Senior Front End Developer

Senior Developer (Email, Web)

Senior Front End Developer responsible for the delivery of day-to-day development projects across large global clients. This role has a specific focus on email and landing pages.

You will therefore be confident in building email and web pages from scratch and will be happy to build interactive/dynamic kinetic elements, whether re-using and improving existing templates or building new features from the ground up.

You will also play an active role in the creative process to ensure that any solutions are practical and deliverable and pixel perfect, working with the Creative and Delivery Teams to see projects through from concept to completion.

Developer Responsibilities

• Creating emails using industry best practice HTML and CSS without the use of WYSIWYG editor with minimal QA feedback
• Support the code base for email templates across the hub, ensuring accuracy, regular review and efficiency are maximised at all times
• Create complex web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP to work across all major browsers and screen sizes with minimal QA feedback
• Testing or amending segmentation and logic within the HTML of emails using ESP-specific languages (AMP Script, Template Toolkit, Liquid, JavaScript) to an excellent standard with little to no reliance on guidance. Any solutions should be demonstrably efficient and effective in the use of these languages, with clear documentation
• Creating interactive and animated email elements that enhance the user experience, as well as prototyping and creating new ways of achieving this with a clear rationale for the user benefit, as well as clear documentation for other developers to follow
• Taking studio approved designs and export assets as web standard assets for HTML build with excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrate an excellent understanding and practice of how to fix bugs in an efficient manner across email and web – common bugs should be documented with solutions/further testing suggestions
• Lead development output of the project team by supporting the professional development of junior team members

Must haves

• Knowledge of email development, web, push, app (detailed knowledge about behaviour & sufficient knowledge about User Experience to ensure solutions are workable)
• Excellent knowledge and application of using code editors
• Excellent understanding of using Adobe Photoshop for slicing and exporting assets for build
• Good understanding of using MAMP (or similar) for local PHP builds
• Good working knowledge of using GitHub as a publishing and source management tool

The company has an excellent package and benefits and a mix of office and remote working to suit.