Front End Web Developer

Richer Sounds; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electronics retailer in Manchester is looking for an enthusiastic Front end BigCommerce Developer to join their in-house e-commerce team. This full-time position involves developing user-facing features, optimizing applications, and collaborating with designers to enhance their BigCommerce site. Strong experience with JavaScript and BigCommerce is essential. The company also offers a variety of attractive benefits to its employees.

Benefits

Exclusive access to holiday homes

Colleague discount on products

Birthday holiday

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Contributions to healthcare and fitness

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience working with transactional dynamic, responsive sites.
• Good understanding of debugging techniques.
• Knowledge of browser rendering behavior and performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.

Skills

Experience with BigCommerce, including Stencil

Strong understanding of JavaScript

Good understanding of HTML, XML, CSS

Good working knowledge of Handlebars.js

Tools

Google Analytics

PHP

Git

Job description

Richer Sounds are the UKs leading Hi-Fi, Home Cinema and TV specialists, and one of the largest Employee-Owned businesses in the UK.We are looking foran enthusiastic Front end BigCommerce Developer to join our in-house e-commerce team based in Manchester.You will be working alongside our current developers to enhance our BigCommerce site.

Work will include a variety of tasks such as; ongoing maintenance tasks, bug fixing, making performance improvements, planning and developing enhancements and new features and QA testing/ documentation, all with the ultimate goal of improving our customer experience.

You will also collaborate with and provide technical support to our team of designers to help spec out new or improved features and designs. The role will require working with BigCommerce and BCs native Page Builder, as well as other third party apps including Shogun and Klevu.

Please note that this role is full time in the office with no option for home working, so it is essential that you can reliably commute to Openshaw, Manchester.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Evaluating requirements, specifications, and code - analysis, problem definition & solution
• Development
• Code reviewing & initial QA of peers work
  
  

Essential Skills

Who we are looking for:

• Experience with BigCommerce, including Stencil.
• Good understanding of HTML, XML, including styling using CSS, Sass / SCSS.
• Good working knowledge of Handlebars.js.
• Previous experience with transactional dynamic, responsive sites.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript.
• Good understanding of debugging techniques, browser rendering behaviour and performance.
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Google Analytics and Google Ads.
• Competent using PHP.
• Working knowledge of libraries / toolkits such as Handlebars, JQuery, JQuery UI, Require.js, Grunt and Gulp.js
• OOP & functional programming.
• Asynchronous control flow, partial page updates, AJAX.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (Git)
• Experience using JSON and REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Experience using GCP / AWS environments.
  
  

What can we offer you?

• Exclusive access to various holiday homes around the UK and Europe, at a generously subsidised rate.
• Colleague discount on products, including friends and family discount.
• 1 extra day of holiday for your birthday per year!
• Long-service awards.
• Suggestions scheme with monetary awards.
• We are an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) whereby the colleagues own 60% of the business, receiving a share of the profits (after 12 months service).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• Contribution towards Benenden private healthcare.
• Various company contribution schemes including gym memberships and exercise classes, eye tests and glasses, dental, hearing tests and shoulder/ back massages.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Cash incentive for colleagues who stop smoking.
• 50% towards the subscription to Headspace and mental health applications.
• Extra day off to take a child to their 1st day at primary/secondary school.
• Sickness benefit scheme.
• Contribution to course or exam fees relevant to the job.
• Low interest loans.
• Take your pet to work scheme (Restrictions apply).
  
  

Please note, some of the benefits are only available to our colleagues after 6 or 12 months of service.

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