Frontend developer

DESCRIPTION

The front-end developer works as part of an elite team of innovative and highly skilled digital specialists dedicated to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge projects for some of the world’s leading brands and charities. You will be responsible for site building, development and maintenance, and for producing well-documented, beautifully crafted and scalable solutions. As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to mentor and manage one or more junior members of the team.

Main responsibilities

Front-end delivery

• Work closely with designers and developers in order to produce, modify and maintain high quality, cutting edge projects across a range of sizes and budgets. You will work across a range of clients in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors.
• Work in partnership with the design team to integrate designs seamlessly into chosen technologies.
• Accurately cost front-end effort on projects and inform delivery timing plans.

Front-end process development

• Serve as a liaison between UX, design and back-end development teams to develop agency standards.
• Introduce measures to speed up coding efficiency and maintainability.
• Train non-technical staff, particularly designers, and assist us in educating clients.

Innovative thinking

• Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly with regards to performance, interface design, task automation and web accessibility.
• Promote new technologies to the wider agency and make sound recommendations to our clients.
• Demonstrate a passion for emerging technologies and continually seek to push the boundaries in everything you do.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential

• At least 3 year’s commercial development experience
• Excellent visual design to web skills
• Demonstrable evidence of working with HTML5 and CSS3 features
• Mastery of cross-browser and cross-device code
• Experience of building large-scale sites from the ground up
• Experience in building responsive digital interfaces
• Solid commercial experience with JavaScript and confident working with React, Vue, or both
• Savvy understanding of UI/ UX principles
• Experience with a range of CMSs: we use Umbraco, EpiServer and WordPress
• People management experience
• Comfortable working within agile, cross-functional teams
• Strong client-facing and communication skills

Desirable

• Familiar with various CSS pre-processors, . LESS and SASS
• Good understanding of GIT and approaches to version control
• Use of development patterns in Javascript, . MVC, Pub-Sub, Namespacing
• Experience of working in both Windows and Unix environments
• Website design experience
• Experience with canvas, svg and HTML5 video
• Experience with NPM and JavaScript module loaders