Senior Front-end Developer

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DESCRIPTION

We are currently looking for a Senior Front-end Developer to join either our London or Bristol office and work as part of a team of highly skilled digital specialists dedicated to delivering high quality, cutting edge projects. You will be responsible for site building, development and maintenance, and for producing well-documented, beautifully crafted and scalable solutions.

Main responsibilities

-Work closely with designers and developers in order to produce, modify and maintain high quality digital products of varying sizes and budgets. You will work across a range of clients in the commercial and non-profit sectors.

-Work in partnership with the design team to develop ideas and integrate designs seamlessly into chosen technologies.

-Accurately cost Front End effort on projects and inform delivery timing plans.

-Work collaboratively with the technology and UX teams to develop agency standards.

-Contribute to conversations and documentation on best practice and production efficiency.

-Train, inform and support other non-technical staff, particularly designers.

-Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly as regards to accessibility, usability and emerging technologies.

-Collaborate with other employees to refine or develop approaches to common production issues

REQUIREMENTS

Skills required

Essential Skills and knowledge

-Minimum 5 years of experience.

-Excellent visual design to web skills.

-Familiar with user centred design principles.

-Experienced in building responsive digital interfaces.

-Demonstrable evidence of working with HTML5 and CSS3 features.

-Experience with pre and post processors such as Sass.

-Experience of building medium to large-scale sites from the ground up.

-Good organizational skills both in application structure and code.

-Solid understanding of JavaScript with experience of JQuery and related frameworks.

-Good understanding of debugging techniques and tools.

-Experience with a range of CMSs: we use Umbraco, EPiServer and Wordpress.

-Awareness of common web usability and accessibility issues.

-Experience with GIT or similar version control system.

-Awareness and experience with common validation tools.

-Some experience with common APIs such as YouTube.

Desirable Skills and knowledge

-A good understanding of at least one JavaScript module loader.

-Use of development patterns in JavaScript, e.g. MVC, Pub-Sub, Name-spacing.

-Website design experience.

-Experience of working in both Windows and OS X environments.

-Demonstrable experience with Canvas, SVG and HTML5 video.

-Some experience with data visualisation libraries.