Front End (UX) Developer

: HC Brands specializes in customizing and selling thousands of products that help our customers make connections. We are a fast, profitable, growing ecommerce company that markets ourselves through a wide range of ecommerce channels and marketplaces. We take pride in offering products that are unique and that help each of our customers develop meaningful connections in their personal and professional lives. Our Front End (UX) Developer at HC Brands is pivotal in ensuring the company's digital presence is both compelling and user-friendly, directly influencing the company's growth and success in the e-commerce landscape. *THIS POSITION REQUIRES YOU TO WORK IN OUR OFFICE IN JACKSONVILLE, FL 4 DAYS/WEEK. 1 DAY/WEEK REMOTE. * That's where you come in. You must be highly adaptable, capable of rapidly responding to changes in technology and user expectations to ensure the platform remains cutting-edge and user-friendly. You should possess strong collaborative skills, ready to work closely with product managers, designers, and developers to translate complex requirements into intuitive web solutions. Additionally, a robust technical foundation in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and contemporary frameworks like React, coupled with a keen eye for design and user experience, is essential to excel in creating seamless interfaces.

What you'll do:

• Develop and implement user interface designs using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in a React framework.
• Collaborate with product management to create solutions for real-world problems, enhancing the overall user experience on the e-commerce platform.
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code that complies with modern web standards and best practices.
• Work closely with UX designers to translate design concepts into functional and engaging web applications.
• Respond swiftly to marketing requests, ensuring timely updates and feature implementations to support business objectives.
• Participate in the full development lifecycle, including planning, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Employ user testing feedback to refine and improve the user interface and experience.
• Maintain and update the existing product UI and content management system to ensure consistency and relevance.
• Actively contribute to the team's knowledge sharing, innovation, and technology adoption practices.

To do well in this role you'll need to have:

• Have a Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in client-side app development (jQuery/HTML/CSS, REST, JSON).
• 3+ years crafting JavaScript web applications and UI components.
• 2+ years with AngularJS, Bootstrap, NodeJS, Compass, or similar.
• Proficiency with Github for distributed source control.
• Comfort with all SDLC phases and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Above all else though, my advice for anyone looking to work at HC Brands is very simple; you have to want to be here. It won't be enough to show up to the interview and be capable. We are a small company with extremely talented people who creatively solve unique problems as they arise. There will be times when we all just have to take a deep breath and dig deep to get the job done. We're looking for talented people with the appetite for that challenge. Do your homework. Look at our website, our blogs, and our products. Get to understand what we're about, and come to the interview with that insight ready to tell us how you could play a part in that success.

Benefits:

We care deeply about making HC Brands an amazing place to work, and invest a significant amount of time and energy into creating and maintaining a company culture that provides our team with a level of support while inspiring them to do their best work. The specific benefits we offer include:

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 8 paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• 401(k) plan with a company match on the first 5% contribution
• 16 paid hours of community service time off
• 50% employee discount on our products
• Bonus potential if the company meets all performance targets

Beyond the tangible benefits though:

• You will be part of a growing team whose purpose is to create a culture that underscores connections with employees, customers, businesses, and each other. While we're in the business of personalization, we also exist in a society where individual interactions are harder and harder to come by. In response to this challenge, we've made it our mission at HC Brands to prioritize people and relationships—one custom order at a time. It's not just a clever blurb on our website or a catchy acronym we pass around the office. It's what we do, and more importantly, it's who we are.

Equal Employment Opportunity Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at HC Brands. HC Brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. HC Brands is committed to creating and maintaining a workplace in which all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. This commitment is embodied in the company policy and the way we do business at HC Brands and is an important principle of sound business management.

About HC Brands

At HC Brands, our mission is to design and manufacture the highest quality and most innovative personalized products for both home, professional and business use. With our cutting edge web technology, we aim to provide an easy user experience to fully customize any product we offer. We are committed to the customer's total satisfaction and providing exceptional customer service, just like we've been doing since 1954. We also aim to have the fastest turnaround time on personalized products with most shipping the next business day.