Senior Web Developer — React/Next.js & APIs (Columbus)

CatholicJobs.com; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k), medical, dental, vision, and P

Job summary

Catholic Answers in Columbus, OH seeks a Web Developer - Programmer to own and advance the primary website and related web apps. You will collaborate with IT, design, content, and external partners to ensure reliable, scalable digital experiences.

The role requires strong JavaScript, React/Next.js expertise, experience with SPAs, headless CMS, and API-driven architectures. Relocation to Columbus is welcomed; local candidates preferred.

Qualifications

• College degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Web Development, Information Technology, or related field and/or equivalent professional experience.
• Professional experience developing and maintaining production websites and web applications.
• Microsoft certifications a plus.
• Cloud platform certifications a plus.
• Web development, security, accessibility, or related technical certifications a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, enhance, and support the Catholic Answers primary website and related web applications using modern component-based web technologies.
• Design and deliver responsive, accessible, user-friendly web experiences in collaboration with content, marketing, design, and other stakeholders.
• Manage the full-stack web environment, including the headless CMS, virtual server infrastructure, Vercel development/staging/production environments, deployments, upgrades, patching, backups, and recovery.
• Monitor, secure, troubleshoot, and optimize the web technology stack to ensure performance, availability, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Build and maintain integrations with internal systems, Microsoft-based services, and third-party platforms, including APIs, analytics, payments, authentication, and marketing technologies.
• Maintain cross-browser and cross-device compatibility and implement best practices for performance, Core Web Vitals, SEO, accessibility, semantic HTML, and structured data.
• Develop and maintain the server-side endpoints that generate the organization\'s syndication feeds (RSS/Atom, podcast XML).
• Develop reusable, clean, documented, maintainable, and testable code; participate in code reviews, testing, quality assurance, and release management.
• Maintain source control and development workflows across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Collaborate with IT staff and external partners on hosting, DNS, security, authentication, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, migrations, and other web projects.
• Evaluate emerging web technologies and recommend improvements that strengthen the Catholic Answers digital experience.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for applications, integrations, APIs, deployment procedures, and development standards.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Next.js

HTML

CSS

SPAs

Headless CMS

APIs

Education

Undergraduate Degree

Microsoft certifications

Cloud certifications

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Vercel

REST APIs

Job description

Catholic Answers in Columbus, OH seeks a Web Developer - Programmer to own and advance the primary website and related web apps. You will collaborate with IT, design, content, and external partners to ensure reliable, scalable digital experiences.

The role requires strong JavaScript, React/Next.js expertise, experience with SPAs, headless CMS, and API-driven architectures. Relocation to Columbus is welcomed; local candidates preferred.