Sign-Up.to Permission Marketing API

In a nutshell

Sign-Up.to are looking for a Junior Front-end Web Developer to conceptualise, design and build interfaces across our suite of web applications. You will be joining our Interaction team on a full-time basis, working as part of a larger Engineering team. We are a small, friendly and knowledgeable team, where training and personal development are actively encouraged.

What you will actually do:

• Design and build responsive email campaigns for Sign-Up.to's clients; channeling the latest innovations in design and responsive practices whilst catering for quirks across all major email clients.
• Delivering market-leading quality in responsive email design and ensuring consistent results with tools like Litmus.
• Build web interfaces using the most suitable technologies and libraries, including jQuery, Require, Modernizr, Backbone, Underscore, Normalize, LESS/SASS, Bootstrap and templating engines.
• Develop wireframes/prototypes into tried and tested interfaces which support UX best practices, uphold the Sign-Up.to brand and drive business goals.
• Work with new and existing architecture with varying degrees of scale and complexity.
• Brainstorm, sketch, wireframe and prototype design ideas within the Interaction team.
• Continually push and refine your understanding of responsive email and web, including mobile first practices, graceful degradation, cross-platform compatibility and all facets of user experience/user interface design.
• Work with Git branches, builds and weekly releases in our LAMP environment.
• Prove and improve UX by usability testing, split testing and iterating.
• Have the opportunity to be active amongst London's dev communities and meet-ups.
• See opportunities to learn new skills and receive training.

What you will need:

• A passion for innovation in email design, web development and all things 'tech'.
• Good communication. An energy for idea sharing and knowledge sharing amongst the team and the wider company.
• The ability to work closely with other team members to a very high standard, manage your time efficiently and maintain best practices whilst under pressure from deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience (preferably by portfolio) developing responsive HTML emails and web applications driven by HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (including jQuery).
• Experience designing from a client's brief.
• Knowledge and experience of JavaScript libraries and their daily use.
• Experience debugging issues with HTML, CSS and JS with the appropriate developer tools.
• Experience in Adobe's Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator.

Ideally you will:

• Be well versed in conceptualizing, sketching, designing mock-ups and wireframing.
• Have contributed to a large scale web development from conception through to deployment (and beyond).
• Know how to work with different email clients, browsers, their versions, varied operating systems (including mobile) and their nuances.
• Use Git (or another form of content versioning).
• Have exposure to and preferably experience in using AJAX.
• Know a little PHP 5+ and MySQL.
• Be used to working with legacy code in a continuous integration environment.
• Understand the linux environment and use command line tools to improve your workflow.

Qualifications:

• Three years of experience.
• A passion for innovating in front-end web technologies.

The package:

• Salary competitive, dependent on experience.
• BUPA health cover and private pension plan (subject to qualifying period)
• Regular social events.
• Your choice of Windows, Mac or Linux OS.
• Free fruit, tea, coffee and soft drinks.
• The chance to join a fast-growing, friendly team and make a big difference!