Senior Frontend Developer

Hybrid Working Model
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodation or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

What does a Front-End Developer do at Hogarth?
The Front-end Developer is responsible for developing assets across all digital channels for a range of local and global brands. This primarily includes digital banners, social media content, and emails.

Responsibilities:

• Digital display and social media - adaptation and animate digital banners and social media assets, considering specifications and best practices - include static, animated GIFs, HTML5, and Rich Media banners, and DCO campaigns.


• Develop responsive HTML emails, considering best practices and latest email trends.


• Work with project managers/account servicing team/clients to advise on the best approach to tackling brief challenges.


• Ensure all tasks, big and small, are developed to the highest creative quality and standards.


• Able to interpret briefs, estimate effort, and deliver within agreed timelines.


• Thoroughly QA work against the brief and brand guidelines before delivering.

Non-Negotiable Qualifications:

• Advanced HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3


• Ability to hand code in vanilla JavaScript                                                                             


• Responsive development


• Strong knowledge of animation techniques – via JS and CSS.


• Third-party JS libraries including Greensocks, CreateJS, jQuery etc.


• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite especially Photoshop and Illustrator


• Knowledge of JSON and XML


• Knowledge of optimization principles and techniques (image optimization, code minification, font subsetting etc)


• Experience of at least 2 of the main Ad Serving platforms such as Google DoubleClick, Flashtalking, Sizmek, AdForm and Celtra.


• Setup and management of feeds (XML, JSON) to drive dynamic campaign solutions


• Experience with using Google Sheets and MS Excel as content feeds


• Demonstrable experience of De-bugging


• Knowledge of coding standards and best practice


• Full knowledge of IAB digital advertising standards


• Understanding of W3C Standards and cross-browser/device issues and code solutions.


• Creation and use of Spritesheets.


• Previous experience building dynamic banner campaigns across a variety of Ad Servers.


• Knowledge of DCO targeting optimisation and trafficking approaches for display advertising (placement/audience id’s, GEO etc).


• Experience of GIT version control.

Nice-to-have Qualifcations:

• Experience with Adobe After Effects


• Experience with timeline-based IDE’s such as Adobe Animate and Google Web Designer


• Knowledge of dynamic VAST and VPAID video ads.


• Experience producing ads for YouTube


• Experience working in Social Ad Campaigns


• Experience of third-party social and video programmatic platforms including Smartly, Spirable, Xandr, Shakr and Jivox.


• Experience with Figma


• Ad server certifications.


• Email development


• SCSS/SASS and task runners such as GULP


• Agile working practices


• Experience using multiple data sources for dynamic campaigns. For example, dependant feed setups and product endpoints in combination with spreadsheet feeds.