Porter Airlines has revolutionized short-haul flying with a warm and effortless approach to hospitality, restoring glamour and refinement to air travel. Porter is an Official 4 Star Airline® in the World Airline Star Rating®.
The airline currently offers flights to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, Halifax, St. John’s, Stephenville, N.L, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, Windsor, New York (Newark), Chicago (Midway), Boston and Washington (Dulles), and has seasonal flights to Mt. Tremblant, Que., Muskoka, Ont., and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
FUNCTION: Reporting to the Manager, Customer Experience Systems Development, this position will be part of an agile development team, taking part in web initiatives from conception to post-production. This role is key to Porter’s business development by developing and supporting web technology initiatives. The position calls for someone who is passionate and motivated to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and feels.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Build responsive and elegant websites that meet usability and accessibility web standards and best practices.
Program multilingual websites, including using techniques to Search Engine Optimize (SEO) pages in both languages.
Analyze and ensure the technical feasibility of proposed application designs.
Deep understanding of best practices when writing reusable code and libraries that can stand massive scale.
Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
Collaborate with the Web Development team, web designers and business stakeholders to improve usability.
Integrate data to/from various back-end services and databases with established input validation.
Be responsible for testing the usability of customer-facing web applications during development and provide after-hours support as needed.
Ensure high-quality graphics standards and brand consistency.
Create quality mockups and prototypes
Maintain and support multiple projects and deadlines
Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions
Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and trends
Any other duties as requested by the Manager, Web Development
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES:
Concern for Safety: Identifying hazardous or potentially hazardous situations and taking appropriate action to maintain a safe environment for self and others.
Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.
Passenger/Customer Service: Providing service excellence to internal and/or external customers (passengers).
Initiative: Dealing with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise.
Results Focus: Focusing efforts on achieving high-quality results consistent with the organization’s standards.
Fostering Communication: Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Digital Design, Computer Science or a closely related field of study.
Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of attention to detail
Ability to work effectively within a team environment and accept direction
Clearly articulate ideas and thoughts verbally
In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
Aviation industry experience would be considered an asset
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Expert knowledge and understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
2+ years experience creating websites that adhere to W3C WCAG 2.0 Level AA guidelines.
2+ years experience working with server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and Front-end frameworks, including jQuery, knockout and Bootstrap
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX and XML
Good understanding of SEO principles.
Experience with front-end UI/UX design.
Expert at image authoring tools like Photoshop/GIMP
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
Experience with distributed source control tools such as Git, Mercurial, etc.
Familiarity with project management and bug-tracking software such as JIRA, Bugzilla etc
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience building ASP.NET MVC web applications using C#, , Microsoft .NET 3.5+ , Visual Studio 2015 is a bonus
Experience in mobile app development on the iOS and Android platforms will be considered an asset.
Experience with SOAP and REST API web services would be an asset.
LOCATION: Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport - YTZ