Lead Web Developer

Our newsrooms publish thousands of stories a day across print, broadcast and digital.

The role:

The Lead Web Developer builds and maintains our marketing website and landing pages, mostly on WordPress. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Los Angeles office Tuesday to Thursday.

Your responsibilities:

• Launch campaign landing pages on short deadlines
• Integrate forms with HubSpot, Marketo or Salesforce
• Turn Figma designs into responsive HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Optimize page speed, image sizes and Core Web Vitals
• Troubleshoot broken pages, forms and third-party scripts

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional web development experience
• Able to manage several small requests alongside larger projects
• Experience building responsive, cross-browser layouts
• Basic understanding of web hosting, DNS and SSL
• PHP and WordPress theme or plugin development, or Shopify Liquid
• Familiarity with SEO fundamentals and analytics tagging
• Portfolio or links to live sites you built

Nice to have:

• Webflow or HubSpot CMS
• Headless CMS experience (Contentful, Sanity, Strapi)
• React or Vue

Compensation: $153,000 - $178,000/year

What we offer:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Paid sick leave
• Hybrid work

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at The Los Angeles Times LLC.