A great digital agency based in Manchester are on the look out for a talented Front-End Web Developer to join their team. The successful applicant will have a minimum of 2 years experience developing Shopify and WordPress websites, and be enthusiastic and confident about their work.
Great benefits:
- Flexible hybrid working policy, with up to 2 remote days per week
- Health insurance for all employees
- Cycle to work scheme
- Company pension scheme
- "Perks At Work" programme offering a range of benefits, discounts and deals
- 24 holidays per year (in addition to statutory and public holidays), with one full day extra for every two years of service
- Birthday off in addition to the above
- Training & development plans with the opportunity to grow and progress within the company
- Regular work social events
- Annual salary reviews in line with own & company performance
- Positive, hard-working and relaxed working environment
You'll be expected to work alongside their busy web team with full project builds, smaller site updates, testing and anything else to help us meet tight deadlines. They'll expect you to work to project milestones, reporting to a team manager and having regular meetings to ensure progress.
The ideal candidate needs to have:
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
- Strong organisational effectiveness and time management
- Excellent communication skills
- An outstanding attention to detail
- Appreciation of modern website design
- A keen approach towards self-learning and development.
- Confidence to have 1-2-1 calls with clients and translate their requirements into actionable tasks
Essential skills:
- HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Javascript
- 2+ years minimum experience with Shopify, coding in Liquid
- 1+ years experience with WordPress
- 1+ years minimum agency experience
- Responsive & mobile-first development experience
- Cross-browser / device testing
- GitHub workflow management
- Modern build environment experience
- Knowledge and exposure to web accessibility guidelines
- Understanding of domains & hosting environments
Desirable skills:
- Knowledge & exposure to other CMS platforms such as Craft CMS (using Craft Matrix blocks in particular)
- Experience with WordPress ACF Flexible Content
- Experience with WooCommerce
- Exposure with ideally one or more of the following popular JavaScript libraries: React / Next / Angular / Vue
- Understanding of SEO from a technical perspective
- Understanding of Core Web Vitals and website optimisation
- Experience with Linux & Plesk in particular
- Online work portfolio