The role
You’ll be working directly with clients and the design team to understand a business's strategy and goals, and build websites that help fulfil them.
We like to push each project as far as we can, so we want you to challenge us (and clients) to help build great solutions on time and on budget. Our developers don’t just take comps and turn them into websites. You’ll be involved in the design and decision making process to make sure what we want to build, can be built.
The role is full time and permanent. You can work remotely or at our studio in Cardiff Bay (once it’s safe to return). You’ll be required to come into the studio from time to time so being able to get to Cardiff reasonably easily is essential. We’re very easy to get to.
Our core hours are 8:30am - 5pm Monday to Friday. We have an excellent flexible working policy and we’re supportive of people’s different lifestyles and commitments. We will happily work something out for the right candidate.
About you
You will have a can-do attitude, an appetite to learn, and a love of building for the web. We want a developer who is a good all rounder. You’ll have an eye for good design, you should be fussy about user experience, and have good communication skills.
You will combine technical chops with a great attitude, using your experience and initiative to finish projects to our high standards. All with minimal input from the senior developers. You will collaborate with the designers and other developers to help work out if and how something can be built. You will be comfortable talking to clients and leading them through the development process.
You will have experience of taking designs and turning them into code, making different systems talk to each other with APIs, developing extensions and plugins for other software to get things working. We want you to be involved in scoping projects so you should be able to estimate how long something will take you to build.
You will be able to write PHP to a high standard and you’ll have experience using MySQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Experience using a CMS and version control (we use Git) is essential. You should also have experience of servers and server setup, and using the command line. You won’t know how to solve every problem, but you’ll know what to Google to get on the right path.
We also expect a web developer to have a basic knowledge of:
Accessibility best practices
Performance best practices
Security best practices
Bonus round
You’ll get bonus points for...
JS Framework experience
Templating languages
Craft CMS
Shopify
Familiarity with design software (the Adobe ones, Sketch, InVision, etc)
You can interview me if you have…
Native iOS/Android skills
Server/Devops experience
A.R/V.R experience
Benefits
Here's what you'll get
£30-35k, depending on experience
Long term growth prospects, mentoring and opportunities to lead projects
Opportunities to experiment with new techniques and technologies
Opportunities to train and attend workshops and conferences
Great pension options and employee benefits package
Whatever kit you need
Fruit, good coffee/tea and quality biscuits in the studio
Regular Wagamama's. It's kind of a tradition (when safe to do so)
