Front-End Web Developer

Front-End Web Developer

3 month Contract

Welcome to the Jacob Bailey Group - an independent, international and award winning Creative Business Services Agency with offices in London, Suffolk, Nottingham and New York. We’re all about connecting relevance through Data, Technology and Creativity, improving our clients’ positioning and profits, while also creating Brilliant Experiences.   

We are looking to appoint a keen and technically able candidate to join our growing team based in Ipswich. Your role will be to assist the front-end development of applications for both our clients and our own SaaS products. You will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects for both local, national and multi-national clients. 

A Front End Developer is passionate about great UX and digital design and dedicated to writing clean and  maintainable code. It’s important that you, are bright, energetic, conscientious and show a desire to learn about new technology and ‘best practice’ development and coding. Essential skills for the role are an excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, working with SaSS, Bootstrap, Adobe Create Suite, Sketch and InVision. Other skills that would be considered beneficial in the role include; Gulp, Vagrant/Docker, Git, jQuery/VueJS/ReactJS/Javascript and Webpack.

GROWTH

• Work with the Technical Studio team to develop front end solutions for both clients and in house projects.
• Be inspired by, and help inspire the talent around you with fresh thinking and new ideas

PEOPLE

• Be prepared to engage in the skills with the wider team
• Seek regular feedback and communicate regularly with the Technical Studio and digital project manager.
• Present release previews to the relevant stakeholders

PROCESSES

• Use the appropriate technology to the deliver the required functionality
• Working to tasks within a task management system for each release
• Write code to the standard as set out by the Senior Developers - which adheres to best practices and the coding standards adopted in the wider Technical Studio team
• Commit code to version control, using the approach adopted by the Technical Studio
• Test your work and the work done by others.

NUMBERS

• Work effectively and efficiently at all times to deliver releases on time
• Understand what’s required of you, and the time allocated to do it.
• Working standard UK office hours – 8:45am to 5:30pm.

We look forward to receiving your application, thank you.