Frontend Developer - Mercator Digital

What we’re looking for

Mercator is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Frontend Developer with excellent communication skills who can help Mercator in its continued transformation. You will be open-minded, happy to work on your own or as part of a team and want to learn new technologies and promote best practice.

As a Frontend Developer you will work collaboratively in multidisciplinary agile scrum teams to develop, modify and maintain user interfaces for new digital services. Using agile methods, you will work closely with other members of the scrum team throughout the development cycle in order to design, build, test, maintain and support the new digital services.

Job type

Full time, permanent. We encourage those who may need a more agile approach to the structure of their working day to apply; we are always willing to discuss flexible options where we can.

Location

You’ll be expected to travel to our customer’s site and potentially sites UK wide; working from client/office/home locations as appropriate.

As a Frontend developer you will:

Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well defined user needs
Deliver application designs that meet web standards, ensuring that key elements are built in from the outset
Collaborate with Design Specialists to translate designs into high quality websites, apps, HTML emails, and interactive experiences
Contribute to the development and continual enhancement of products
Partner with Product Managers, Design Specialists, Business Analysts and Software Developers to facilitate a consistent user experience
Participate in the rapid development of user driven digital prototypes
Work in cross functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world class user interfaces for new and existing systems
Ensure that new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for accessibility and can be maintained and improved over the long term.
Provide mentorship and/or line management for more junior Frontend Developers where necessary
Contribute to a culture of continual improvement in which key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved
Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment
Become involved in the wider web development community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other Frontend Developers and identifying best practices we can adopt
Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members within Mercator

Knowledge/experience Skills

You will need:

Use and implementation of modern front-end web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON
Good understanding of web/agile technologies & protocols
Demonstrable experience in automated testing solutions
Proven problem solving skills: able to logically break down a problem into smaller manageable parts to solve
Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
Demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
Experience of programming languages such as Python, Ruby, C#
Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs)
Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring, MVC
Experience with open source solutions and community, including Linux system administration and configuration management skills including Linux experience
Experience with automated testing and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit
Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms
Experience working on technical projects within an agile team
Configuration management skills
Confluence and JIRA
Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences
Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites
Understanding of the use of responsive web design
Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
Understanding of web security best practices and security application design such as OWASP top 10
Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion