The Trailhead program is the start of your epic journey at Critical Mass. During your initial 12-weeks, you will embark on a custom-built learning journey to understand what we do, who we are, and how we make award-winning work with our clients. Our goal is to integrate you into the amazing work we do here at Critical Mass, and support you as part of the team to grow your career with us!

Our Summer 2023 Trailhead Cohort commences June 5, 2023.

All applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and the hiring location for this role is still being finalized. 

As a Junior Developer, you’ve got extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, and Vanilla JS, which means you’re good to go when it comes to developing innovative features for responsive websites. If you’re always looking to learn and grow in your role, then good news—you’ll get key mentorship from a Tech Lead and will gain experience working with departments like Creative and UX to create top-notch user experiences. Not only are you a true rock star in responsive HTML and CSS development, you’re also up to speed on the latest in responsive grid frameworks and templating engines—and throw in some various JavaScript patterns for reusability and performance. You have a strong foundational knowledge of ES5 and ES6—but we’ll welcome any experience you have with JavaScript as well. Experience has taught you what works when it comes to choosing the best mix of cutting-edge tech. Most importantly, you are driven to hone your craft through a passion for technology.  

You Will:

• Rapidly prototype with code using modern front-end frameworks and digital pattern libraries.  
• Deliver solutions balancing technical and business requirements.  
• Understand business and user requirements. 
• Maintain high coding standards and practices to exercise quality control on all aspects of web development. 
• Problem-solve in all areas of web development.

You Have:

• 0-3 years demonstrated development experience with hand-coding advanced HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. 
• Demonstrated development experience with React.  
• Package manager and automation tool experience (npm, gulp, grunt).  
• Demonstrated understanding of Responsive Web Design principles. 
• Proficiency with Semantic HTML Markup. 
• Experience working with cross-functional and cross-office teams.  
• Experience diagnosing and solving cross-browser and cross-platform issues.

Critical Mass’ Hybrid Work Expectation for the Trailhead Talent:  

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible!  Our Trailhead Talent is the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.  In an effort to do so, we’d like to establish the expectation that you plan to work from an office on Tuesdays & Thursdays.  The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and team relationships
• Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus, we provide at CM.  We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly. 

If you have questions, you can email: [email protected].