Mabel’s Labels is hiring a Web Developer
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Mabel’s Labels is a successful and growing e-commerce company that designs, manufactures, markets and sells stylish waterproof labels to identify personal belongings. We sell directly to consumers worldwide through our website, and across North America via fundraisers at schools, daycares, camps and other organizations. Our products are also present in the retail market through Canadian Walmart and Costco stores. Our print environment, website, and manufacturing technology have been built, and are maintained, in-house. We believe in a continuous cycle of exciting projects that are forward thinking and innovative.
At Mabel’s Labels, we have adopted a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) concept. We have created this unique ROWE culture whereby employees are evaluated solely based on their accomplishment of goals; this performance agreement is developed collaboratively between managers and employees. ROWE enables us as an organization to offer the ultimate “work-life balance” plan: we attract and retain high calibre talent by entrusting employees to make effective decisions with regard to their time, in order to achieve successful outcomes both professionally and personally. Mabel’s Labels is the first Canadian company to formally adopt this ROWE engagement strategy.
THE POSITION
The successful candidate will play a key role on developing and maintaining our web applications and e-commerce flows. You will support both IT and company initiatives through the agile development process, code reviews, and system architecture planning. There will be many opportunities to use your knowledge and skills in a high tech environment to be active in our development of new ideas, and new technology.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
– Responsible for creating technical specifications, design, code, unit and integration tests
– Drive complex software design and development, with delivery responsibility through the entire life cycle
– Deliver requirements that are secure, scalable, maintainable, supportable, highly available, comply with PCI standards
– Analyze system design to ensure functional and business requirements are met
– Create and follow web application development standards and best practices including responsive design
– Support web applications by diagnosing and resolving issues
– Participate in initiatives to improve processes, standards and practices
– Educate and mentor developers on web application development
– Participate in establishing plans and estimating work
– Contribute in the feature/product functional design process
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
– Degree or Diploma in Computer Science; equivalent working experience will be considered
– 4-5 years of experience building web applications
– 3-5 years of web services development experience in an e-commerce environment
– Prior experience building and maintaining test plans
– Strong working knowledge of ASP.NET, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and jQuery UI
– Experience in C#, My SQL, Visual Studio 2010 / 2013
– Experience writing SQL queries and familiarity with database design
– Experience with Share Point , WordPress, Agile development practices
– Familiarity with graphic editing applications would be an asset
REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
– Demonstrated success working effectively in a collaborative, team oriented environment
– Strong sense of teamwork and good interpersonal skills
– Entrepreneurial attitude; highly self-motivated and directed
– Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
– Proven decision-making, organizational, planning and problem-solving skills
– Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills
– Exceptional customer service orientation
– Analytical and detail oriented
– Exemplary problem solving and organizational abilities
– Ability to conduct research into emerging Web technologies
– Thorough understanding of application development methodologies and project management principles.
If you meet the above qualifications, and are interested in working for a growing company with an outstanding corporate culture and work environment, please submit your resume along with a brief description of your interest in the role to: resumes@mabel.ca
We thank all applicants for their interest; candidates selected for interview will be contacted.