Overview
A leading digital and creative agency based in Kingston are looking for an experienced Front-End Web Developer to join their growing team.
Salary: up to £30,000 (DOE)
The Role
- Work with others to collect requirements and write technical specifications
- Developing and maintaining front-end applications using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (w/o JavaScript frameworks)
- Carry out QA to investigate, diagnose and fix bugs
- Working with designers to implement internal and external (client) feedback.
- Write and maintain clear and comprehensive documentation to accompany your code
- Introduce automated tests to ensure our code and apps continue to run reliably 24/7
- Write code to create API’s or to integrate with 3rd party systems and API’s (social networks etc.)
- Administering the LAMP stack (shell scripting, server configuration/administration, etc.)
Key Skills/Experience
- Degree level qualification in a technical discipline, preferably CompSci or BSc Software Engineering.
- Experience of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript development, including JS frameworks (jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS)
- PHP/Server-side development (LAMP stack)
- CMS experience, particularly WordPress and Drupal
- Experience with RESTful APIs
- Client-facing experience
- Experience of securing data and authentication methods
- An understanding of design patterns and a range of data structures
- Good knowledge of Linux server administration and infrastructure, deployment and migration strategies
- Experience with GIT
- Experience with Java, Python or Ruby
- Unit Testing