Job Description

Company overview: 

We’re Trace Effect, the creative strategy studio building culturally-fluent brands that leave a trace. We’re expat-led, woman-owned, multilingual, multicultural, and entirely remote. Clients span sectors including mental health, housing justice, culture, tech, and political participation — with work delivered in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, and even in Swahili. Behind Trace Effect is an uprooted citizen, Tracy most call Trace. P.S. We don’t do “visual”. We’re the creative co-pilot.

Website: https://www.traceeffect.com

Location of the internship: Remote

Internship overview:

You’ll support our web team with small updates and fixes across client sites, ensure changes ship with high quality, and help keep experiences consistent across devices, browsers, and languages. 

We build in Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, WordPress, and hard code. 

What you'll do:

• Make small updates and fixes to client websites in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and CMS backends
• Perform QA testing to verify edits are correctly implemented
• Check layouts, responsiveness, and functionality across devices and browsers
• Report, document, and track bugs, errors, and inconsistencies
• Collaborate with marketing and design to confirm requirements before implementing
• Support content updates, image replacements, and link checks
• Ensure all tasks meet quality standards before delivery
• Learn and apply best practices in web development and quality assurance

Must haves:

• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with at least one CMS (e.g., WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify, or Headless)
• Comfortable testing across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and mobile devices
• Strong attention to detail and eagerness to learn
• Clear communication and reliable time management
• A second language, French, Arabic, Spanish or otherwise. We're a cross-cultural powerhouse, you need to be that to join us. 

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Git and simple branching workflows
• Knowledge of accessibility basics and performance checks
• Exposure to multilingual and RTL layouts
• Comfort using Figma for specs and redlines

Tools we have:

• GitHub
• Webflow, WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace
• Browser dev tools, Lighthouse, responsive testing tools
• Notion for tasks and documentation, Figma for design handoff

Details:

• Engagement: Part-time internship with potential to extend into job
• Location: Remote. Core collaboration in CET

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