JAZD Markets is based in Andover, MA.? JAZD is lead by Founder and CEO, Jamie Bedard (Celebrated Turnaround CEO of Aberdeen Group) with significant financial investments by Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Pilot House Ventures.? The company combines an innovative product directory platform with user surveys, product analysis, vendor marketing micro-sites, on-line display advertising, opt-in lead generation, social networking and comprehensive search engine optimization into an innovative Marketing as a Service (MaaS) directory platform.? Advertisers can measure and optimize the value from their on-line marketing spend and product buyers can get real insights, comparisons and peer referrals into the products and vendors that they are considering.?
Roles and Responsibilities
The JAZD Web Developer is the company’s primary resource for HTML development across various company properties: the SaaS directory platform, blogging and CMS systems, and the company’s corporate web site.? As such, the resource gets input from UI designers, content producers and engineering and produces engaging, elegant and SEO-ready front-end HTML that drives the JAZD business.?
A strong emphasis on SEO experience and CSS expertise is required to ensure that all resulting HTML is easy to maintain and fully accessible to search engines.?
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Platform Page Development – Convert Photoshop and Illustrator-based interface design specifications into HTML with supporting CSS.? Work with the Java engineers to integrate the resulting HTML into the dynamic page generation system via the Freemarker page template engine.?
- Corporate Website Development – Assist in the design and fully own the implementation of the JAZD Corporate Website.?
- Content Systems Development – Assist in the design and fully own the implementation of content publishing that is integrated with the JAZD directory platform.?
The individual in this role is also expected to contribute to the overall Engineering team as needed in the quality assurance of any platform release, and with coding tasks on the platform as skills allow.?
Required Skills and Experience
The person filling this role must have the following skills:
- Excellent HTML development skills with experience working in a SaaS development environment.?
- Very strong expertise in CSS with the ability to make full use of hierarchical styles.?
- Deep experience building websites that are SEO-ready, with some experience actually running SEO campaigns and optimizing site content for search engines.?
- A strong pride in the quality of their own work product and a desire create great software.?
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