Web Developer - £30,000-£40,000
Established in 2006 PerfectHome is a household goods retailer that offers top quality products to customers through flexible weekly, fortnightly or monthly payment options.
Are you a motivated, career-driven professional looking for your next role? If you answered yes then this is the opportunity for you. We're looking for a Frontend Developer to join our expanding IT Department. Based at our office in Colton, just outside of Leeds, you'll be a key factor in ensuring the main customer facing products are built using best practice coding and technical development standards. This includes writing code for responsive web (mobile, tablet, desktop) as well as on mobile specific platforms. You'll need strong JavaScript development background and be used to delivering high-quality software to tight deadlines. You will be delivering bespoke solutions for both internal and external facing platforms for our growing online business. You'll work closely with the Head of IT and the Digital Marketing Teams in delivering the IT and website strategy and plan. You'll also be involved in the full development lifecycle from process & scope, elaboration, to development & testing. We expect you'll be constantly striving to deliver the best possible experience for our customers, making it possible for them to create their perfect home.
Accountability
Delivery Provide accurate timing estimates on work in progress
Working closely with others
Reporting progress updates to stakeholders
On-time delivery
Accuracy to specification
Proven Functionality
Futureproof design & implementation
Activities (tasks to achieve accountabilities)
Work within agile team to deliver new features or maintain existing applications
Create new and innovative features and services that are robust
Create new and innovative user experiences
Create well written, well documented and testable code using modern frameworks
Create well written frontend JS applications using modern frameworks
Essential skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience of setting Development Standards and performing Code Reviews
- Experience of designing large scale web solutions, microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Strong communication skills
- design flare and experience of user experience
- Keen to continuously learn and share knowledge with others
- Experience of working in a fast-paced, agile delivery environment with regular releases to a live environment.
- Rigorous attention to detail.
- Experience and proficiency using cloud-based project management apps such as Jira and Confluence Ability to understand project requirements and to work with other team members
- Passion and interest in e-Commerce and online retail keeping up with the latest trends and advancements in development techniques
- HTML5, CSS3 ,Less ,JavaScript, Version Control, jQuery, Smarty, Responsive Design, Git
- UX skills
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Media creation, images etc
- Basic PHP Jira
- ESI
- Grunt Accessibility and security Test and automation
- Exposure of app development and design
- Any experience with Shopware would be of particular benefit (or similar Content Management Systems)
Benefits:
- Excellent OTE opportunities
- Contributory pension scheme
- 25 days holiday entitlement, increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days (pro rata for part-time employees)
- Your birthday off, every year!
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policies (subject to qualifying conditions)
- Company sick pay (subject to scheme rules)
- Gym membership