Rareloop is hiring a
Web Developer in United Kingdom

Summary

The job description is for a Web Developer role at Rareloop, a B Corp certified Digital Product Studio. The role involves architecting entire sites, executing design, building UI, considering accessibility and performance, producing a clean editing experience for content editors, working with designers, ensuring resilient and well-tested code, and responding to reported issues efficiently. The role can be based in the Southampton office or remotely within the UK with regular travel to the office.

Requirements

• Desire for constant improvement
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Able to multitask
• Excellent communicator
• Organised and thorough, taking ownership
• Ability to recognise and reason about decisions made
• Strong problem solving skills
• High attention to detail
• Experience with component based front end and page builders
• Experience building systems rather than pages
• Experience striking the balance between reuse & repetition
• Experience with OO and MVC WordPress
• Experience with at least one FE JS framework (e.g. Vue)
• Good fundamental knowledge of JS and PHP
• Experience building websites at scale
• Experience with asynchronous programming
• Strong understanding of data and how this is important to FE rendering
• Able to write resilient and defensive components
• Good knowledge of git and associated workflows (branches, squashing, rebasing etc)
• Server-side rendering in PHP with progressive enhancement on the front-end
• Experience with web standards and cross-browser compatibility
• Good knowledge of performance (page speed and interaction)
• Good accessibility knowledge
• An understanding of technical SEO and semantics
• Great debugging and testing skills
• Solid experience using MySQL (or equivalent)

Responsibilities

• You’ll architect entire sites from the tiniest component to whole pages up to the URL level
• You’ll execute the design such that it looks good on any screen
• You’ll apply semantics to content
• You’ll build the UI abstractly such that you can re-use parts and styles efficiently, even across sites
• You’ll consider the accessibility of what renders in the browser
• You’ll be concerned about the performance of the site, which means you’ll deal with how big and how many resources are being used by the browser
• You’ll produce a clean and highly-usable editing experience for content editors
• You’ll work with designers to add flair and personality to a site through interactions and animations
• You’ll take care to ensure your code is both resilient and well tested, with a considered user experience for non-perfect outcomes (e.g. errors)
• You’ll respond to reported issues and resolve them efficiently

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Laravel
• Experience consuming API's in PHP and JS
• Test Driven Development and/or visual regression testing
• Experience with CI and automated processes such as deploy/linting/testing
• Experience working within different project environments and methodologies

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• 25 days holiday
• Sick pay package
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible working location (Southampton or remote)
• A great work/life balance
• Contributory Pension (after 3 months)
• An opportunity to develop & grow your skills within an expert team
• Continuing Personal Development (CPD)
• Yearly training budget
• Free coffee/tea and soft drinks (once the office has re-opened)
• Regular free lunches to celebrate team wins (once the office has re-opened)
• Private Medical Insurance*
• Dental cover*
• Optical cover*
• Eye care vouchers
• Central Southampton office location with free parking