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  • Reading
  • £25,000 to £30,000
  • (Permanent)
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This award-wining digital design company is looking for a Front-end Developer to join their talented and enthusiastic team.

The right candidate will have a strong background in front-end development for both mobile and web applications. They will be a highly experienced JavaScript Developer with experience of working on medium to large applications. This candidate has to be a keen learner, being able to read code and understand it in order to use to the company’s JS/SASS libraries quickly and efficiently.

The successful candidate will have good commercial experience in JavaScript and HTML5 development within an Agile environment. Within the role they will provide technical insight and ideas for the development of primarily web technology and mobile products. They will also provide expertise across JavaScript libraries and related web technologies to help evolve and improve technical standards.

The company encourage experimentation with new technologies. It is a great environment for a keen developer to express themselves whilst working on innovative projects and products.

Essential skills:

- A good programming-related degree
- Knowledge and experience of the full development life cycle
- Full stack OO JavaScript developer - Browser/Server
- Advanced knowledge of HTML5/CSS3, and Web standards
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
- Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image.
- Experience of build tools and an understanding of deployment of web applications
- Experience with Git (a link to your Github account is a plus)
- Must be able to clearly communicate technical challenges to non-technical businesses
- Must have exceptional attention-to-detail

Desirable skills:

- Exposure to automation and test driven development
- Exposure of Node.js, Express, MongoDB and related frameworks.
- Exposure to the PhoneGap framework
- Experience of SDL Web 8 (formerly SDAL Tridion)
- Being experienced in mobile development for Apple iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone.
- Experience with Objective C and Java is a plus
- An understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them.