Mid Level FullStack Developer

Company Overview:

Global Technology Services is a rapidly expanding organization situated in Medellín, Colombia. We pride ourselves on possessing one of the most influential networks within software development and IT services for the entertainment, financial, and logistics sectors. Our corporate projections offer a multitude of opportunities for professionals to elevate their careers and experience substantial growth. Joining our team means engaging with expansive engineering teams across Latin America, Philippines and the United States, contributing to cutting-edge developments in multiple industries.

Position Title: FullStack Developer

Category: Software Engineering & Architecture

Seniority: Mid

Location: LATAM

What you will be doing:

We are seeking a FullStack /CMS / Squiz Matrix Developer to build, operate, and continuously improve a portfolio of client websites and digital experiences. The role combines hands-on CMS development, front-end engineering, platform administration, integrations, accessibility, and operational support.

The successful candidate will work closely with the, client stakeholders, content editors, and platform support teams to ensure the CMS environment is secure, reliable, accessible, maintainable, and easy to use.

Squiz Matrix experience is not required. We are looking for a developer with strong underlying web development and CMS engineering skills who can become productive on the Matrix platform within one to two months of training.

Responsibilities

Build on the platform

• Develop and maintain designs, paint layouts, nested content, asset listings and keyword replacements across the client's sites

• Build reusable front-end components, including through the Squiz Component Service.

• Design metadata schemas, triggers and workflows that let editors publish safely and consistently

• Integrate Matrix with the client's systems, such as single sign-on, search, forms, analytics and external APIs

Run the environment

• Manage the release path across development, test and production, including change records and rollback

• Manage users, groups and permissions, and run periodic access reviews

• Respond to incidents and service requests within agreed service levels, including the agreed cover of Australian business hours, and work with Squiz support on platform issues

• Keep sites accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA and fix what audits and Content Health checks find

Improve it over time

• Keep a prioritised backlog of platform debt and agree priorities with the lead

• Document how the environment is built and run, so another engineer can pick it up

• Train and support content editors, and spot where a template change would save them repeated effort

• Give the lead estimates for new work and flag anything outside the agreed scope early

Required Skills & Experience

• [3+] years building and supporting production websites

• Solid HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including responsive layouts and modern front-end tooling

• Templating and content modelling in any CMS, such as WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Umbraco or a headless CMS

• Experience setting up user roles, permissions and publishing workflows for content editors

• Some server-side scripting in PHP or Node.js, and working with REST APIs and JSON

• Git, multiple environments, and a disciplined release and change process

• Production support: diagnosing faults from logs, handling incidents and writing them up

• Practical accessibility skills against WCAG 2.2 AA

• Familiarity with single sign-on concepts such as SAML or OpenID Connect

• Willingness to work [agreed overlap hours] with Australian clients