1. Location: Southampton or remote (UK only)
2. Salary: £30-50,000 (DOE)
We’re looking for a talented Web Developer to join our growing team. This is a permanent role (full time or 4+ days per week) and a chance to work with modern technology, a super talented team and some amazing clients .
This role can either be based in our Southampton office (with flexible working and work from home options) or remote from anywhere within the UK. If remote, regular travel to our offices in Southampton will still be required.
What does Rareloop do?
Rareloop is a B Corp certified, award winning Digital Product Studio. We help ambitious businesses and charities to design and build best of breed digital products that have a positive impact for the organisation, specific communities or the environment.
For this role this could mean: a full modern MVC WordPress build, or a highly interactive bespoke UI experience, or maybe an integration with a CRM or payment gateway.
Some recent projects we missed you on…
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How we created a new responsive WordPress website for global Christian charity, New Wine. That better showcased their offering, increased donations, improved user experience and engagement.
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A brand new responsive WordPress website and visual identity for B Corp certified national cleaning company.
What will you be doing as a web developer?
3. You’ll architect entire sites from the tiniest component to whole pages up to the URL level
4. You’ll execute the design such that it looks good on any screen
5. You’ll apply semantics to content
6. You’ll build the UI abstractly such that you can re-use parts and styles efficiently, even across sites
7. You’ll consider the accessibility of what renders in the browser
8. You’ll be concerned about the performance of the site, which means you’ll deal with how big and how many resources are being used by the browser
9. You’ll produce a clean and highly-usable editing experience for content editors
10. You’ll work with designers to add flair and personality to a site through interactions and animations
11. You’ll take care to ensure your code is both resilient and well tested, with a considered user experience for non-perfect outcomes (e.g. errors)
12. You’ll respond to reported issues and resolve them efficiently
Web development these days might also include:
13. Fetching your own data from APIs and manipulate the data as needed for display
14. Dealing with the state of the site on your own
15. Mutating/changing data through user interaction and input and persist that data in state and back to the servers through APIs
Modern Web Developer expectations inspired by Chris Coyier.
Person specification
We’re looking for the right person, someone who’ll fit and enhance our culture and help us deliver on our values.
16. Desire for constant improvement
17. Ability to work independently and as part of a team
18. Able to multitask
19. Excellent communicator
20. Organised and thorough, taking ownership
21. Ability to recognise and reason about decisions made
22. Strong problem solving skills
23. High attention to detail
Desirable experience
24. Experience with component based front end and page builders Experience building systems rather than pagesExperience striking the balance between reuse & repetition
25. Experience with OO and MVC WordPress
26. Experience with at least one FE JS framework (e.g. Vue)
27. Good fundamental knowledge of JS and PHP
28. Experience building websites at scale
29. Experience with asynchronous programming
30. Strong understanding of data and how this is important to FE rendering
31. Able to write resilient and defensive components
32. Good knowledge of git and associated workflows (branches, squashing, rebasing etc)
33. Server-side rendering in PHP with progressive enhancement on the front-end
34. Experience with web standards and cross-browser compatibility
35. Good knowledge of performance (page speed and interaction)
36. Good accessibility knowledge
37. An understanding of technical SEO and semantics
38. Great debugging and testing skills
39. Solid experience using MySQL (or equivalent)
Bonus points
40. Experience with Laravel
41. Experience consuming API’s in PHP and JS
42. Test Driven Development and/or visual regression testing
43. Experience with CI and automated processes such as deploy/linting/testing
44. Experience working within different project environments and methodologies
As a valued part of our team you’ll get
45. A competitive salary
46. 25 days holiday
47. Sick pay package
48. Flexible working hours
49. Flexible working location (Southampton or remote)
50. A great work/life balance
51. Contributory Pension (after 3 months)
52. An opportunity to develop & grow your skills within an expert team
53. Continuing Personal Development (CPD)
54. Yearly training budget
55. Free coffee/tea and soft drinks
56. Regular free lunches to celebrate team wins
57. Private Medical Insurance*
58. Dental cover*
59. Optical cover*
60. Eye care vouchers
61. Central Southampton office location with free parking
*after successful completion of probation
We’re a B Corp
We’re proud to be a certified B Corp! This means we’ve been independently verified to meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. It means we care about the work we do, our team, our culture, our customers, the wider community and our environment. In short, we’re using business as a force for good.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees regardless of an individual’s age, gender, relationship status, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability status.