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Front End Web Developer

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Frontend Developer
Amplience
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Front End Developer

About Amplience

We’re here to rid the world of bad shopping experiences. 

It’s a bold aim, and one that needs both a dynamic team and a very different way of working. 

That’s why we want people who can weave their unique skills, experience and character into a global team that learns, shares, grows and succeeds together. 

Our people are all stewards of the business, helping us to win through care, commitment and conviction – and in return we open up a whole new world of flexibility around where, when and how you work. 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Amplience. We have new leadership, new goals and new opportunities. So let’s find out where you fit in… 

And if you’re still wondering what we actually do Amplience is the AI Content company that brings together data, performance insights and generative AI. We help 400+ of the world’s biggest brands, from Liberty and Mulberryto Argos and Crate & Barrel, deliver persuasive content for every shopping context, fueling truly personalised and connected experiences. 

 

Location: Middlesbrough / Manchester / London / Remote / Hybrid

Employment Type: Full Time 

Expected Salary: £50k 

Role Availability: Immediate 

Typical Hiring Process: 

  1. HR culture, fit, ability to work interview (~30m Remote) 

  1. Departmental interview (~45m remote)

  1. Optional cross team validation interview (~45m remote)

 

What to expect 

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who has an eye for exciting, engaging web design that consistently elevates the marketing of our brand and website.  
 
The successful candidate is a creative and detail-oriented, systemic thinker, who enjoys defining and building web design patterns, elements, and resources. It is a highly collaborative role that works with product marketing and solutions teams. 

This role presents an exciting opportunity to help evolve a world-class website that is at the heart of our go-to-market strategy.

You will be focused on building, maintaining and providing best practice for Front End Website applications in Amplience.

You will use a mix of technologies including web technologies (JavaScript/ReactJS/NextJS), backend technologies (NodeJS) as well as specific technologies required to support deployments and integrations with 3rd party platforms such as Analytics.

You should have a good technical understanding to be able to accurately size work OR highlight the investigation required to do so (ie, spikes)

 

What you’ll do / Key Responsibilities 

Contribute towards the company’s successes by developing and designing components for our website. The successful candidate will work on improving existing projects and processes with the opportunity for new projects.
 
The candidate will have a keen eye for design and understands the importance of design systems in everything they create. They can demonstrate the ability to collaborate with a creative team and add technical know-how to ideas that are explored.
 
You are an excellent communicator who thrives either working as part of a team or on self-motivated projects. Your day-to-day focus will be varied – building web components and page designs that are created in Figma, website feature development, bug fixing and optimising website performance.
 
Whatever the task, you are the type of person that enjoys jumping in, learning more, and solving problems. We are, at our foundation, a modern technology company, so the successful candidate will share our passion for all things tech, with an appetite for presenting complex concepts in a simple and cohesive manner for our customers.

Primary focus:

  • Developing and maintain the Amplience corporate website ( www.amplience.com )
  • Assist with usage documentation
  • Working closely other stakeholders in your team (Developers, QA and VP Product Solutions)

Secondary Focus:

  • Assist teams with other Front-End web applications which may include demos or documentation sites etc
  • Close communication with product and engineering for opportunities to improve sites with updated product capabilities

  

What we are looking for 

Primary Skills: 

  • Solid working experience as a Front-End Web Developer (3+ years of website development)

  • Understanding of MACH architecture (Microservices, API First, Cloud, Headless)

  • Experience working with Headless technologies especially CMS

  • Great modern Front-End web experience (React, NextJS, Typescript, Vue etc)

  • Knowledge of Atomic Design methodology, and how this applies to everything they create

  • Good understanding and implementation of performance improvements (Site speed etc)

  • Good understanding of SEO and compliance best practices

  • Experience of building multi-locale websites

  • A good understanding of Figma, and its relation to the web development process 

  • Basic Front-End experience (HTML / CSS / JS / Handlebars)

  • Previous experience working with any of the following: REST APIs, GraphQL, Webhooks, Handlebars, JSON and/or a CMS platform is a plus

  • Strong source control, version control knowledge (ie. git, releases)

  • Good collaboration with cross discipline team

  • Scripting experience (NodeJS, Bash etc)

  • Ability to develop with testing in mind (ie. unit tests / end-to-end tests)

  • Ability to contribute to design sessions using whiteboarding tooling such as Miro

  • Cross team collaboration for the broader business to help, review & learn from

  • Risk assessment – ensuring that solutions have no or limited downtime and non-breaking changes

 

Secondary Skills:

  • Cross team collaboration for the broader business to help, review & learn from 

  • Some knowledge of hosting technology 

  • Ability to document solutions so that others can pick up and understand how to run / use 

  • Share responsibility across full lifecycle of a feature including contributing to QA / UAT

 

About You

  • Genuine excitement of working in the content / commerce ecosystem 

  • Good collaboration skills (ie paired programming and working with QA) 

  • Ability to contribute to find the best solutions 

  • Desire to work with new and old technologies and continuous learning 

  • Ability to accurately size projects 

  • Good coding practices 

  • Good organisation skills 

  • Good co-ordination skills 

  • Ability to context switch depending on business priorities / urgency 

  • Good problem solving skills

  • Ability to be creative with solutions
 

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