Location: Ballymena, Northern Ireland. ( Office based 2 days per week)
PlotBox is seeking to hire an experienced Front End Developer who is ready to step up and help enhance the PlotBox product. Working on the Development team, you will play a crucial role in delivering appealing and seamless product enhancements in a fast-paced, agile environment.
As a Front End Developer, you will work closely with the UX/UI team and be responsible for creating an engaging and user-friendly experience by translating design mockups and wireframes into functional components, ensuring a seamless and visually appealing user experience.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for delivering pre-agreed activities within each sprint which will involve:
- Design and develop software using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
- Implement user-friendly interfaces using modern frontend frameworks
- Collaborate with team members on project requirements, planning, and deployment.
- Ensure the alignment of design and development goals to achieve a visually appealing and functional end product.
- Ensure that all development work adheres to internal style guide
- Contribute to quality assurance by developing automated tests and conducting code reviews.
- Ensure that all development work adheres to internal style guide
- Implement web accessibility standards (WCAG and ADA Guidelines) to ensure that web applications are usable by individuals with disabilities.
- Build an understanding and, over time, a strong working knowledge of the PlotBox Product
- Stay updated on the latest front-end development trends, technologies, and best practices to enhance skills and bring innovation to projects
What we are looking for :
- 2+ yrs Proven experience as a Front End Developer or similar role.
- Expert knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
- Experience working with JavaScript frameworks/libraries such as Vue.js, React, or Angular.
- Familiarity with CSS frameworks such as Bulma, Bootstrap, or Foundation, and the ability to use them effectively to maintain design consistency.
- Strong understanding of responsive web design principles and techniques, with a focus on maintaining design consistency across devices.
- Experience using version control systems such as Git.
- Experience working closely with UI/UX designers to translate design mockups and wireframes into functional components.
Desirable Experience - It’s not a deal breaker, but ideally you will have:
- Experience with back-end programming languages (PHP, Java, C#)
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Jasmine or Vitest.
- Familiar with WCAG and ADA Guidelines
- Experience in a consumer-facing business - evaluating and implementing innovative solutions for a broad market audience.
Why should you join PlotBox ?
- We have a clear mission - and a sense of pride in doing what we do - to ultimately lessen people’s pain at the most difficult time of their lives; this means a lot to our team
- We are a global company with over 120 colleagues based across the UK, Australia and North America. You’ll undoubtedly broaden your understanding and appreciation of global operations
- We have a passion for tech and innovation, actively exploiting new and cutting-edge tools and technologies to enhance our product and skillset
- We are proud that, since 2020, we have received our Great Place to Work® Certification™ - our staff have told us loud and clear that they love working for PlotBox
- We have also been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ 2024 - we invest in employee growth; we nurture every career.
- We are a truly diverse and inclusive workplace; we are proud to boast 43% femalé representation - which is almost double the average within the tech industry and helped put us on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women listing in 2023
- Our focus on wellbeing and a supportive culture has seen us ranked on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing list (2023 and 2024)
- One of our core values is trust; you are trusted to do your job without someone micro-managing - we expect people to give their best efforts in return
Life at PlotBox - we appreciate that we may not be the right workplace for everyone, so below we have laid out what life at Plotbox is really like so you can decide if a career at PlotBox is for you !
- We are a growing / scaling company - as such we don't always have everything neatly mapped out so you have to be comfortable with ambiguity sometimes
- A 40 hour working week and core working hours. We ask everyone to be at work during our core hours from 10-4pm but outside of that we have flexible start and finish times so you can balance your work hours around life’s commitments.
- Hybrid working - for most roles, our staff work 2 days per week in the office and we love the opportunity it gives us to collaborate face to face.
- We believe in continuous improvement - so that can mean change is a pretty constant thing for us - we need our people to embrace change as opposed to resisting it
- We believe feedback is crucial to development so we will create a safe environment where you can take onboard feedback and use it to improve - but we can't force you to take the feedback on board; that's your choice
- We will support and nurture you - but we need you to show initiative, be able to tackle problems, roll with the challenges and get stuff done
- There is no room for ego round here - everyone is here because they bring something to the table - all voices are heard and respected
And in case you still can’t decide, here are MORE benefits to joining PlotBox !
- We support our employees’ health and wellbeing with regular wellbeing initiatives and a health cash plan, access to EAP and additional counselling support
- Our life assurance policy ensures your loved ones are looked after should the worst happen *
- Our flexible benefits suite allows you to flex-up (or down) on on benefits depending on what is most useful to you and your family at the time
- We regularly undertake reviews of our benefits package to ensure we are offering the best package for our staff
- Career mobility and progression which is based on merit as opposed to ‘time-served’ as well as the opportunity to travel to our global sites and visit customers when they need us on the ground.
- Active social and charity committee - lots of social events throughout the year including a summer social, Christmas party, Easter events, quizzes, book club, walking groups, coffee mornings and many many more.
- We offer Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership if that’s your thing!
- Our staff referral scheme could see you bag a nice fee if you refer a friend who joins our team
- Quirky office set on a beautiful nature reserve with fully-stocked fridges and larders
- Free parking too!
* not applicable to Fixed term roles
PlotBox is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic that makes you who you are.. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
If you require any reasonable adjustment or wish to speak to a member of our Talent team about tailoring the recruitment process to your needs please email [email protected] stating the role you are applying for.