Middleweight Frontend Developer

We’ll keep our job description simple and to the point - what we expect from you, what you can expect from us, and the benefits of working with us. We are looking for a frontend developer to join our small, agile team in bringing exciting designs to life while supporting the fantastic work that our team has already produced. Check out our website to see the exciting companies/projects we've brought to life. On the average day, you may: Build a Shopify store using a custom theme or work on one of our bespoke CMS built on top of Laravel (see recent work on our website ). Tackle maintenance work on our existing sites - we save the last hour of each day to allow you to focus on bigger projects throughout the day. Collaborate with teammates, solving problems or implementing exciting new practices. As a member of our team, we want you to: Get involved with your teammates projects. Create exciting new websites and bring your thoughts and experience to the table. Work intelligently - we prefer to work with a selection of industry standard libraries and frameworks to speed up development, then write custom code to add quality to the end product. Have time to play around and improve your skills - you’ll be given training materials and time to expand your skillset. Go home on time - our office hours are 9-6 (flexi-time available) with an hour lunch. Our benefits are pretty good: Free lunches Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. 31 days holiday a year (including bank holidays). A fully stocked fridge of beer and soft drinks for a nice end of the day drink. Sweet espresso machine and fresh gourmet coffee to keep you energised. Team drinks out roughly every month. Some of the nitty-gritty bits: This is a midweight role and therefore we expect you can work mostly independently with occasional support from our senior developer and technical director. It is advantageous that you have worked on e-commerce sites before and ideally with Shopify. Your code should be easily picked up and maintained by anyone on the team. You need to be able to give realistic estimations of time to complete work and communicate openly throughout a project. In terms of knowledge and understanding, we expect you to have: Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML, CSS and JS. Basic understanding of CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS Good understanding of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as jQuery, Vue.js, React, underscore, etc. Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with Photoshop and/or Sketch is a plus. Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that site will adhere to them. This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89808834