Junior Frontend Developer

Williams Commerce; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holiday

Health care (after one year's service)

EAP Programme

Pension scheme

Healthcare and pension plans

Discounted city parking

Free snacks

Cycle Scheme

Shops and restaurant discounts

Referral schemes

Job summary

Williams Commerce, a digital agency in Leicester, is hiring a Junior Frontend Developer to join a growing team. You will work with designers, backend developers, and project managers to build high-quality, user-friendly websites in a hybrid role (4 days in Leicester, 1 day remote in the UK).

You will develop your skills in a fast-paced environment, staying current with frontend trends and best practices while contributing to new projects and maintaining existing codebases.

Qualifications

• Experience writing CSS at scale (Sass preferred).
• Proficiency in jQuery and vanilla JS.
• Basic WordPress theme work or similar CMS knowledge.
• Familiarity with Git version control.
• Basic PHP knowledge.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous requests.

Responsibilities

• Develop responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into web components.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and contribute to new projects.
• Participate in code reviews and follow established coding standards and best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging frontend trends and technologies.

Skills

CSS at scale

Sass

jQuery

Vanilla JS

WordPress

CMS

Git

Timber/Twig

PHP basics

RESTful APIs

NPM builds

Performance

Accessibility

Tools

Gulp

Webpack

Laravel Mix

Job description

Williams Commerce is a digital agency, established for 15 years and part of the Next15 Communications group, a UK PLC with a global footprint across 50 offices in 15 countries. We help brands grow by redefining and accelerating the digital customer experience, creating rapid value and enabling future digital business.

Role overview

We are looking for a Junior Frontend Developer to join our growing digital team. Reporting to our Frontend Lead / Development Manager, you will work with designers, backend developers, and project managers to build and maintain high-quality, user-friendly websites.

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and gain valuable experience in a supportive, fast-paced environment; perfect if you are at an early stage in your career.

Our hybrid working model is 4 days per week working from our Leicester office and 1 day remote within the UK.

As a Junior Frontend Developer at Williams Commerce, you will:

• Develop responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces using a wide variety of frontend technologies.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into functional web components.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and contribute to new projects.
• Participate in code reviews and follow established coding standards and best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging frontend trends and technologies.

You will bring:

• Experience writing CSS at scale - Sass is a strong advantage (BEM or similar naming)
• jQuery and vanilla JS for carousels, animation, lazy loading, and forms
• Basic knowledge of WordPress theme work, or a similar CMS (e.g. Drupal, Craft, Contentful)
• Comfort with Git
• Timber/Twig or Basic PHP
• Basic knowledge of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling
• ACF, other CMS field/templating tools
• npm-based builds: Gulp, Webpack, or Laravel Mix
• Awareness of performance (image srcset/picture, lazy loading) and a11y (focus states, skip links, semantic HTML)

And in return, Williams Commerce offers:

• Unlimited holiday (paid annual leave)
• Employee health care (after one year's service)
• EAP Programme
• Pension Scheme
• Healthcare and pension plans.
• Discounted city parking
• Free snacks
• Cycle Scheme, Shops and restaurant discounts, referral schemes.

Why Us?

Williams Commerce recognises that managing diversity is a continuous process of improvement and not a one-off initiative. Therefore, we develop and review our diversity strategy on an annual basis to support the achievement of business goals, including ways of addressing the diverse needs of our clients.

As a growing, global company, we focus on fairness and inclusion, ensuring that merit, competence, and potential are the basis for all decisions about recruitment, development and appraisals. Williams Commerce takes pride in keeping up to date with employment law and best practice when promoting equal opportunities and ensuring a diverse workforce.