Front and Back End Website Developer

Due to continued growth and increased demand, Quality Cottages and Quality Unearthed require a Developer to join our Development team, based in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

This is a full-time contract role and will involve working closely with other highly-skilled members of the wider team including programmers, agencies and internal stakeholders.

The role is perfect for an experienced Front and Back End Developer, who is interested in helping with our growth plans. That said, working as part of a small team means the successful applicant will get to wear many different hats! Possessing the ability to work well in a fast paced environment is crucial.

SPECIFICATION:

The successful candidate will have:
- At least three years commercial experience as a developer
- Excellent technical coding skills with attention to detail, an ordered approach to solving problems and a desire to produce work of outstanding quality and reliability
- A proven track record of working as a front end Web Developer with a keen eye for design. Writing organised, fully standard-compliant code is a must as is the ability to design and code pixel-perfect layouts across multiple browsers
- Experience of integrating with 3rd party API's
- A broad knowledge of SEO and associated analytics to help manage our SEO campaigns
- An understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases and large websites
- A desire to further technical knowledge and gain breadth of experience

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Write clean and elegant code.
- Refactor, simplify and optimise code to develop features more effectively.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members on features, design and implementation and work cohesively to find solutions.
- Think outside the box, adapting the latest software technologies while developing innovative functionality to improve the user experience.
- Assist with the day to day I.T needs of the office.
- Capture bugs, help requests, feature requests.
- Set up email and CMS and owner accounts.
- General troubleshooting and diagnostics.

ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- MySQL
- Experience of a PHP-based MVC frameworks
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Experience of building web UIs in a JavaScript framework such as jQuery or Angular.js

DESIRABLE SKILLS;
- Linux/Unix command line
- Experience of building web sites optimised for mobile devices e.g. CSS3 media queries
- HTML 5 and CSS 3
- Experience with mobile development
- Agile methodologies
- Experience with version control (Git, Subversion etc)
- Knowledge of best security practices
- Unit testing.

This is a 3 month rolling contract, office based.

ABOUT QUALITY COTTAGES:
Quality Cottages is an award-winning self-catering holiday agent based in Cerbid, Pembrokeshire.
The family run business was started by Mr Rees over 50 years ago and has since diversified in to three core brands: Quality Cottages, Quality Unearthed and Quality Villas.We have always and will continue to attract a high standard of property with caring owners.Our professional and progressive approach to technology, continued with our base in Pembrokeshire makes this role ideal for a programmer seeking a highly respected role in a growing rural ecommerce business.

Please note: We are NOT accepting CV's from recruitment agencies!

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