Senior Web Developer, Turnitin
HTML, CSS, Node.js
Plagiarism detection software
Job no longer available
Plagiarism detection software
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Turnitin's mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 6 years full-stack experience building high traffic enterprise level web applications
- Very strong Front-End skills including HTML, CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript
- Back-end experience with Node.js (or similar) along with creating and consuming REST APIs
- Advanced knowledge of agile web development, architecture, Jira, Git, Gulp, CDNs, mobile performance, and martech integrations
- Debugging experience to resolve code defects. Understanding of page performance and website vitals
- Solid understanding of CMS Best Practices and guidelines, including experience developing CMS functionality, working within decoupled and headless architectures along with encapsulated design
- Experience with responsive design, including grid layout and mobile-first development
- Experience translating design files (Figma, Adobe Xd) into functional components
- Working knowledge of global data privacy regulations (GDPR and CCPA). Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG AA rating). Knowledge of SEO and security best practices
- Strong communication, project management and collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders. A team player with a customer-centric focus
- Experience with Crownpeak / FirstSpirit CMS, Wordpress, Pardot, and Google Solutions (Analytics, Tag Manager, Search Console, Optimize, Data Studio, Keyword Planner) is a plus
What the job involves
- As a member of our global web strategy team, you will be primarily responsible for delivering a world-class web experience for our customers. You will manage all aspects of developing, testing, maintaining, and optimizing brand aligned experiences across a portfolio of website properties
- In addition, you will lead and execute website projects that involve a variety of cross-functional teams
- In addition to providing technical leadership within our web strategy team, you will collaborate with a variety of internal cross-functional stakeholders as well as external vendor resources
- Web Development:
- Write readable, testable, and maintainable code that creates best-in-class brand aligned experiences (mobile & desktop) across an assigned portfolio of web properties
- Establishes the team’s best practices for analyzing user stories, articulating right-sized solutions, and project management. Ability to mentor junior web developers
- Ensure that our web properties support Turnitin’s go-to-market strategy by translating corporate objectives into a web roadmap while collaborating with internal stakeholders including corporate marketing, regional marketing, product marketing, engineering, operations, security, alliances, legal, and sales
- Supervise the integration of our web properties with a variety of platforms including marketing automation, personalization, journey orchestration, social media, data lake, and ABM (account based marketing). Maintain existing legacy web properties
- Lead, collaborate, and execute website projects with a variety of non-technical internal cross-functional stakeholders
- Analyze & Experiment:
- Continuously improve the UI/UX, functionality, speed, and scalability across our web ecosystem
- Establish the team’s best practices for performing A/B and multivariate tests to improve engagement, conversion rates, and ABM tactics
- Contribute to the analytics framework, including establishing KPIs, creating dashboards to track and analyze development sprints, user engagement, website performance and quality
- Help to create a test-and-learn team culture to understand our customer’s needs, behaviors, satisfaction, and experience gaps
Our take
Turnitin has a global reputation for being one of the best plagiarism detection softwares on the market. It’s well-earned, too. Besides simple paraphrasing plagiarism, its software also employs sophisticated techniques like identifying macro replacement and analysing metadata to weed out essay mill papers.
Academic plagiarism has become increasingly complex over the years, exacerbated in part by the COVID period of online schooling, and in part by a skyrocketing rise in computer literacy and plagiarism tricks. Software like Turnitin is therefore playing an increasingly crucial role in maintaining academic integrity. Additionally, it helps understaffed institutions ease the burden placed on a teaching workforce which are, in some regions, perilously close to collapse.
Turnitin is not without its issues, however. Some institutions lean too heavily on the software, and essay mills have begun using Turnitin software to prove product authenticity. Historically, Turnitin has neatly addressed these problems by releasing new or improved capabilities including Chat GPT screening updates in 2023. If it can continue to demonstrate remarkable competence and proactive development in this regard, Turnitin’s glowing reputation seems assured.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Supplemental Life Insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Chris Caren
(CEO)Held a number of senior positions at major corporations, including serving as a GM at Microsoft, and a board member at Avetta, Liaison International, Illuminate Education, and The IRONMAN Group. They are additionally a member of YPO and chairman of Procare Solutions.
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