Senior front-end developer
Permanent | Posted 12.08.2011
Salary negotiable
To apply, please email your CV and URLs to hello@theteam.co.uk
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic web developer who specialises in front-end development. The successful candidate would join our small, but strong development team to work on a wide variety of web development projects.
You’ll need to be an all-round, passionate web developer with at least 3 years of professional experience, but we care more about capabilities than experience.
You should be fanatically passionate about the web, and ready to stand for the principles you believe in while being hungry to learn more about the new technologies and practices in web development.
The Team strongly values the relationship between agency disciplines. We’re looking for someone who isn’t afraid to talk design with designers, or get involved with the server side components of sites.
We’re pro-open source and use, initiate and contribute to various open source projects. We use Git for version control (hosted on Github), mostly Django on the server-side (although we dabble with Node), and we’re completely agnostic about operating systems and development tools. Well, agnostic as a whole, individually we’ll debate to the death about the pros and cons of various Linux distributions and text editors.
CVs featuring a long list of industry buzzwords without evidence will be printed out and set on fire. CVs mentioning DHTML will be printed out twice.
Responsibilities
At The Team, we consider development to be a creative process and are keen to involve developers in projects as early as possible. You will be involved in not just bringing designs to life in the browser, but will also work with our design and EA teams to creative innovative solutions to design challenges.
Working closely with our Django developers, you will create the front-end for a wide variety of web sites and web applications on projects across our client portfolio.
Ensuring high quality, high performance experiences in the browser, and providing guidance and inspiration for the design of exciting user interactions, you will also need to develop with a mind to reaching the widest possible audience.
Required skills
- Intimate HTML and CSS knowledge, with awareness of the latest developments in HTML5, CSS3 and other browser technologies.
- Ability to seek and destroy cross browser issues
- Strong JavaScript skills, including but not limited to, jQuery and knowledge of prototypal inheritance
- Knowledge of unobtrusive JavaScript and progressive enhancement techniques
- Knowledge of client-side performance optimisation techniques
- Comfortable with Linux, SSH, DVCS (such as Git or Mercurial)
- Experience of working with MVC frameworks. (such as Django, Rails, Grails, CodeIgniter, CakePhp)
- Ability to slice and optimise designs in Adobe Photoshop
Advantageous skills
- Experience of Django and Python
- Build processes such as Fabric or Apache ANT
- Continuous integration and automated deployment
- Agile development methodologies
- Agency experience
- Experience of test driven development
- Advanced knowledge of image/audio/video compression techniques
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
- Flash experience
- Experience developing for mobile devices
- Experience developing for assistive technologies, such as screen readers