Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Manchester
Job Ref: QAD 2539/2312
Pay Rate: Competitive Market Rate
Hours per week: 37 hours per week
Contract Length: Anticipated 12 months
Location: London or Manchester
We are seeking a Front End Developer to be integral part of that team in designing, creating and improving new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.
Knowledge:
- Expert knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS and Sass.
- Expert knowledge of cross-browser considerations.
- Expert knowledge of Responsive Web Design.
- Knowledge of web accessibility and WCAG.
- Knowledge of UX and usability.
- Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
- Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as subversion or git.
- Understand web architecture.
Experience & Skills:
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Proven experience maintaining a large and dynamic code base.
- Experience working on technical projects within a team.
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
- Experience of building high-traffic websites.
Desirable
- Have knowledge of client side build tools: grunt, gulp or similar
- Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
- Have a working knowledge of Mustache templates, Java 7 and Node.js.
- Have experience with test driven development using toolsets such as Mocha and Jasmine