No matter where youre located, wed love to have you join our mission of providing world-class digital marketing solutions to mid-size businesses on a global scale. We thrive on driving business growth for our clients and are looking for people who take pride in their marketing efforts and enjoy having fun at the same time. Sound like you? Great! Keep reading:
Why Choose WebFX
For 9 years in a row, WebFX has been named the #1 Best Place to Work in Pennsylvania, which is our headquarters home state! As a company, we pride ourselves on being able to offer the same culture and benefits to our global team members. In addition to very competitive base pay, we offer company profit-sharing, performance bonuses, and health insurance (including dental, vision, remote doctor, etc.). To aid in your success, we provide world-class digital marketing training (Organic SEO, Local SEO, PPC, Google Analytics + Studio, etc.), long-term career track opportunities, and ongoing learning bonuses (yes, you can get paid to learn!), along with numerous other benefits!
Read below to learn about some of the benefits you can expect when working with WebFX:
- No matter where you are located or your position, WebFX offers long-term stability to all of our FXFamily members. In fact, many of our global team members have been with WebFX for 10+ years, and were hoping you can be too!
- We put our people first; its as simple as that. Youre never on your own - when you run into inevitable challenges, were there to support you along the way!
- Long-lasting relationships with both clients and team members due to consistently low turnover rates, which are simply unheard of in our industry because, again, we put our people first
- When you join WebFX, you dont just join a company; you join a community! We value all of our team members the same, regardless of their position or where they call home. We truly look forward to learning about you and your background, and we will be there to celebrate the milestones in your life together, no matter how big or small!
- Invitation to our annual FXFest an all-expenses paid trip for our international team members (with a 1-year tenure) to our company headquarters. The week-long event is filled with activities, learning, and motivation to help unite our U.S. and global staff!
- Fully equipped in-office setup including computer, dual large monitors, headset, seriously fast internet, generator, and more!
- Be part of a rapidly growing company that, at the same time, only partners with clients who share our values.
- Unrestricted access to our dozens of proprietary software/platforms our internal R&D team has developed for our teams exclusive use, in addition to access to the many 3rd party tools and software we utilize internally in order to WOW our clients. You can learn more about just some of our proprietary tools here
- Merit-based promotional structure
- Annual merit-based compensation increases!
- We have a very strong commitment to giving back globally - in fact, its one of our values here at WebFX. As a member of our FXFamily, you get to be a large part of that simply by achieving your goals - since 2014, weve committed to donating globally through our FXBuilds program. You can learn more about that here!
World-Class Training and Ongoing Career Development
- No matter your level of experience, our Bootcamp web marketing training program is provided for all new WebFX family members to learn, grow and develop in and out of the office with the hard skills necessary to be successful in their position
- From training with our Sr Digital Marketers to access to countless industry-leading online training resources/courses/tutorials to getting experience with nearly 1, 500+ different clients with various platforms, digital services, and in every industry you can think of (and then some), our training program is simply unrivaled!
- Training doesnt stop after your initial training period. We offer career development training and monthly Lunch-and-Learns with our state-of-the-art training amenities to facilitate departmental trainings, industry-related updates, and more!
- FXLearns program where you get incentives for taking advantage of our countless industry training resources
- After 1, 500+ clients, weve been able to truly master our processes and procedures you will be trained on all of those - no need to develop how to do things (unless you want to help us continually improve that process!) because we refuse to ever stagnate, we are always pushing the envelope to make those processes 1% better too!
WebFX grew 250%+ over the past 3 years both locally and globally, and merit-based promotional opportunities are abundant if you're meeting or exceeding position performance metrics. We believe in growing and promoting our internal team first and foremost. In fact, 95% of our promotions are internal! All team members have a very clearly defined progression path, so you know exactly what is expected of you so you can put your career in your own hands. And whats more, youre not expected to know it all - we believe in continually striving to be an expert in your subject matter of expertise so while we will purposely challenge you to grow in SEO/PPC/Google Analytics, we are a full-service agency that has experts in other departments that handle everything else - from link building, social media, web design, and web development. So you can truly master your trade.
Our goal is to hire on 50+ team members over the next 36 months in South Africa, and we've recently opened our office in Cape Town to help us achieve this goal.
What You'll Do
WebFX developers typically work on 25+ projects per year, so there is a high level of variety in work and two days are never the same!
Our web-based projects use a variety of frameworks selected on a per-project basis. Some of the more popular frameworks our team leverages in projects are WordPress, Magento, Bootstrap, Zend Framework 2, and Google Functions. Training will be provided on all of our core platforms, tools and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and participate in the programming, implementation, testing, and support of web-based projects using modern frameworks such as React.js and Feathers for Node.js
- Program, develop, and produce data-driven web applications, websites, and mobile apps using the latest technology solutions and software
- Consult with clients and the account team to ensure the use of effective Internet-based technologies for enterprise business applications
- Debug and problem solve across a wide variety of open-source and mobile platforms
- 45% maintenance and debugging
- 40% building new functionality
- 10% consulting with other team members and clients
- 5% planning and quoting new functionality
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related discipline is preferred
- Pre-employment testing is required
- Fluent in English (written and verbal). Resume must be in English to be considered
- Comfortable with both object-oriented and procedural programming methodologies
- Strong knowledge of database design and troubleshooting (MySQL, MongoDB)
- Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and best practices
- Qualities
- Passion for web development
- Likes to get things done
- Commitment to delivering high-quality and defect-free projects to clients
- Ability to work well in a high-concurrency environment (many projects)
- Capable of individual deep work as well as the ability to collaborate with a team to complete projects rapidly
- Strong time-management skills and can meet deadlines consistently
- Takes direction well, but also able to make decisions and take initiative
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Up-to-date on the latest web technologies
- Professional, dependable, solid work ethic, detail-oriented, dedication to quality, self-motivated
- Enjoys solving problems
- Customer-centric mentality
- At least 2+ years of working web development experience (not just side projects)
- Solid project-level experience with at least one open-source CMS platform such as WordPress, Shopify, Joomla, Drupal, etc
- Web-based programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, HTML)
- Mobile app development and/or React Native
- Node.js
- Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
- OOP and procedural programming methodologies
- Standard Compliant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- CSS Frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Foundation, Intuit)
- JS Frameworks (e.g. jQuery, React.js, Vue, Backbone)
- Git Version control (or other version control software)
- Package management and Task Runners (e.g. NPM, Yarn, Gulp, Grunt)
- Browser testing abilities using built in developer tools
- E-commerce solutions and be well-versed in e-commerce methodologies and best practices
- Previous development firm/agency environment
- A Plus if you have - TensorFlow and Machine Learning Experience
This position requires 40-45 hours per week, ideally during our standard office hours (6am to 2:30pm EST)
Compensation
Negotiable, based on experience
Annual merit-based increases
Working Hours and Location
We're currently looking for full-time team members who are able to work in our Cape Town office and the hours outlined below.
Office Locations:
Cape Town Office: 114 Bree St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
Work Hours:
Monday through Thursday: 10:00 AM -7:30 PM SAST
Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM SAST
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Please submit a resume or CV (in English) to be considered for this opportunity.
- You don't need to apply more than once, even if you're interested in multiple positions - you can simply let us know! We consider all open roles when reviewing resumes and applications!
