IT, Web Developer, Front End, Graduate, Junior

Graduate / Junior Front-End Developer

Company Overview

Our client is an award-winning agency that is built on trusted reputation and superior digital and creative services for Start-Ups, SME’s, large corporate organisations and government clients. They offer a hybrid-working policy which takes full advantage of the technologies, systems and processes which underpin their operations.

Their new office in Maidstone, is a vibrant, yet professional working environment in a great location with excellent amenities including kitchens, showers and breakout spaces (as well as the obligatory agency drinks fridge & table tennis table).

They are looking for a graduate or junior developer with some commercial experience and proven ability to take design prototypes and build outstanding web experiences, as well as maintain existing sites.

This is a great opportunity to work as part of a passionate design and development team and to work on great projects. This is a hybrid role, with two days a week in the Maidstone office working with the wider team, and the rest of the week can be remote.

Your responsibilities

• Developing innovative, high quality websites
• Presenting and rationalising your work to our team
• Work both independently and as part of a wider team to deliver on web

Person Specification – Must Have’s

• A love of web, creative technologies and digital innovation
• Demonstrable on-the-job experience in developing websites
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery
• Experience with open source php-based CMS platforms such as WordPress or WooCommerce
• Experience with building out sites from Adobe XD, Sketch or Figma files
• A dedication to coding excellence and continuous personal development
• An ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously

Person Spec "nice-to-haves"

Experience utilising NPM and task/build tools such as Webpack or Gulp

Experience utilising MySQL for database management and migrations

Experience with using Github for version control and creating pull requests

Interest in the Vue and Laravel frameworks

Salary Offering a competitive salary dependent upon experience, ranging from £20,000 to £24,000.

Benefits

23 days holiday per year

3 additional volunteering days per year

Company pension

£500 training budget per year

£300 technology budget

Employee perks scheme including rewards, bonuses, discounts, freebies, health & wellbeing offerings and more

Regular team events & away days

Flexible Working policy - 2 days working in Maidstone in their modern town-centre studio & co-working space, with the remainder remote/from home as you choose.

Parking allowance

Please only apply if you fully match the skills and experience required. If you have not had contact from us within 72 hours of your application, due to receiving high volumes of applications, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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