In House Web Developer

We are a premier, high-growth employment law firm specializing in defending workers against workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, and hostile work environments. We are bringing our entire digital infrastructure completely in-house to build a deeply empathetic, highly engaging, and secure web presence. We are looking for an elite, dual-threat Web Developer and UI/UX Designer to spearhead this transition and own our technical roadmap. **The Role & Mission:** Your primary project for the first 90 to 120 days will be completely rebuilding, designing, and safely migrating our digital assets away from a proprietary, closed-CMS provider (Scorpion) onto an open infrastructure (WordPress or Webflow) that our firm completely owns. Post-migration, you will continuously optimize our site's conversion rates, build high-security digital intake funnels for sensitive clients, design landing pages for multi-channel marketing campaigns, and ensure our web infrastructure remains blistering fast, secure, and ADA/WCAG compliant. **Key Responsibilities:** * **End-to-End Migration:** Securely scrape, audit, and replicate all historical website content, blog posts, and media from our current proprietary host into a newly built, independent staging environment. * **Premium UI/UX Design:** Architect clean, accessible, and high-empathy user journeys in Figma. Implement features specifically optimized for sensitive legal users (e.g., desktop "Panic/Safe Exit" buttons and frictionless, secure multi-step consultation intake forms). * **Technical SEO & Redirection:** Map out a flawless 301/310 URL redirect strategy during launch to protect and elevate our historical Google search rankings. * **Ongoing Optimization & Compliance:** Continuously monitor website performance, core web vitals, and ensure absolute compliance with WCAG 2.1 accessibility laws to protect the firm from digital discrimination liabilities. **Required Qualifications & Technical Skills:** * **Experience:** 35+ years of professional experience as a Web Developer with a strong, proven portfolio in UI/UX interface design. (Prior experience inside a law firm, compliance agency, or healthcare entity is a massive plus). * **CMS Mastery:** Elite-level capabilities in custom **WordPress development** (via WP Engine/Elementor Pro) or **Webflow**. * **Design Stack:** High proficiency in **Figma** for wireframing and prototyping before writing code. * **Frontend Languages:** Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to build custom interactive elements beyond boilerplate templates. * **Infrastructure Knowledge:** Deep understanding of DNS management, SSL implementation, and handling secure data transfers. * **Soft Skills:** Exceptional maturity and emotional intelligence to manage digital spaces dealing directly with sensitive topics like sexual harassment and civil rights violations.