Front End Developer:
If you’re a skilled Front End Developer looking to work on exciting, creative WordPress projects and working with the newest technologies and languages, we’d love to hear from you.
You’ll play a key role in our small but perfectly formed digital team. You’ll be delivering on exciting upcoming projects for our purpose-led clients, working closely with our development and design leads, as well as a project director and project manager on every project.
You will be passionate about digital development and experienced at coding pixel-perfect interfaces from Figma, following best practice and optimising server load. Transforming great ideas into exceptional digital experiences.
3-5 years experience. Portfolio of real world projects.
About Design Culture:
We’re a UK based agency, founded in 2006, that specialises in design and build of WordPress websites for purpose-led organisations.
What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for a talented and enthusiastic front-end developer to build beautiful, high-performing WordPress websites for purpose-led brands. We are looking for a detail-oriented person with a passion for developing great user interfaces and experiences – that can help shape, build and test websites.
And because we’re a small team, we’re looking for someone who understands we also have a need to support, service and maintain the websites we host for our clients month to month, as this forms part of the role as well.
We’re looking for a good communicator that brings a solid understanding of responsive front-end development and applies best-practice, modular approaches with great attention to detail.
Please apply via webform include a cover letter, CV, and code samples with your application. If
Core Frontend skills:
HTML5 – Semantic Markup
CSS3 – Animations and transitions
CSS Preprocessors (SASS/SCSS)
JavaScript – Vanilla JS, ES6+, OOP JS, AJAX, JSON, TypeScript
Web Components & Lit for building reusable UI components
Twig templating language (Timber in WordPress context)
Developing cross-browser compatible solutions
Understanding of RESTful API design
Knowledge of build tools and package managers (NPM, Yarn, Vite)
Experience with Storybook.js for component development and testing
Fluency with Git version control and Git Flow
Ability to understand and work with third-party APIs
Understanding of performance tools and page speed metrics
Experience diagnosing and debugging errors on the front and back end
Experience with PHP-based back ends (including WordPress where required)
Skills preferred
Relevant degree or qualification:
Experience with Atomic Design principles and component-driven development
UI/UX skills, design sensibility, and attention to detail with web typography
Knowledge of BEM methodology
Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Experience with Shopify (not essential)
Experience with static site generators (e.g. Eleventy, Astro, Gatsby)
Familiarity with modern deployment workflows and CI/CD
Design background a plus
Software:
Figma
Adobe CS
Visual Studio Code, Atom, Vim or equivalent
Terminal (ssh, npm, etc.)
Recruitment Process:
If you look like a good fit from your CV and work examples, we’ll arrange an initial call to get to know you. The next step would be to ask you to complete a development test. If you impress us with your coding skills, we’ll then invite you forward to a fuller second interview.
Working at Design Culture:
This is a fully remote role. We offer flexible working hours, generous holiday, pension scheme and competitive salary.
While we’re advertising a permanent role, we’re also interested to hear from applicants that would like to work with us on a project basis or short term contract.
Salary: Negotiable
No agencies, thank you.