Frontend Developer

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The Company

Leighton is an awarding winning integrated technology business. We use vision, creativity and expertise to connect businesses with their customers and drive commercial success across multiple touchpoints. Working with us isn’t just about achieving the end result, it’s about what we do to get there, changing the way you think about your business and benefits of digital forever.

We work with a range of high profile brands such as British Airways, Home Group and IKEA, as well as smaller growing companies. This represents a very exciting time for Leighton with the recent appointment of a new Chief Executive and a commitment to significant investment in order to drive the business forward. To support our next stage of growth we are looking to expand our technical team.

The Role

As part of our technical team you will play a vital part in helping us and our customers achieve ambitious development projects to help their business grow. You will be client facing and will work within a delivery team, alongside Designers, UX experts, Testers, Business Analysts and Project Managers to deliver a great end product.

The Candidate

You will be able to demonstrate:

Previous commercial development experience.

Excellent knowledge in frontend web technologies (HTML5, SCSS and JavaScript).

Experience working with version control systems such as Git or SVN.

Experience using task running software such as Gulp or Grunt.

Experience of SEO and Accessibility best practice.

An understanding of responsive frameworks and modern CSS techniques such as Flexbox, BEM, CSS Modules or SMACSS or experience with Bootstrap 4 / Foundation 6 would be beneficial.

Experience with JavaScript Frameworks such as AngularJS or React would be desirable.

Experience with XML and XSLT would be desirable.

Experience writing and running manual unit tests would be desirable.

An eye for detail when realising UX into working web pages and web applications.

Passion for technology and the role it can play in making our lives easier.

Everyday personal qualities of integrity, collaboration and be intrinsically customer centric in your decision making.

The Responsibilities

Work as a member of the Development Team and will help to deliver our customers projects.

Take user stories and UX and implement these within a working project.

Peer review your team mates code and suggest amendments to improve quality and standards compliance.

Contribute to internal coding standards.

Document functional and none functional changes.

Work with our manual test team to ensure sufficient manual testing has been completed.

What We Offer

We value our team and to attract exceptional people we offer an excellent package. You can look forward to:

A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience.

An annual review, with quarterly 1-2-1’s.

A contributory pension scheme we match 2% - 5%

A death in service benefit

25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (3 must be reserved for Christmas).

A flexible approach to working core hours 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00-16:00.

Continuous personal development, career path and training.

It’s the Little Things

Free Fruit delivered on a weekly basis to all sites.

Organised free social club events

Charity fundraising opportunities

Sporting Events - football, yoga, pilates…

Festive day at Christmas time

Funding for training books for personal development

If you want to join a team that is ambitious, challenging, hardworking and fun, please contact our Recruitment Team supplying your CV and a cover letter outlining the reason and motivation for you applying for the position and details of your salary/benefit package by clicking the APPLY button.