Junior Front End Developer Bournemouth, England
Job description
Cold Banana are a Dorset based company. Our vision is to be one of the best .Net agencies in the South, building in-depth solutions for our clients to make it a better experience for their customers.
Who are Cold Banana?
We are an award winning company, still just 7 years old but growing with over 20 full time staff, who all want to develop great technology for us to use. Our work involves charities, financial institutions and the public services. We are proud to be part of the evolution of what we use on a daily basis online for the better. We’re a company that truly values our employees - you’re our most valuable asset.
Our Front End Developer will be working on a wide variety of projects, from websites, apps, system applications and more - using modern JavaScript frameworks and a mixture of persistence technologies.
The Role
- Willingness to learn new languages and technologies
- Keep abreast of latest and emerging technologies
- Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
- Ability to self manage
- Work in a multidisciplinary team with other professionals such as back-end developers and web designers
- Produce clean, efficient, testable code using modern web technologies.
- Adhere to organisational policies, standards and best practices in application development, documentation, and maintenance that support industry best practices and project approaches
- Design and develop mobile friendly applications
- Analyse web applications and perform improvements for SEO and Accessibility.
- Collaborate with designers, developers and product owners in order to build interactive and scalable sites/software.
- Review and refactor code.
- Build, develop and maintain frontend toolsets (Webpack, Gulp, etc.)
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
- Communicate with the internal team to help clarify development tasks and attend quoting meetings when required.
Required Experience
- 1 year of experience as a Front-End Developer
- Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques.
- 1 year of experience with markup languages
- 1 year of experience with JavaScript (ES6), CSS (SASS or eq.)
- 1 year of experience with modern front end frameworks (at least one of. React, Angular or preferably VueJS)
- 1 year of experience with modern front component libraries (Bootstrap, Tailwind, etc.)
- Knowledgeable concerning clean code, secure coding practices, design patterns, code smells, refactoring, etc.
- Aptitude with code authoring tools (Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code)
- Aptitude with GIT version control
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude.
- Commercial experience with using RESTful APIs
What can we offer you
- A competitive salary based on your experience
- Long term progression plan
- 28 days holiday (this includes bank holidays)
- Additional day holiday for every year you are with us
- Annual profit based bonus
- Regular team socials
- Bike to work Scheme
- Tech Scheme
- Occupational Sick Pay
- Early Friday Finish
- Free Friday breakfast
- Pension Scheme
- Continued personal development
- Relaxed office environment
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £20,000.00-£25,000.00 per year
