Full Stack Web Developer II

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We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

Make your mark on the history of space exploration! We are seeking software engineers to join our Consumer Systems team that will support software solutions development for our Sales and Marketing group.

As the member of this new software team, you will work with users and business experts to implement key technology initiatives.

Successful candidates will be detail driven, and have excellent problem-solving abilities and communication skills. Experience using and delivering marketing technology assets used by commercial space companies is a plus. You should be passionate about delivering a positive experience for internal customers and quickly working towards quality software solutions while contributing to team development through continuous process improvement, and mentorship.

Who we are:

We are founding a web development team to support the timely, accurate, and highly immersive engagement of the general public through our web presence. Our team will focus on building extraordinary digital experiences that shares and expands our vision of millions of people living and working in space! We are tenacious and dedicated to ensuring all of Blue Origin’s events, announcements, communications, and experiences deliver the highest quality, most engaging digital experience possible.

What you’ll Do:

You will research, plan, and implement the future of Blue Origin websites and web content, while providing extraordinary engagement for our current audiences today. Working with partners across the business, you will learn what the primary needs, messages, and desires are in our web presence, and plan and build an outstanding web platform that allows immersive, creative, and speedy delivery of Blue Origin news and content to the world. You will work in a high-energy, fast-paced communications environment, directly impacting the public's experience with Blue Origin.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in exciting announcements and events by updating Blue Origin’s current web presence using our Content Management System (CMS), participating in and supporting new website deployments, and providing maintenance of the web platform

• Evaluate our current user engagement using data to understand the effectiveness of our current products

• Working with technology and communications leadership, research, architect, and plan future Digital Asset Management solutions to grow Blue’s capabilities in our asset management practices

• Meet regularly with sales and communications partners to ensure that current content meets the strategic needs of the business

• Evaluate current site visitors’ behavior and patterns to support improved engagement and user experience

• Analyze and manage current search engine optimization (SEO) issues and efforts to support increased public engagement

• Create and maintain new and existing pages within our current CMS to support ongoing communications

• Develop and implement new features within our current CMS (PHP based) to meet ongoing partner needs

• Travel and off hours support may be required to support Blue Origin events

Qualifications: 

• Undeniable passion for space and space communication!

• At least 2years of demonstrated experience developing, delivering, and maintaining web experiences (PHP, AWS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, etc.)

• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals like algorithms and common data structures.

• Ability to solve problems by writing efficient working code, even when given incomplete or ambiguous requirements.

• Solid communication skills; open to the opinions of others, and willing to own mistakes.

• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion 

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. 

Desired:

• We deploy infrastructure on-premises and to Amazon Web Services using systems like git, Docker, and Kubernetes. Let us know if you have too!

• Some of our applications include rich user experiences in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, using frameworks like React. If you've built these, share your experiences with us.

• We learn from and guide each other. Share your experience mentoring software engineers in a team setting, including design and code review.

• Experience owning and operating Content Management Systems (Wordpress, Drupal, Statamic, etc.)

• Knowledge of Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or other web analytics and user metric platforms workforce

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation range for on site CO applicants is $99,000-$145,200

Compensation range for on site WA applicants is $108,000-$158,400

Compensation range for on site CA applicants is $108,000-$158,400

Other site ranges may differ

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here and here.

Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.

Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.

Paid Time Off:  Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays

Discretionary bonus programs