Junior Developer - NSCC Placement

VERB is a digital marketing agency located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our global clients offer the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s biggest destinations, resorts, and travel brands—and with our employee travel credit, it’s easy to experience them for yourself. We take a balanced approach to work/life and have fun at the office– or wherever we happen to be working from. We are passionate about exceeding expectations and we thrive on jobs other agencies might find too big, or too difficult, or too fast

Sound good? Great, here’s who we’re looking for…

A Junior Developer’s focus is on learning how to navigate within the CMS, while also learning the overall VERB

process of website building. They design components, work on templating, and configure and design layouts.

What You Will Do...

• Create and maintain components of web-based platforms
• Create website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Participate in regular project stand-ups and sprint reviews
• Accurately produce frontend components using creative mock-ups
• Populate content in a variety of frameworks
• Identify and communicate opportunities for improving builds/process to Dev team
• Track projects and record time sheets using Jira
• Collaborate in a team environment and take direction from leadership

• 0-3 years of professional experience 
• Post-secondary education with a focus in IT, web development or equivalent experience
• Proficient with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Comfortable using CLI 
• Basic Git knowledge and experience with branching and merging processes
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• The ability to communicate project, task status and any issues to internal and external stakeholders
• Highly organized with the ability to function in a fast-paced business environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate in a team environment
• Self-directed troubleshooting abilities
• Eagerness to grow and learn, and demonstrates excitement about the job and its challenges

Our benefits are anything but basic, with vacation time available on day one (not to mention an extra bonus week during the holidays), an annual travel credit (for non-work related travel), and free office snacks and drinks to keep you energized when you’re around.

In addition, we offer the following and are consistently looking for new ways to enhance the benefits we offer to our team:

• 100% premium share option for Group Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision), with a health spending account to top up your claims
• A wellness spending account
• Company matching RRSP program
• Top up for Parental/Pregnancy leave
• Remote and flexible work arrangements
• Transit and fitness discounts
• Recreational sports teams
• Learning and development opportunities with a multitude of resources
• Internal recognition programs