Front End Developer

Vortex is a fast-paced, growing company, is looking for an enthusiastic Frontend Developer to join their team and assist with producing fantastic websites for our clients.

Our work includes building Magento 1 & 2  eCommerce stores for merchants across the UK, Europe and the USA with uncompromising build quality, along with providing solutions and strategies that deliver measurable results.

We also have a fantastic office culture – the whole top floor of the office is dedicated to recreation for our team. We have table football and darts for sports, a fully-stocked beer fridge, an HDTV with Netflix, a bean-to-cup coffee machine, a 100 sq ft balcony, and large kitchen area for our staff to enjoy their breaks.

As a member of the Vortex team, you can also benefit from flexible working time and 20 days holiday a year. To top it all off, we have a monthly incentive scheme with a range of treats and fun activities to reward you for all your hard work. From free lunches to days out go karting – we’ve done it all! Just search #vortexincentive on Twitter or Facebook to see what we get up to each month.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Writing frontend code inline with best practices on the Magento 1 and Magento 2 platform. Ensuring that code is written to a high quality standard, self-tested and communicating openly with the project management team to ensure that tasks are well scoped, estimated and delivered.
• Working with the project management team to facilitate new work through the agency – assisting in the writing of functional specifications and development of designs through the agency, ensuring that all deadlines on the project plan are met and that projects are delivered on time and to budget.
• Deliver high quality project work and support the evolution of best practice and standards.
• Where needed be client facing, responsible for presenting your work, taking feedback and critique and helping to guide our clients to the best solutions.
• Providing actionable feedback to other members of the team on quality, best practice and technology
• Design and deliver visual elements to the highest standard
• Take and understand direction from others
• Present, explain and justify implementation of client solutions
• Build and manage relationships with internal teams and clients
• Be an active, motivated and inspired member of the team
• Maintaining a full understanding of company processes, policies, guidelines and contractual obligations and ensuring these are consistently followed.

Benefits Include:

• 20 days holiday, accruing 1 per year of service up to 25 (plus bank holidays)
• Flexitime
• Company contributed pension scheme
• Monthly team incentives (https://twitter.com/hashtag/vortexincentive?f=tweets&vertical=default)
• Latest equipment; Mac, Linux, PC the choice is yours
• One entire floor dedicated to recreation, meetups, games, break etc..
• Modern city centre location over two floors
• Highly competitive salary
• Training and development opportunities including fully paid certifications
• Regular team events

Key Responsibilities:

• Helping champion our key Magento 2 offering.
• Assisting and developing our internal projects.
• Provide feedback and advice for our clients.
• Working collaboratively with the rest of our team (including external client teams).

Skills Required:

• 1 year commercial experience as a developer.
• The right attitude and aptitude.
• A strong understanding of application design and architecture.
• Understanding of MVC and OOD.