Our Front End Developers make digital bright and the human experience brighter. What does that mean? It means creating experiences that delight, excite and inspire.
Essential skills & experience
- Ability to work as part of a distributed development team
- Self-starter. Needs to be able to help set own agenda
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable interacting with developers, producers, or even clients
- Ability to ask why. Look past merely doing and asking why a task needs to be done, while offering suggestions and improvements.
- Ability to write modular, reusable, responsive, accessible, standards compliant HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- React experience or another front-end MVC framework (Angular, Vue.js etc)
- Experience with Figma (Sketch / Zeplin / Photoshop will do)
- Ability to self-QA, testing their own code across browsers and devices and debugging as needed
- Experience with Git (or other version control system)
Handy skills
- JAMstack experience, particularly Gatsby or Next.JS
- Knowledge of, or interest in, design. E.g. knows of, or has used, Tailwind CSS or equivalent
- Handlebars or other HTML templating language experience
- SASS or LESS skills
- Knowledge of ES6+ JavaScript features.
- Experience writing documentation.
- Experience working with a CMS. Kentico, Episerver, Umbraco, Sitecore, or Wordpress
- Digital agency working experience
- Node.js knowledge
- WCAG 2.0 accessibility knowledge
- Netlify, or other CI/CD service, knowledge or experience
Key responsibilities
- Working closely with a distributed project team
- Communicating with other devs, producers, designers and clients
- Writing clean, concise, modular and reusable code be it HTML, CSS, JS
- Self-organising daily tasks in Jira, making sure descriptions and acceptance criteria are filled out properly
- Working in a variety of repos and codebases, including traditional CMSs, Jamstack and inherited third party code bases
- Self-testing and QA of own work
- Writing documentation of features for future maintenance
- Managing project CI infrastructure
We're hiring!
We're currently looking for a Senior Digital Producer. Think you might have what it takes to join the Luminary team?
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