Join Our Team - Opus Design

Agency Overview & Open Positions

Opus is a B-Corp certified brand strategy and creative services agency partnering with inspiring clients all over the world. While we spend a lot of our time in Education, Non-Profit, and Food & Beverage, we serve well-intentioned organizations of all different sizes across many industries. We embrace our clients’ goals as our guide to ensure that everything we create for each client is both aesthetically exceptional and strategically effective.

Opus is an equal opportunity employer. Opus celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals, parents, immigrants, anyone with different abilities, and those who are system-impacted are particularly encouraged to apply. Opus values creativity, curiosity, caring, collaboration, commitment, and productivity, and is dedicated to the ongoing development of every team member.

Development Practice Lead

We are looking to add an exceptional developer to lead our creative, collaborative, and fun development team. They will also be supporting continuous process improvement initiatives for our development practice. In addition to leading the development team, the Development Practice Lead will be responsible for developing responsive and accessible Drupal and WordPress themes based on design mockups, focusing on front- and backend development, configurations, and content migrations.

US-based applicants only, please.

Reports to: UX & digital director

Responsibilities:

Development team leadership:
- Performance reviews
- Code reviews
- Process leadership
- Documentation
- Professional development support and mentoring
- Resource planning and allocation
- Promote productivity and profitability
Develop responsive and accessible Drupal and WordPress websites focusing on front-end and back-end development, configurations, and content migrations.
Collaborate with the UX and design teams to plan technical execution and support writing technical and functional specifications.
Implement design mockups to fully functional themes with extreme attention to detail
Migrate content from existing websites to new websites
Implement common integrations with WordPress and Drupal sites which will be identified during discovery and UX. Examples are: email communication tools (Mailchimp etc), RSS feeds, calendar tools, authentication tools (Kerberos, MIT Touchstone, etc), Salesforce, databases, etc
Manage time and stakeholder expectations by setting and consistently meeting deadlines
Maintain and implement excellent coding standards
Lead, collaborate, and coordinate with team of developers
Participate in client meetings to discuss development approaches/site functionality and design implications
Troubleshoot browser/device inconsistencies and perform cross-browser reconciliation
Produce 100% valid and bug-free code
Lead creating guidelines and processes for digital project management, asset creation, development, delivery, and archiving
Deploy websites when ready for launch, coordinate hosting as needed
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, action-oriented environment
Technical strategy: plan for best practices and new technology
Business development support for pitches and estimates
Understand and support overall business perspective

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Experience developing custom themes, modules/plugins for WordPress and Drupal, our focus is WordPress
Fluency in HTML5, CSS3, SCSS/SASS, PHP, Twig, JavaScript (JQuery)
Min. 7 years of experience
BS in Computer Science or related field
Experience with developing accessible websites
Advanced Git skills and respective branching strategies
Basic knowledge of Search Engine Optimization process
Ability to customize Drupal and WordPress with minimal use of modules and plug-ins
Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), data manipulation with SQL-queries.
Natural curiosity for emerging trends and technologies, and willingness to learn and share
Motivated, reliable self-starter
Smart problem-solver, strategic thinker with an ability to “figure stuff out”
Good judgement calls about the balance between doing it right and getting it done and advise the team in decision making
Ability to navigate and succeed in a fast-paced, action-oriented environment
Other items, helpful but not required
- Interest in good design and learning about design
- Knowledge of Figma
- Experience working with education, nonprofit, or food industry
- Experience working with/leading a team of developers
- Experience with Pantheon platform
- Testing automation
Comfortable using and configuring project management tools
GitHub actions and automated workflows
Understanding of security practices

Benefits:

Location and work model

We support a flexible-location work model. You may choose to work from our studio in Boston, remotely, or a hybrid that is best for you. We only require in-person attendance at our studio 6-8 times per year for 2-3 days at a time. These sessions, which are all scheduled well in advance, keep us all connected by combining working sessions, group discussions, and fun activities.

Annual Salary: Depends on experience

Apply

Please apply with a cover letter, resume, and portfolio sites to sgidionsen@opusdesign.us.
We look forward to hearing from you!

Senior Full Stack Developer

We are looking to add an exceptional developer to our creative, collaborative, and fun team. The developer will be responsible for implementing responsive and accessible Drupal and WordPress themes based on design mockups. The developer will be our go-to for Drupal and back-end development, configurations, and content migrations. The developer will also be supporting continuous process improvement initiatives for our development practice.