Sr Back End Marketing Web Developer

About the role

Determines strategy and direction of all back-end website development for Paychex’s public-facing website, managing development operations, Cloudflare, and Drupal for functionality, performance, and user satisfaction. Validates requirements and performs analysis and design for system improvements and new applications.

Responsibilities

• Determines strategic direction and manages complex program changes using proprietary languages to translate specifications and/or requirements into code.
• Builds assets in Drupal, develops workflows, and assists with data-capture templates to manage enterprise content and deliver to website properties.
• Defines development tasks and provides time estimates to aid in scheduling.
• Assigns and coordinates tasks of other back-end developers; monitors progress against task estimates to provide status.
• Communicates department project activities and status.
• Recognizes proprietary code, process, or standard inefficiencies and makes suggestions for improvement.
• Complies with and contributes to standards and procedures to ensure development consistency (e.g., programming standards, change management, version control).
• Applies web-specific technical skills to independently produce deliverables (i.e., specifications, program changes, unit test scripts, documentation).
• Acquires and utilizes in-depth business knowledge to support web deliverables, including responding to questions, researching, and resolving issues to provide technical support for production.
• Works collaboratively with members of the Marketing team to devise the best technical solutions to meet product, UX, and marketing needs that increase website traffic and lead generation.
• Determines and manages the Content Management System platform (Drupal) for Paychex.com, including setup, workflows, and vendor relationships.
• Provides documentation to support website changes to ensure consistent best practices.
• Trains and mentors all Web Developers to ensure they can work independently on web projects.
• Supports programming changes during optimization, quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post-implementation to ensure integrity of web-based deliverables.
• Manages relationship with IT by working with team members to troubleshoot back-end website issues and bugs to ensure resolution.
• Performs comprehensive analysis and design for program changes to gain and transfer knowledge of web-based asset changes; reviews and provides input to requirements documents; writes design documents.
• Other duties as assigned to support the general purpose of the position’s function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a computer-related discipline (preferred).
• 5 years of experience in a related field.
• 3 years of SQL experience with query building and a solid data architecture foundation; any database administration experience is useful.

Pay

The starting base pay range for this position is $108,900 – $171,100. Geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience may result in total compensation outside of this range.

Benefits

• Medical coverage, virtual wellness classes, and 401(k) with employer match.
• Tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, and financial assistance.
• Paid time off, company holidays, culture days, and comprehensive work-life balance programs.
• Award-winning training and development programs for ongoing learning opportunities.
• Paid time off for volunteerism and support for local community initiatives.

Note: The benefits described apply to full-time employees. Benefits for part-time, contract, and intern roles may vary.