Front End Developer (Remote Fixed Term Contract)

Emperor; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a proactive Midweight Front-End Developer to support and maintain their websites. The role involves collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality code, ensuring responsive and accessible interfaces, and participating in code reviews. Ideal candidates will have at least 3 years of experience in front-end development, with a strong grasp of modern technologies and a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 3 years of professional front-end development experience.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Maintain responsive, accessible interfaces using modern front-end technologies.
• Collaborate with designers to ensure design-matched, performant user experiences.

Skills

Node

GIT

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Responsive Design

Tools

Umbraco CMS

Jest

React Testing Library

Job description

Front End Developer (Remote Fixed Term Contract)

Emperor Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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We’re looking for a proactiveMidweight Front-End Developerwith at least3 years of hands-on experience to help support and maintain the websites we develop.

You’ll work with our Client Support team day-to-day, with support from the wider Technical team, including our Senior developers.

Our aim is to deliver high-quality code, so it is important to understand best-practice code structure, as well as performance and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain responsive, accessible interfaces using modern front-end technologies.
• Collaborate with designers to ensure design-matched, performant user experiences.
• Write clean, modular, maintainable code following team conventions and best practices.
• Resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Participate in regular code reviews and take feedback constructively.
• Contribute to technical planning, estimation, progress meetings, and standards.
• Stay curious and engaged with new front-end tools and technologies.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3 years of professional front-end development experience.
• Experience with Node – running build scripts, switching node versions etc.
• Familiarity with version control (GIT) and common workflows (feature branches, pull requests).
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to learn.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with GTM tags and triggers
• Experience with Handlebars templating system,
• Razor / Cshtml templates
• Experience using Umbraco CMS,
• Experience with component libraries or design systems.
• Basic front-end testing knowledge (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library).
• Experience with headless integrations.
• Experience consuming REST APIs.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling.

PLEASENOTE: – We may need the front end developer tooccasional need work outside normal office hours.

Next Steps

About the Role:

We’re looking for a proactiveMidweight Front-End Developerwith at least3 years of hands-on experience to help support and maintain the websites we develop.

You’ll work with our Client Support team day-to-day, with support from the wider Technical team, including our Senior developers.

Our aim is to deliver high-quality code, so it is important to understand best-practice code structure, as well as performance and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain responsive, accessible interfaces using modern front-end technologies.

• Collaborate with designers to ensure design-matched, performant user experiences.

• Write clean, modular, maintainable code following team conventions and best practices.

• Resolve issues in a timely manner.

• Participate in regular code reviews and take feedback constructively.

• Contribute to technical planning, estimation, progress meetings, and standards.

• Stay curious and engaged with new front-end tools and technologies.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3 years of professional front-end development experience.

• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS (box-model, flexbox), and modern JavaScript.

• Experience with Node – running build scripts, switching node versions etc.

• Familiarity with version control (GIT) and common workflows (feature branches, pull requests).

• Good understanding of responsive design, browser compatibility, and accessibility.

• A collaborative mindset and willingness to learn.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with GTM tags and triggers

• Experience with Handlebars templating system,

• Razor / Cshtml templates

• Experience using Umbraco CMS,

• Experience with component libraries or design systems.

• Basic front-end testing knowledge (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library).

• Experience with headless integrations.

• Experience consuming REST APIs.

• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling.

• Experience with a modern JavaScript framework

PLEASENOTE: – We may need the front end developer tooccasional need work outside normal office hours.

Next Steps

If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck!

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Design Services

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