Job Description
Frontend Developer | Full time | £45k + benefits
Overview
- Full Time
- Hybrid
- Immediate
- Additional Christmas PaidHoliday
- Personal Development Plan and Support
- R&D time to work on new self-generated projects
- Conference budgets at opportunities to speak at and attend events.
- Personalised avatar and mug (cooler than it sounds)
- Flexible and relaxed working
In Brief
It is a pivotal moment in the Rixxo story, one of owning our craft as a centre of excellence in B2B eCommerce, with the opportunity for a Mid Adobe/Magento Developer to become part of a growing B2B eCommerce agency in the heart of Bristol.
Our Mid Adobe/Magento Developer will be responsible for the development of a portfolio of project works; from one-off project works to retainer project works, and from estimating to release.
Character is first, experience is second, with an entrepreneurial spirit to contribute to the growth of a B2B eCommerce agency in the heart of Bristol.
Key Responsibilities
To be the lead or deputy lead developer on project works, with support from a lead or deputy lead developer, alongside the lead project manager.
To ensure excellence in code and coding standards, to Adobe’s standards, with paid-for opportunity to become Adobe certified.
To support the project management cornerstones; scope, time & cost, with fairness to the agency & the client.
To contribute to excellence in documentation for project works in order to support the application of scope.
To have excellence in verbal and written internal communications in order to support the application of time.
To provide accurate estimates on project works, with confidence level and methodology of works, and ensuring excellence in time logging in order to support the application of cost.
You will join a growing engineering department of digital innovators and professionals. As a frontend developer you will be responsible for conceiving and wireframing websites and app designs that meet the clients objectives. Creating interface design and coding in collaboration with the backend team to bring a project to life.
Rixxo are experts in online audience engagement with a commercial focus. Our work covers digital marketing campaigns, highly engaging websites and eCommerce builds, and you will be working across both types of projects. We are looking for creative flair as well as solid engineering skills, combined to deliver really exciting, innovative and accessible experiences. Our mission is to change the way that audiences are engaged in an increasingly digital world and deliver better experiences, every time, on time and in budget.
We expect expertise in JS, HTML and CSS. You’ll need to demonstrate how you bring that expertise to interaction design and engineering for SEO & accessibility. We would also like to see the experience of Node, React and production tools such as Gulp & GIT, but these are nice to have. If you’ve got solid native JS, you’ll pick them up. Speaking of which, you will need to know what ES6/7 is and explain how you use it to build modular, efficient and maintainable code. We want to feel your UX love and be convinced you have a great eye for detail.
Part of this role will be getting involved in the consulting periods with clients and leading them to success. The ability to explain what you do and how well you do it to non-technical people will set you apart from the crowd.
About You
We want the skills listed below but we also looking for someone who works well in a team. Communication skills are vital as you will be one of the main points of contact with our clients. We expect you to be sensitive to the demands of project specification and budget, making recommendations appropriate to both.
We operate a highly collaborative, open management style, so we are looking for a new member of the team who can bring ideas, life experience and a wealth of interests to our projects. You should be up to date on the latest UX and UI thinking and the web technologies that underpin it. We will be looking for insights and suggestions in production methodology and expect immediate contributions in this area on your start in this role.
- At least 2+ years of commercial experience
- HTML, HTML5
- Ajax, JSON, Node
- Basic understanding of PHP
- Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail
- Source control such as GIT or SVN (BitBucket or GitHub)
- WordPress Theme Development
- Magento Theme Development
- Sketch, Invision
- Understanding of UX/UI interaction
Other Benefits as a Frontend Developer
Apart from being part of a passionate and supportive team, working with some of the best brands, you’ll also receive some, all or more than the following benefits.
- Additional Christmas PaidHoliday
- Personal Development Plan and Support
- R&D time to work on new self-generated projects
- Daily Fika (Tea and Cake break with the team)
- Monthly Social Activities
- Conference budgets at opportunities to speak at and attend events.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Personalised avatar and mug (cooler than it sounds)
- Flexible and relaxed working
Apply for this role
If this sounds like an opportunity for you or you have any questions, we would love to hear from you. Please send us your CV using the contact form or via hello@rixxo.com
And if you have a portfolio, Github, or website to show us, we would be keen to take a look, as it would give us a better idea of what you’re all about.
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