front end engineer Remote
Job description
Hours: Full-time
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Remote
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 D.O.E + Discretionary company bonus scheme
Join one of the biggest and most respected national e-commerce successes in our industry. cmostores.com is an online supplier of building materials, sold across multiple specialist e-commerce stores. We are seeking a self-motivated, organised, experienced and high performing Front-End Web Developer to join our team.
As a Front-End Web Developer you will support the e-commerce and Marketing teams with customer facing changes such as UX improvements and marketing email template changes. You will report to the Senior Front End Developer and be supported by our UX experts and dedicated design function.
Working as part of the Technical Team, you will engage with the other developers and wider CMO teams to develop and maintain our e-commerce sites, corporate site, and marketing emails. Customer experience is at the forefront of everything we do as a digital leader in our industry.
Duties include (but are not limited to):
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by designers with server-side logic (PHP).
- Creation and maintenance of editable marketing email templates.
- Maintenance of our e-commerce application and corporate site.
- Optimisation of our e-commerce application for maximum speed and scalability.
- Participation in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding, testing, and debugging.
- Following a methodical testing process, making sure that all code deployments are thoroughly tested locally and on the staging sites on multiple devices and browsers before they are deployed to production sites.
- Writing of clean, maintainable, and scalable code to develop functional web applications.
- Performing UI tests to optimise performance.
- Managing cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
- Collaborating with back-end web developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Gathering and addressing technical and design requirements.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Following emerging technologies.
- Providing training and support to internal teams.
- Working collaboratively with the wider team by sharing ideas, knowledge, and resources.
- Undertaking any further relevant research, development or training as required.
Requirements
- A demonstrable knowledge of HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, the TWIG templating engine, and Grunt/WebPack.
- Responsive web design techniques.
- Accessible web design techniques.
- An understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and Subversion.
- A working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
- A familiarity with back-end technologies (PHP and MYSQL).
- A working knowledge of CMS frameworks.
- An understanding of online security and data protection.
- Effective communication skills. You will need to provide support to non-technical people both by video call and by email. Being able to explain complicated ideas simply will be important, as will being able to understand reported problems.
- The ability to prioritise. Being able to tell when something is urgent and responding correctly is critical.
We are only able to consider applications from candidates who have the legal right to live and work in the UK and are based in the UK.
Cmostores.com is an equal opportunities employer
Benefits
- Work From Home
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Reward Gateway (discount scheme)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- On-site Parking
- Company Events
- Competitive Holiday Allowance
