JRW Group - Job Specification
Lead front-end developer
Role summary
JRW Group are seeking a lead front-end developer with extensive experience
developing responsive websites and digital assets.
Reporting to the head of development the role will be responsible for leading
front-end development work, and overseeing junior developer/s to ensure
excellent standards are attained and best practices adhered to.
Skills
Essential:
 Expert in HTML5 and CSS3
 Strong in JavaScript fundamentals
 Popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery
 Good visual and verbal communication
 Responsive Web Design and cross browser/cross platform development
 Adobe Photoshop and/or other Creative Suite programs
 Knowledge of frameworks e.g. Bootstrap, but ability to build website
layouts to match given designs without them
 Interacting with JSON APIs and an understanding of HTTP status codes
 Knowledge and practical experience developing to best practices for SEO
and accessibility
 Experience developing for/with open source CMS (e.g. Umbraco)
Preferable:
 Educated to degree level in relevant subject e.g. Multimedia Design
 Experience working in a financial services environment
 Image manipulation, slicing, and sprite-mapping for multiple PPIs
 Agile development methodologies
 JavaScript frameworks like backbone, ember and knockout
 Producing webview content for Android or iOS developers
 Continuous Integration experience
 Git
 User experience design and information architecture
 Other language and platform experience, Python, Go, .NET, etc.
Person specification
The lead front-end developer will be a highly motivated, professional
individual with at least 4 years background delivering responsive front-end
work and a great portfolio of relevant previous work across all platforms.
With strong attention to detail you will proactively drive efficiencies and new
approaches to enhance coding practices delivering an excellent, compliant
user experience for our customers.
You will be keen to ensure an excellent and consistent standard of code is
maintained across all websites and front-end work.
Working closely with marketing, user experience and digital designer you will
adaptable, capable of working iteratively and making recommendations for
improvements.
You will have a strong awareness of, and enthusiasm for, evolving coding
best practices and standards, and be keen to recommend and implement
improvements to business practices.
You’ll understand technical SEO practices and how to create usable,
accessible websites & solutions, ensuring that digital work JRW Group
delivers is search optimized and tested effectively.
You will encourage and mentor junior developer/s encouraging them to grow
their skills and ensuring the delivery of an excellent standard of code.
You keep on top of current trends and constantly seek innovations that can
improve JRW’s service offering and capabilities, and you share knowledge
throughout the business.
Responsibilities
 Deliver front-end development at an excellent standards and to schedule
across all JRW Group responsive digital development
 Work with the head of development to assign and manage front-end
workflow between yourself and a junior front-end developer
 Have an awareness of business strategy and implement approaches to
best support business objectives
 Work with the marketing and internal design & development teams on all
the details that make for a great user experience, including writing high
quality HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
 Define and retain consistency in delivery of clean, commented code which
adheres to best practices for SEO and accessibility
 Benchmark current websites and define approaches to improve
consistency across all sites
 Contribute to technical documentation and information sharing within and
outside the team
 Contribute to the company development standards and best practices
 Develop yourself by learning new technologies and techniques
 Conduct research tasks including usability tests, A/B testing, and site
surveys; analyse test results and recommend appropriate product /
interface changes
 Implement effective cross platform testing to ensure design integrity is
retained across all relevant browsers
About The JRW Group
The JRW Group is a niche sports insurance provider – our insurance portfolio
currently includes golf, cycling, shooting and fishing plus 200 other sports. We
are an ambitious, rapidly growing company and need talented people to join
our team. If you want to work in a fast paced, busy environment where you
can really make your mark, The JRW Group is the place for you.
To apply for this role please email your CV to: [email protected]