Engineer II - Web Development

Verisign•Reston, VA

4d•$89,900 - $121,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Verisign is looking for a junior engineer to expand the Verisign Web Marketing Development team. This role involves building and managing high visibility websites that are informational and educational in nature, with a priority on creating performant UX components and templates. The candidate will be involved in all aspects of product development, including ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution, often requiring cross-team collaboration with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Security, and Operations teams. The Web Marketing team operates customer-facing web applications and static sites, including the corporate site (verisign.com), product/campaign sites, and a public blog. The team is working towards unifying these sites under a common framework, toolset, and design system for component reuse. They also manage their infrastructure in the public cloud and are responsible for its maintenance and improvement. The team manages front-end components, site templates, themes, Web Components, and a git-based content editing workflow. The team operates like an internal startup with extensive technical ownership, involving all members in most product development phases and allowing flexibility between focus areas. They follow Agile Development methodology with daily Scrums, Jira for ticket prioritization, internal GitHub for code, pull request code reviews, and use Jenkins with pipelines for continuous delivery, with automated deployments via Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.

Requirements

Expertise in JavaScript
Frontend web development experience: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript
Ability to optimize webpage loading and rendering
Working knowledge of at least one version control system: Git, SVN, etc.
Experience with common website toolchains and dependencies: npm, webpack/babel, prettier, postCSS, etc.
Familiarity with UNIX-like operating systems
Demonstration of understanding of Secure Coding standards.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
Eager to learn new technologies
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 2+ years software development experience or a Master’s degree with hands-on software development work experience through demonstrable projects or internships or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

StencilJS
Astro
Tailwind CSS
Jest
Enzyme
Mocha
BrowserStack
StoryBook
Playwright
Selenium
Puppeteer
AWS Public cloud services including Cloudfront, S3 and Route53
Scrum methodology
Bash scripting
Python scripting
Docker
Git
Jenkins
Gradle
Yarn
Ansible
Terraform
CDN configuration/management experience
Familiarity with additional languages and technologies (AWS/Cloud, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Bash)
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including core Computer Science concepts
Hands-on problem-solving experience building software systems

Responsibilities

Build and manage high visibility websites that are informational and educational.
Create performant UX components and templates.
Be involved in all aspects of product development including ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Security, and Operations teams.
Provide technical contributions and work collaboratively with other team members.
Maintain and improve public cloud infrastructure.
Manage front-end components, site templates, themes, and Web Components.
Utilize a git-based content editing workflow.
Participate in daily Scrums.
Conduct pull request code reviews.
Utilize Jenkins with pipelines for continuous delivery.
Automate product deployments with Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.