Front End Web Developer

Job Description

About us:

Damteq® started back in 2006 and we are proud of becoming one of the most stable, well-respected, and top reviewed Digital Growth Agencies in the south of England. We’ve achieved unprecedented growth (over 45% year on year) and we’re continuing to grow every single day. We’re a really exciting company and we’d love you to get in touch to see what you can bring.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a challenging but rewarding Digital Agency, with the possibility of starting straight away. Due to continued growth, we are urgently seeking a WordPress Specialist/Front End Web Developer to join our already talented and successful team at Damteq.

Working at Damteq is challenging but rewarding. We work to incredibly high standards to deliver the best outcomes for our clients and employees. We provide a lively environment to grow within and hold long term rewards for those who want to collectively join us on our journey.

You’ll need to be passionate, driven, adaptable, and have a positive attitude.

Our team is bloody good at what they do, so you need to bring your ‘A game’. You’ll be enthusiastic with a positive attitude; dedication and willingness to work hard, sometimes under high production pressure. Your responsibilities will include working on developing multiple complex WordPress websites to deadlines for our clients, pro-actively working using your own time management to complete projects on-time.

The successful candidate should have:

• Front end designer and back end development experience ideally.
• Minimum 2 years experience of PHP programming, MySQL, SASS, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience working with Agile and Scrum techniques
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins.
• Experience using GIT, MAMP and Gulp
• Experience of API’s ideal
• Experience of software like Asana and Slack
• UX focused developer
• Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with the WordPress coding standards
• Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and re-usable code
• Theme/Template integration
• Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues
• Use of jQuery / AJAX / HTML / CSS / Javascript an advantage

Ideally, the successful candidate will also have:

• Have used other CMS/eCommerce based web platform i.e WordPress, Woocommerce.
• Have great communication skills
• Software Dev Experience

To apply for the role you must have at least 12-18 months’ experience in a similar role (in-house or agency) or the ability to demonstrate a high-level working knowledge of Web Development.

It is important that you have a broad digital understanding and have the ability to build bespoke websites for clients at all levels. We are looking for candidates who can hit the ground running, and are passionate about digital innovations. This role involves constant communication with clients so experience with account management would be advantageous. In return, you will be given the opportunity to work with a leading agency and work across a range of creative campaigns where you will play a key role in delivering branding projects nationally.

Ultimately we’re all as unique as you, and we’re sure that you’ve got some really great hidden skills that you’ve never been given the opportunity to show. Our job is to work with you, to find and use those skills, so you can come to work and love what you do, every single day.