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Alex James Digital
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Manchester, Greater Manchester
Front End Web Developer
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Job Type: Full-time |
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Salary: £40,000 per annum |
Overview
Our client are a fast growing ecommerce business. They are now looking for a talented and ambitious front-end developer to join them on the next exciting stage of their journey. About the role You’ll be joining a friendly, supportive and high-performing team of web development, user experience, UAT, infrastructure, and IT service specialists. You'll play a key role in the development, testing and maintenance of core customer experience across our UK and European websites. You’ll be hands-on and enthusiastic about bringing new technology and innovation to the team through the sharing of development practices, ideas and experience. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and problem solving, and will take a positive, proactive approach to your work. Experience working in a mobile-first environment is critical to the success of this role. Requirements include: Maintain and improve the company’s UK & European websites across all devices. Work alongside UX and UAT specialists to architect solutions that adhere to best-practices and make a real difference to customers. Support the roll out and deployment of enhancements and new technologies to the production environment. Develop using a broad range of languages, tools and technology. Work closely with various departments and stakeholders to deliver requirements. Essential skills Proven experience of e-commerce website development. Advanced HTML5 and CSS3 including mobile-first responsive web design (hand-coded or using frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation). Experience using CSS pre-processors such as SASS, LESS or Stylus. Knowledge of JavaScript and JS frameworks such as jQuery, React, Vue, Angular etc. Experience of CRO, including configuration of A/B or multivariate tests in Optimizely, Google Optimize, VWO or similar testing platforms. Experience with cross-browser and cross-device testing and compatibility. The ability to work well in a team as well as independently on individual projects. Attention to detail, quality, and best practices. Desired but non-essential skills Experience working within a .NET environment using Microsoft TFS & Visual Studio. Knowledge of modern UI/UX design practices and implementation. Agile Scrum/Kanban software development including use of JIRA and Confluence. Knowledge of WordPress and PHP development. Comfortable with web application architecture, e.g. client/server, HTTP, web services, APIs, Ajax. Experience working with databases, web performance and web security. Continuous integration and deployment. Test driven development and testing automation. Previous experience using WebGL or Node.js. Excellent package offered to the successful candidate.