Front End Developer

Portfolio Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services company in Manchester is seeking a Frontend Developer to join their team. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in React, experience building marketing websites, and familiarity with SEO. Responsibilities include improving software quality and supporting the development lifecycle. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in an agile environment with modern technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with building marketing websites and familiarity with website SEO.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and services like Azure DevOps.
• Experience with unit and Cypress testing.

Responsibilities

• Make realistic commitments and strive to meet them.
• Maintain and improve engineering practice.
• Support the BA in the elaboration of requirements.

Skills

React

Gatsby

NextJS

SEO knowledge

Azure DevOps

Unit testing

Cypress testing

Agile environment

GraphQL

DatoCMS

Job description

Posted On: 11th July 2024

Portfolio are proud to be exclusively representing our award‑winning, multinational professional services client in their search for a Frontend Developer.

Day to day Responsibilities

• You make realistic commitments that you are confident of meeting and strive to do so.
• Maintain and improve engineering practice.
• Maintain and improve software quality for features built (TDD, Pairing, Peer Review, Static Analysis).
• Support the product owner and Development Lead in the provision of estimates that are at an appropriate level of fidelity for the phase in the development lifecycle.
• Support the QA in identifying describing and resolving defects.
• Support the BA in the elaboration of requirements.
• You take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of delivery from idea, marketing, sales and operation.
• Manage your own training requirements.
• Attend industry events and share the value with your

Key Skills

• knows React (with experience in the Gatsby and NextJS frameworks)
• experience in building marketing websites (and website SEO knowledge would be great as well)
• Knowledge around continuous integration, services like Azure DevOps
• has experience with unit and Cypress testing
• experience working in an agile environment would be good
• knowledge of GraphQL, as well as any CMS experience (we use DatoCMS)

If you’re interested, please apply and drop me an email at !