Web Developer III (Technical SEO)

Job Title: Web Developer III 
Location: Remote (preferred Bay Area)
Duration: 6 months
Pay rate: $75/hr on W2
Benefits: PTO, Health, Visio, Dental

We’re seeking a skilled Web Developer to join the team, working at the intersection of technical SEO and modern web development.
In this role, you’ll enable and configure site-specific metadata, manage Robots.txt, implement permanent redirects, and ensure streamlined URL discovery and canonicalization across the marketing websites.
Your expertise will be critical in optimizing site performance through Server-Side Rendering, monitoring site health, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to develop internal SEO tools.

Responsibilities

• Triaging a list of tasks such as fixing broken links and implementing performance and SEO updates.
• Proactively monitoring websites and investigating any upticks or trends in performance or issues.
• Identifying critical signals in dashboards and prioritizing those worth further investigation.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure they have a strong understanding of relevant issues and solutions and a path to fixing
• Enable and configure site-specific metadata for the marketing websites:
• Use and maintain Robots.txt to manage URLs and disallow un-necessary URLs.
• Use permanent redirects (301s) to preserve page equity when migrating URLs.
• Use 404s to indicate when Google should no longer index and rank a page.
• Provide the right URLs to Client via: Accurate XML sitemaps, Internal URLs which are accessible (not 404s), Hreflang
• Canonicalizing URLs to de-dupe for Google indexing
• Site-specific monitoring, alerting, triaging, and actioning: 404/500 errors, site performance, and speed metrics
• Enable/configure SSR, when appropriate, to optimize for crawler performance
• Partner with product & engineering to build and utilize internal tools to maximize SEO
• Develop SEO optimized HTML/XML and content

Qualifications:

• Web Developer with 5-7 years of experience in technical SEO, including site performance, metrics, accessibility, sitemaps, structured data, and tooling.
• Must be a SEO expert with experience writing custom front end coding: HTML, Javascript and CSS
• Strong understanding of technical SEO
• Experience working in a large team setting

Nice to have:

• Experienced with a Fortune 500 marketing websites, Major B2B or B2C
• Has any Google or SEO Certifications
• Full stack Engineering: React

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.