As a Software Developer at BWZ you are responsible, together with your team, for the whole development process. Starting with discovering the demands, than planning and detailing the tasks, so you can write the code, and finally test and deploy it.

You will work on our Web Platform team, building and improving UI components, collaborating on technical decisions, and supporting the platform with documentation and fixes.

You will be trained by our Tech Leaders and will be working in one of our tech teams, with team members based in Canada, Brazil and UK, while collaborating with our Design and Content teams.

What you’ll be doing:

Reporting to the Technology Director, working with the Tech Team and working closely with the Design Team. You will be tasked with the development of front-end solutions for our WordPress Platform and services related to it.

Together with all the other Engineers, you will be supporting our Content and Sales Team on customer service for technical issues we might have.

You don’t have to know all the answers, because you will have the time to research and learn new technologies and solutions, so you can make suggestions and implementations that might fit our product needs to better perform and scale.

Who You Are:

You are a Software Developer with 4+ years of experience in web development projects.
You don’t like repetitive tasks, so you automate everything you can.
You are good at managing your own working time.
You are curious about how things are done and how they work.
You like to test new things, you don’t mind if it doesn't work and move on to try something else.
How your success will be measured:
We don’t like to measure effort, rather we try to focus on effectiveness.
You will be accountable for your results, not the hours you worked.
You will be part of a team, collaboration is a key factor.

Your skill set includes:

Curiosity to understand how things work.
An unbridled openness to learning new technology.
Great time-management and prioritization skills.
Openness to learn and use new programming languages.
You are comfortable to read / write documentations from / to others.
Good communication in English.

Required experience:

4+ experience as a software developer working with web applications projects.
Experience developing for WordPress projects.
Solid understanding of WordPress architecture
Experienced creating custom WordPress builds and plugins.
Solid understanding of best practices with CCS/HTML.
Solid understanding of MVC Frameworks.
Solid understanding of Javascript (Vanilla and frameworks).

Nice to haves:

Experience with CD/CI deployments.
Solid understanding of relational databases.
Experience writing tests.

About Us:

Black and White Zebra is a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.

Our brands cover project management, product management, people management, customer experience, quality assurance and others, with the goal of connecting people with the knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally.

We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, we’ve grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 14 online publications. We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.

We’ve recently ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail’s Fastest Growing Company list and received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager—and we’re listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC.

All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we’re creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.

Want to learn more? Watch this video to learn why the team love working at BWZ!

Diversity Equity and Inclusion:

Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran’s status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun!