Frontend Developer

Job Description

Front End Developer vacancy - Zesty are recruiting for a Front End Developer to join our talented team on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity.

The Team - Zesty, a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for technology, the Internet and customer service. Zesty is an award-winning digital strategy, design and development agency with over 22 years' experience gained across 2000+ digital projects.

Your role: As a Front-End Developer, you'll be responsible for creating visually appealing, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that set the standard for usability and performance. This role leans heavily into design and UI/UX, requiring a keen eye for detail.

The role is very much "Front of Front-End", so creating the parts of websites and applications that users interact with directly. 

You will focus on building the user interface (UI) to make it visually appealing, intuitive to use, and accessible to everyone. This involves writing code using languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to bring designs to life. 

Day to day you will:

• Analyse customer requirements (including direct contact meetings) and assist with project budgeting and scheduling

• Liaise with teams/individuals (e.g., designers, account manager, 3rd party providers) to develop and refine high-level design concepts

• Develop website front-end presentation layer (i.e., HTML/CSS/JavaScript)

• Maintain and evaluate changes to existing websites (both in-house and 3rd party developments)

• Adhere to in-house standards on development practices e.g., source control, coding style guides, processes, as well as formal standards such as WCAG accessibility and W3C best practices for HTML/CSS

• Perform other duties as directed

What we’re looking for from you:

You will be a seasoned Front End Developer who is organised, a team player with demonstrable knowledge of web-based development and accessibility guidelines and practices.

• HTML 

  • Comprehensive understanding of HTML semantics, accessibility best practices, and cross-browser compatibility.

• CSS/SCSS 

  • Excellent CSS skills, including preprocessors like SCSS/Sass and responsive design principles.

• JavaScript 

  • Comprehensive understanding of core JavaScript concepts such as DOM manipulation, event handling, and ES6+ features.

• Web Accessibility

  • Understanding of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 

  • Experience in implementing accessibility features such as proper semantic HTML, ARIA roles and attributes, and keyboard navigation.

  • Familiarity with accessibility testing tools like Axe, Lighthouse, or WAVE.

  • Knowledge of the importance of web usability, accessibility & standards

• UI/UX Principles

  • Understanding of user interface and user experience principles, ability to translate wireframes and designs into responsive and user-friendly interfaces.

• Cross-browser and Cross-device Compatibility

  • Knowledge of techniques to ensure consistent rendering across different browsers and devices.

• Animation and Interaction

  • Proficient in CSS animations, transitions for creating interactive UI elements.

• Web Performance

  • Proficient in performance techniques such as lazy loading, images optimisation, and resource minification.

• Experience with GIT / Version control systems

• Excellent communication and team-working skills

• Excellent time management skills with ability to prioritise workload

• Ability to work well on your own and within a team environment

• Demonstrable experience of web-based development using HTML, JavaScript, CSS and associated tools and frameworks

• Able to resolve issues effectively in a timely fashion

• Able to utilise rapid development techniques in an agile environment

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News Broadcasting. Our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which have become destinations for millions of listeners across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Our success is rooted in delivering content our audiences love. Since Chris Evans returned to his spiritual home at Virgin Radio UK a year ago, the whole schedule has seen record audiences, and we’ve launched three new Virgin channels: Anthems, Chilled and Groove. talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station, partnering with the Premier League, the England Cricket Board and many others to deliver live commentaries and analysis from the best in the business. From FM104 in Dublin, to Cork’s 96FM, our Irish local radio brands are distinguished by their connections with their communities

Life at News Broadcasting. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• 25 daysholiday, increasing to 30 days after 5 years service, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

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