Job Title: Front End Web Developer
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Dependent on experience
Job Type: Permanent, full time
Closing Date: 29th April
Front End Web Developer:
As a front-end web developer, you will be responsible for the progression and maintenance of our company websites, with tasks including the creation of new pages and sites, responsive design, refactoring, deploying content to test and live servers, and other web related duties.
You’ll be able to work in a small team, and day-to-day you’ll be reporting to the Head of Digital Marketing. You’ll work alongside our existing web developer, and an experienced digital marketing team.
Responsibilities as a Web Developer:
- Creation of new pages for products, articles, case studies, amongst more.
- Development of new websites for international markets.
- Oversee and manage refactoring of existing sites to good coding standards.
- Support, implement, and develop responsive design for existing sites.
- Peer coding reviews via pull requests, checking work for mistakes.
- Deploying new content and hotfixes to live via a CI/CD pipeline (training provided).
- Review health of our overall site’s infrastructure.
- Provide monthly key performance indicators (KPI’s) results.
- Produce and review existing web documentation on Confluence.
- General web admin.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Worked with flat HTML sites (not in a framework), vanilla JavaScript or legacy jQuery.
- Good understanding of HTML 5 validation and is aware of the W3C Nu Validator.
- Bachelor’s degree in a web development related course an advantage.
- Commercial experience an advantage.
- A passion for good coding standards and attention to detail.
Desirable Skills:
- Has worked with CSS3 and front-end design and implementation.
- Worked with the Atlassian ecosystem – Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Slack, and Trello.
- Worked with Git either using command line or Windows/Linux applications.
- Has been part of the peer review process (pull requests in Bitbucket).
- Has worked in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, XP).
- Is able to spot and fix erroneous HTML mark-up, JavaScript code (i.e., reading error logs or console errors).
- An advantage to write readable PHP code to PSR 2 standards, PSR 12 an advantage.
- Has experience with Bitbucket Pipelines.
- Has worked with WordPress.
- Has an understanding of SEO.
Benefits:
- Optional hybrid working, subject to candidate,
- 31 days’ holiday (inclusive of annual, bank/public days).
- Access to a contributory company pension scheme.
- The opportunity to increase learning through appropriate training.
Joining Armagard will open areas of growth to you in web development. You will be working with international websites in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish. Armagard Ltd is an established, award-winning manufacturer from Birmingham promoting products worldwide.
Armagard has over 30 years of international industry experience in the design and manufacture of protective environmental enclosures for displays and IT hardware, across a range of industries from digital signage to food manufacturing. Over 100,000 Armagard enclosures protect screens and computers for businesses in 54 countries worldwide.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Web Developer, Web Designer, Front End Web Developer, Web Development, Software Development, JQuery, SQL, Web Engineer, HTML, PHP, Java, CSS, JavaScript, SQL Server, Bootstrap, MYSQL, WordPress, Front End Developer, Web Design, SQL Developer may also be considered for this role.
