An exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced digital marketing company on a permanent contract basis located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Our client requires a Web Developer to join its dedicated team of professionals working on a growing portfolio of Magento ecommerce stores.

If you would like to work in a collaborative and creative environment with like minded experts this opportunity should not be missed.

Communication skills are essential in this role as you will be an integral part of a tight knit team working very closely together.

• Working closely with designers to create new ecommerce stores.

• Maintaining current store portfolio.

• Implementing web development projects and tasks – mainly front end modifications, but also implementation of back end modules.

• Carrying out stringent testing on all sites and projects ensuring effective functionality is maintained.

• Using industry insight and initiative to discover new ways to improve current website portfolio and user experience.  

Required Skills

To be considered for this position you must have a complete understanding of the following:

• PHP

• HTML/HTML5

• CSS/CSS3

• JavaScript

• jQuery

• MySQL

• GitHub

• OOP

• Linux

Essential traits

• Excellent coding standards and methodologies.

• Excellent communication.

• Eager to learn and work within a small team.

• Consistent programming practices.

• Very good debugging skills.

• Very good organisational and project management skills.

Preferred Skills

An understanding of the following is preferred for this role:

• Magento

• Prototype

• Other JS libraries

• Zend Framework

• SASS/Less

• Grunt

• MVC architecture

• Wordpress

• Bashe

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Pension scheme
• Great starting salary
• Opportunity for progression
• Flexible Time
• Home Working

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