Middleweight Web Developer
Salary £30,000 per annum
Annual leave: 20 days, plus 3 days between Christmas and New Year. After 5 years of service, an additional day will be added per year for 5 years, adding up to a total of 25 days.
Office based: 2 day discretionary working from home.
Location: Leicester, LE19 1WL
Are you an enthusiastic, passionate full stack developer looking for an opportunity to make your mark. Then Reach Marketing Communications is looking for you. Reach has an eclectic client base ranging from industrial property to the arts and professional services. They pride themselves on delivering highly creative solutions, genuine value, and the highest standards of service.
You will be working with the senior web developer to take their online offer to the next level. Daily technologies will involve work with Wordpress, PHP, MySQL & Javascript.
You will also be working alongside Reachs creative studio team to produce bespoke performant websites for a wide range of clientele. No two designs are the same and often you will be required to think outside of the box to complete tasks. As such a strong understanding of CSS will be required for this role.
You will also be required to maintain/update our legacy PHP based websites which range from WordPress to vanilla PHP/mySQL based systems. These range from large property import scripts to ticketing systems built using third party libraries.
You will also often be required to build bespoke HTML emailers to be sent out via Campaign Monitor (similar to mailchimp).
Key responsibilities:
Building bespoke websites per the design studios brief whilst adhering to accessibility and best practices.
Liaising with clients and the design team to share ideas and best-practice knowledge
Researching technical requirements for new projects and assisting with developing client proposals
Sharing technical knowledge during the wire-framing and design stages
Providing on-going support to resolve errors and/or bugs
Building HTML emailers
Maintaining version control through GIT / Github
Updating and maintaining existing websites
Essential skills and experience:
HTML
CSS
Mobile-first front-end development
PHP
Javascript
MySQL
WordPress Development (custom themes / plugins)
SSH / Command line
GIT
HTML Emailers
Communication, organisation and time-keeping skills
Good to have skills and experience
Some experience of Plesk or other cPanel software
DNS management
Email Campaign systems (eg Campaign Monitor / Mailchimp etc)
Adobe Creative Suite (for management of assets)
Typescript
AWS experience
React
Gulp / Webpack / Grunt
GSAP
We are currently based in Meridian Business Park Near Junction 21 M1, close to Meridian Leisure Park and Fosse Park Shopping Centre. Free parking is provided.
TPBN1_UKTJ