Senior Front End Web Developer

Our client are a growing Manchester digital and design agency.

They are now looking for a Senior Front End Developer to join the team.

We're looking for:

A talented Front End Developer with 5+ years of experience, a strong portfolio of high quality website build examples, and a passion for clean code, modern frameworks and producing quality websites. You’ll be part of a small team where ideas, creativity, and collaboration are valued.

Responsibilities

As senior front-end developer you will work directly alongside the technical director to create digital projects that are not only visually stunning, but blazingly fast and with a key emphasis on user experience.

You will be a key part of the growing studio team, handling the build of full web projects handing over from the design stage (collaborating with the design team) through front-end prototype development, into CMS build and testing.

• Leading greenfield projects before the design stage and informing and recommending features before they reach build.
• Guiding the development of our Headless CMS Solutions with both Sanity and Wordpress API integrations
• Communicating with both project managers and the design team to ensure deadlines are achievable and scope is realistic
• Meeting with clients to discuss website design and functionality

Qualifications / Experience

• Degree level training in relevant subject is desired but not essential based on the rest of the experience
• 4+ years of experience in front end development in a professional environment
• Knowledge of advanced Wordpress templating techniques, ideally including using Timber/Twig templating, and Advanced Custom Fields
• Ability to create vanilla javascript modules from scratch with standards complaint ES 2016 syntax
• Knowledge of one or more modern Javascript frameworks such as React or NextJS
• Experience creating CSS styles from scratch, using modular CSS methodologies alongside experience with Tailwind
• Advanced SASS techniques such as variables and array mapping
• E-commerce experience, ideally using Shopify or expanding Wordpress sites with WooCommerce
• Knowledge of different types of task runners and techniques for concatenating and minifying Stylesheets and Javascript
• A strong sense of design, functionality and user experience

Excellent package on offer