Sr. Web Developer

About Granicus

Serving the People Who Serve the People

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and their constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers by meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive.

Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn. Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers powering an unmatched Subscriber Network that uses our digital solutions to make the world a better place.

With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

Your Impact

• Work with a CMS Lead Developer to complete client contracts and projects
• Work with CMS Project Manager to receive appropriate application data from clients
• Set up all applications within the CMS tool for each project
• Create CMS admin tools and widgets as required for project
• Test all completed work to ensure proper and error free functionality
• Complete all programming tasks while following company code standards
• Complete and respond to all change requests from client, CMS Project Manager or CMS Lead Developer
• Manage timelines in order to provide on time delivery for all work
• Update all ticket and project notes and statuses daily within the internal SimpleView CRM system
• Maintain accurate time records
• Maintain open communication with CMS Lead Developer and/or CMS Project Manager on all project tasks
• Understand the full lifecycle of a project from creating a new instance of the Simpleview CMS to launching a website.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our starter templates, internal tools, and component libraries via reporting issues and submitting pull requests in GitHub.
• Complete all programming tasks while following company code standards.

You Will Love This Job If You Have

• 2+ years of professional web development experience
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Solid understanding of server-side vs client-side rendering
• Experience using browser developer tools to debug front-end issues with styling and logic errors in JavaScript
• Experience with tools and techniques for optimizing load times, rendering performance, and efficient asset management
• Solid understanding of responsive design, mobile-first development, and cross-browser compatibility
• Experience building and customizing websites on CMS platforms (e.g., WordPress, Drupal, Contentful)
• Experience with no-SQL databases such MongoDB
• Experience with advanced CSS techniques, including, but not limited to Flexbox, Grid, Media/Container Queries, Custom Properties, and animations
• In-depth understanding of modern JavaScript features such as async/await, closures, higher-order functions, and the event loop
• Solid understanding of web performance optimization techniques, including lazy loading, code splitting, and asset optimization
• Solid understanding of Core Web Vitals and the techniques to build with deference to them
• Solid understanding of the principles of progressive enhancement
• Ability to read and interpret error logs to diagnose and resolve issues effectively
• Ability to translate design mockups (e.g., from Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD) into responsive