Job description
Are you a talented Web Developer with a passion for front end? Do you enjoy working as part of a small team? Fancy joining a certified Great Place to Work?
Want to know a little about us?
At SquaredUp, we make complex data simple—simple to share, find and understand. The world today is drowning in data and starved of information. Via cutting-edge data visualization technology, SquaredUp connects and surfaces data, giving organizations the big picture.
But at the heart of what makes SquaredUp special is its people and its values. At SquaredUp, we are a generous, fun-loving team of bright sparks powered by a core set of values—Integrity, Passion and Togetherness. As a close-knit, remote-first company working across the UK and the US, we prioritise a happy workforce as we are excited about charting new territories. Recently ranked 4th Best Tech Company to work for, we live & breathe our values.
What would you do in your first 6 months?
This role is a unique opportunity to grow as a developer and work on various exciting projects across the business. You’ll be working alongside some very talented individuals on a broad range of websites. The ideal candidate will enjoy collaborating with the team and bringing their own insights.
- Work alongside designers to develop creative website experiences & layouts to help strengthen our content
- Communicate with business colleagues to gather and refine requirements and specifications for development projects within agreed-upon timelines
- Build customizable WYSIWYG website templates for our content editors & assist them in creating quality technical content
- Creating integrations with APIs and microservices to pull in content into sites & tools
- Implement analytics tracking to help improve our sites user experience
- Write efficient maintainable code using web development best practices
- Perform thorough testing of new features on staging sites before deploying to production
- Monitor website performance, performing refactors & optimisations where necessary to improve existing code, as well as bug fixing issues across our sites
- Help maintain our web servers & pipelines, applying occasional updates to our infrastructure
- Stay up to date with new trends, tools and advancements in web development as well as keeping aware of browser compatibility with new features
- Create and maintain documentation for software, processes & code used
What skills can you bring to SquaredUp?
- React
- Frontend development (Javascript & CSS)
- CSS pre processors such as Sass, Scss or PostCSS
- Integrating with REST APIs
- NextJS (preferable)
- Analytics tracking scripts (i.e. Google Tag Manager)
- Responsive development & cross-browser testing
- Typescript (basic)
- Wordpress Gutenberg (not essential)
- Interest in motion & interaction (incl. GSAP)
We don’t expect candidates to have experience in all of these, but knowledge of some and a willingness to learn is desirable.
If you have talent in abundance, we have the packages to match; including private medical care, a generous holiday allowance, home set up budget, volunteering days and company share options. Most importantly you’ll be working with talented individuals who like to have FUN…. from tech meetups to roller-coasters, poker, table tennis, board games, bake-offs, and music nights – there’s always plenty going on. Not to mention our Slack channel which is full of randomness
SquaredUp knows there’s more to life than just work and our dedicated Wellbeing Team are here to support you! We want to encourage you to stay active, connect with your mental health, and overall achieve a great work/life balance.
Apply now or get in touch with our Talent team for more details. Please provide examples of previous front-end development work to support your application
SquaredUp is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your socio-economic background, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, age or disability.