Senior Front-end Developer


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Listed on

22nd August 2018

Location

Bristol

Salary/Rate

Excellent

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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DESCRIPTION

The senior 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

-Facilitate 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.

Leadership & management

-To manage one or more junior front-end developers, ensuring that they are inspired and motivated to deliver the best work possible.

-Ensure that everyone you manage has regular appraisals, clear objectives and a career plan to work towards.

-To assist in identifying when additional front-end resources are required and to interview for permanent and freelance staff as necessary.

-Support the head of department in implementing best practice, delivering internal communications and trialling new tools and approaches.

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

-Five year’s agency 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, as well as modifying legacy code

-Highly experienced in building responsive digital interfaces

-Solid understanding of JavaScript, including ES6, with experience of jQuery and other frameworks

-Comfortable working with a number of different tools including Webpack and Gulp

-Savvy understanding of UI/ UX principles

-Experience with a range of CMSs: we use Umbraco, EpiServer and WordPress

Desirable

-People management experience

-Comfortable working with Vue, React, or another JavaScript framework

-Theming and/or ecommerce experience

-Good understanding of GIT and approaches to version control

-Use of development patterns in JavaScript, e.g. 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

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