Front End Website Developer

Our purpose

We are a progressive marketing agency. We work with B2B technology clients that help people live healthy, sustainable, flourishing lives. We design, build and run Difference Engines that power long-term success.

Your purposeAs an experienced front-end Website Developer your purpose is to develop high performance, accessible, HubSpot websites based on a provided design for our clients.

Responsibilities- Follow the Articulate process to deliver websites for our clients and make suggestions on improving it.

• Seamlessly translate designs from Figma into user-friendly HubSpot themes, ensuring every detail from the designer's handover is accurately implemented.
• Develop responsive HubSpot themes following the latest best practices, set up a staging environment and build website pages.
• Write clear, organised comments and documentation for code and processes.
• Run through QA checklists (pre-launch and post-launch), set up redirects and manage the website go live process.
• Apply technical SEO best practices from the start of each project, helping websites achieve strong search visibility.
• Understand what our clients do and what their goals are in order to translate those into both exceptional, functional and accessible websites.
• Liaise with other departments, studio members and developers in order to deliver the best possible work.
• Support in R&D projects, scoping projects and bring innovative solutions that are backed by solid research, which solve a client?s given challenge.
• Perform site audits and build conversion-rate-optimisation recommendations that you are able to present to a given client using a strong rationale and backing up your recommendations by data.
• Participate in client discussions and develop a rationale to back up your development decisions.

Skills- Advanced understanding of vanilla JavaScript, CSS (SCSS), HTML and VS Code (HubSpot, HubSpot CMS and HubL are a plus) demonstrated by tangible and modern Github repo examples (and live examples).

• Working knowledge of Figma necessary for development. i.e. Extracting images in the right format, variables, font sizes, spacing/measurements etc.
• Good understanding of performance optimisation techniques (especially core web vitals) to ensure high-performing, efficient websites.
• Experience with responsive and mobile-first design principles to create websites that look and perform well across all devices. (Demonstrated with portfolio examples)
• Fundamental understanding of how design and development correlate and the ability to translate a design accurately based on the designer hand-over.
• Understanding of GitHub (version control, branching, PR)

Competencies- Inquisitive and curious to learn things that go beyond your field of work, with a genuine interest in websites, technology and marketing. We?re all geeks at Articulate!

• Have great problem-solving skills and be able to think laterally in order to find solutions to a creative problem. We value resourcefulness!
• Have great attention to detail and a methodical approach to work - we?re all about processes and logical next steps!
• Able to work independently when necessary, but with a strong team ethos. We thrive on bouncing creative ideas to one another and always work in pairs (where one person leads the project and the other reviews it and provides feedback on it).
• Recognise that feedback is a gift and embrace it in an ego-less manner, whether it comes from your team leader, one of your colleagues, or a client.
• Passionate about website design and UX/UI practices and constantly looking for learning opportunities and inspiration.
• Adaptable to continuously evolving web and development technologies, with a commitment to staying current with the latest tools and frameworks?while maintaining a strong focus on the fundamentals and core foundational languages of the web.
• User-centred approach that prioritises end-user experience, ensuring our websites are intuitive, engaging, and effective for every visitor.
• Continuous improvement mindset that seeks to refine both personal work and team processes, always striving for better results and efficiencies.
• Self-disciplined, proactive and unafraid of sharing and welcoming new ideas within the company in a remote working setting.
• Able and comfortable working on more than project at a time, with a proven ability to deliver on commitments (both in terms of deadlines and quality of work).
• Excellent communication skills, both internally and in client-facing environments, enabling transparent progress updates and the confident early identification of issues to prevent any negative impact on the project.

Benefits

• £35-45k salary per annum plus performance-based bonus schemes
• £840 per year happiness account for personalised work-related training and other business-related personal expenses
• Phone and home-working allowance of £336 a year
• 33 days holiday a year (including bank holidays)
• A commitment to 12 paid training days and 2.5 paid volunteering days a year
• Private medical insurance and employee assistance program
• Workplace pension
• Other benefits, such as access to the company Kindle library and LinkedIn Learning
• The freedom and flexibility to work from home. We've been a remote-working company for decades. Our culture celebrates and supports remote working.