Are you a skilled Front End developer looking for a new challenge? Do you have the passion, skills and enthusiasm to succeed in a busy but energetic agency environment? Reech is looking for someone to support their growing Development team, working on a wide range of internal and external projects, building modern websites, solutions and systems for a variety of clients and sectors.
Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, passionate, and creative Front-End Developer to join a growing team of professional developers in a vibrant and energetic agency environment.
Working closely within a team of three, you will report to our Technical Director and support them on varied, interesting, and challenging projects, both internal and external. You will help produce modern, engaging, and beautiful websites using the world’s most trusted technologies and support our clients with hosting and website care.
Who we are
Reech, established in 2009, is fast becoming Shropshire’s leading full-service marketing agency. We provide a wide range of services including branding, design, digital, media, and marketing services to a wide range of local, national, and international businesses across all sectors.
If you’re successful, you’ll join a talented, close-knit, and fun-loving team, who work in a highly collaborative way sharing ideas, knowledge, and best practice.
At Reech we don’t build websites using third party or paid-for themes. We build each and every site from the ground up, based on client requirements, referencing bespoke designs created by our talented in-house design team. This process is both creative and collaborative and helps deliver beautiful, unique, and innovative websites.
For our developers this means they get to code every day, take control of all their mark-up, and implement relevant technologies on a per site basis. This WordPress developer position also offers opportunities to use different coding languages and frameworks where appropriate.
Responsibilities
- Working alongside back-end developers, implement responsive, user-friendly, and visually appealing websites and interfaces.
- Convert designs and wireframes into functional, well-organized, and optimized WordPress themes.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code using a variety of front-end technologies.
- Optimize web pages for speed and performance.
- Test and debug front-end code to ensure cross-browser compatibility and accessibility.
- Supporting the digital project team with support requests for a wide range of clients across websites and hosting.
- Maintaining a high awareness of industry issues and trends regarding accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies.
- Assisting with the ongoing development of frontend coding standards.
- Participating in quality control activities such as testing user acceptance testing.
- Communicating with clients and partners via email and telephone where required.
- Supporting a wide range of clients with the day to day running of their websites and hosting.
Key skills and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field.
- At least 2 years’ front end development experience client-side or with an agency.
- Experienced using WordPress.
- Exceptional skills in HTML5, CSS, SCSS and JavaScript/jQuery.
- Experience with GIT, Gulp, and other front-end development tools.
- A good understanding of modular web design.
- Experience of UX principles and responsive design.
- Some understanding of PHP and general core programming concepts.
- Ability to look beyond the brief and suggest improved solutions and share opinions.
- Passionate about creating beautiful, engaging, intuitive, efficient, and highly usable websites.
- Test and debug front-end code to ensure cross-browser compatibility and accessibility.
Key behaviours
- Ability to receive and digest constructive feedback to push boundaries of website design.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work towards strict deadlines.
- Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
- Ability to multi-task and stay organised in a dynamic work environment.
- Analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail.
- Passionate about the field and willingness to learn.
Desirable skills
- Knowledge of Shopify or integrating with SaaS systems.
- Experience integrating with the WordPress CMS.
- Familiarity with web servers such as Apache and Nginx.
- Experience with Plesk for server management and website hosting.
- Familiarity with website analytics tools like Google Analytics.
- Experience with other content management systems like Drupal and Joomla would be an added advantage.
Benefits include
- Permanent role.
- Company contributed pension scheme.
- 28 days annual leave including bank holidays
- Christmas off (we’re closed!).
- Support, training, and guidance.
- Your birthday off once you’ve been with us for a little while.
- A modern, relaxed working environment.
- Working with an experienced team.
- Regular social events with the team.
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £25,000-£35,000/year depending on experience
When applying, please submit your CV and covering letter to [email protected]
NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
