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, get in touch.

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.

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 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.