Contact: alex.kozovski@macmillan.com
Macmillan Higher Education is a confederation of these unique publishing houses: Bedford/St. Martin’s, W.H. Freeman & Company and Worth Publishers. Focusing on the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences/math and custom publishing, each of the three companies pursues its own independent publishing program. Each boasts in its portfolio a number of landmark books, as well as innovative multimedia products, and each is known throughout the educational publishing world for superior content development and production. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. The successful candidate for this position will become an employee of Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC, d/b/a Macmillan Higher Education.
The Organization
Our organization is a global leader in learning and discovery and our technology plays a fundamental part in helping people achieve great things. That doesn’t just mean interesting things. It means important, life-changing things like changing the way students learn, teachers teach and scientists discover. We need talented people to join our Technology organization to help shape and deliver global enterprise solutions.
An exciting opportunity has arisen and we are now seeking an experienced Front End Developer to join our technology team based in New York.
The Role
* Working with in house Designers to align designs/wireframes with technical feasibility and sensitivity to system constraints
• Understands key web development concepts through experiences such as:
• Interpreting graphic visual or interaction designs in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Creating visually appealing web pages or interfaces.
• Creating, editing or modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework.
• Programming interaction with JavaScript and/or a library such as jQuery
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Experience in performing unit, Integration, and functional testing
• Experience with software configuration best practices (continuous integration, source control, etc.)
• Experience with Git workflow and branching strategies
• Ability to work efficiently in teams and/or independently
• Ability to successfully work in a fast paced, changing environment
• Ability and desire to learn new skills quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the desire to work in a team environment across organization functional boundaries
Domain specific knowledge or transferable skills
• Experience with web development languages:
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript (REACT Desirable)
• JQuery
• Ajax
Experience with .Net and C# desirable.
Creative Agency experience desirable.
