Junior Frontend Developer

Junior Frontend Developer

Waybetter Marketing is a marketing agency based in Columbia, Maryland. We're currently seeking candidates with a few years of postgraduate experience creating highly usable web experiences within commuting distance.

What You'll Get

• Competitive salary + bonus
• Hybrid schedule (whole team works remotely on Wednesdays and Fridays)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) with a guaranteed 3% profit sharing
• 15 days PTO plus numerous company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend
• Free snacks

What You’ll Do

As a Junior Frontend Developer on our team, you'll be instrumental in helping to build a dynamic, intuitive student engagement hub designed to drive interaction, boost enrollment, and maximize retention through a seamless and compelling user experience.

• Developing engaging, student-facing webpages with a mobile-first approach
• Partnering with AI coding tools to accelerate development, generate code suggestions, and optimize frontend performance
• Ensuring technical feasibility and practical implementation of UI/UX designs
• Optimizing webpages for maximum speed, scalability, and maintainability
• Troubleshooting, building, and maintaining highly reusable, modular code libraries to accelerate future projects
• Conducting thorough quality assurance (QA) testing to ensure accuracy, usability, and visual fidelity across devices and browsers

This Role is Right for You if Have

• Proven experience as a front-end developer building dynamic, scalable webpages
• Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and SCSS
• Deep understanding of the full web development lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment)
• Comfort working alongside AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to write, review, and refine code efficiently
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to delivering pixel-perfect, accurate, and reusable code
• Familiarity with Git version control workflows
• Knowledge of responsive, mobile-first, and accessibility development principles

Why You Want to Work at Waybetter

We are a team of passionate marketers and technologists dedicated to helping colleges and universities increase their student enrollment. We’re an established, agile company poised for continued (and considerable!) growth. We work really hard but also believe in a healthy work-life balance. At Waybetter, you’ll find our clients are genuinely grateful for what we do!

Take a peek at our crew: https://www.waybettermarketing.com/about/

Need something beyond a picture? Hear us speak from this sampling of webinars: https://www.waybettermarketing.com/webinars/

Only applicants in the Baltimore/DC region will be considered. Long-term remote work arrangements are not available.