Junior Frontend Developer

Williams Commerce is a digital agency, established for 15 years and part of the Next
15 Communications group, a UK PLC with a global footprint across 50 offices in 15 countries. We help brands grow by redefining and accelerating the digital customer experience, creating rapid value and enabling future digital business.

We are looking for a Junior Frontend Developer to join our growing digital team. Reporting to our Frontend Lead / Development Manager, you will work with designers, backend developers, and project managers to build and maintain high-quality, user-friendly websites.

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and gain valuable experience in a supportive, fast-paced environment; perfect if you are at an early stage in your career.

Our hybrid working model is 4 days per week working from our Leicester office and 1 day remote within the UK.

• Develop responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces using a wide variety of frontend technologies.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into functional web components.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and contribute to new projects.
• Participate in code reviews and follow established coding standards and best practices.
• Debug and resolve frontend issues across browsers and devices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging frontend trends and technologies.

• Solid HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience writing CSS at scale - Sass is a strong advantage (BEM or similar naming)
• jQuery and vanilla JS for carousels, animation, lazy loading, and forms
• Basic knowledge of Word Press theme work, or a similar CMS (e.g. Drupal, Craft, Contentful)
• Comfort with Git
• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
• Timber/Twig or Basic PHP

• React, Next.js, or another modern JavaScript framework
• Basic knowledge of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling
• ACF, other CMS field/templating tools
• npm-based builds:
  Gulp, Webpack, or Laravel Mix
• Awareness of performance (image srcset/picture, lazy loading) and a11y (focus states, skip links, semantic HTML)

• Unlimited holiday (paid annual leave)
• Employee health care (after one year's service)
• Professional development
• EAP Programme
• Pension Scheme
• Healthcare and pension plans.
• Discounted city parking
• Free snacks
• Cycle Scheme, Shops and restaurant discounts, referral schemes.

Williams Commerce recognises that managing diversity is a continuous process of improvement and not a one-off initiative. Therefore, we develop and review our diversity strategy on an annual basis to support the achievement of business goals, including ways of addressing the diverse needs of our clients.

As a growing, global company, we focus on fairness and inclusion, ensuring that merit, competence, and potential are the basis for all decisions about recruitment, development and appraisals. Williams Commerce takes pride in keeping up to date with employment law and best practice when promoting equal opportunities and ensuring a diverse workforce.