Sas Developer - Online Community App - Volunteer

We need your skills!

The Caribbean islands are on the front line of climate change.

Help us to provide free knowledge to improve capacity and livelihoods for small-scale Farmers.

Carib.Farm Inc is a fully-remote SaaS social enterprise startup. We are beta testing a digital knowledge sharing community app for small-scale farmers.

http://farmer.community is a one-top-shop, connecting farmers with one another and the power of knowledge.

As the Saas Developer at Carib.Farm, you will work closely with the Marketing and Product teams for implementing and maintaining the user interface of our website and application. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who aims to understand the end user and improve their experience.

This is a fully-remote VOLUNTEER position requiring minimum commitment of 10 hours per week.

In this role you'll get to:

• Continually improve standard web metrics and SEO (i.e., time to paint, page load speed, etc.)
• Develop, maintain, and optimize modern user interfaces for our application using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end technologies.
• Collaborate with UX/Product designers to translate wireframes and mock-ups into functional and visually appealing web pages.
• Implement, use and maintain the Farmer.community digital community app and content library.
• Build new web pages, optimize existing ones, maintain the backend health of the site, and maintain/update themes, plugins, and security updates.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of new front-end web development technologies and apply them to enhance the usability and efficiency of the website.
• Ensure that our website is responsive and optimized for search engines.

What we're looking for:

• Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues, client-side performance considerations, and CDN caching strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining excellent attention to detail
• 2+ years of experience working with a modern frontend stack (JS, React, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience implementing and maintaining Components Libraries and/or Design Systems.
• Highly proficient in HTML, CSS, HTML5 and and JavaScript
• Ability to construct modern and clean designs that focus on content
• Experience with architectural work involving performance optimization with SEO.
• 3-5 years of experience in web development manipulating and fully customizing CMS themes
• Expert knowledge of responsive websites using CSS preprocessors like Less, Sass.

Before you apply you should:

• Read about our vision and goals (http://www.carib.farm) or watch a product overview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZuD3aKQ4X4&t=2s)
• Learn about (https://www.farmer.community) our all volunteer team