Join the team — Junior Front End Developer

Pomegranate is currently on a path of exciting growth — we have big plans for 2017! This month we’re on the lookout for a full time Junior Front End Developer to provide essential support for our lead developer.

Who are we?

We are Pomegranate Media, an agency recognised as experts in customer experience design. We deliver tangible results for clients with challenger brands, who need to solve identified and unidentified business needs.

We’re a passionate and friendly team, who collaborate to create real value for our clients. We’re firm believers in user-centered design principles and consistently apply them to every project, no matter what sector or company size we’re dealing with. Our approach to design, which we call Emotional Ignition, is based on aligning business needs with both functional and emotional needs of the users in order to create a well-balanced customer experience for our clients.

Our agency focus is on continued learning, to ensure we provide best-in-class service for our clients. As a result Pomegranate is a great place to grow and gain varied experience. Every team member has an area of ownership and considerable input into key decisions, including determining your own approach.

About you

You are highly ambitious with clear talent and want the right agency to show off your skills while being trained to the highest standards.

You are a team player, who would be confident communicating with others in a cross-functional environment — UX designers, UI designers, business analysts, content creators, developers, marketers. You are passionate about technology and are always on the lookout for new ways to tackle challenges, while appreciating established frameworks.

You’ll be able to think strategically, contributing to parts of our technical strategic plan and output to help our partner brands and their digital needs. You will have a high energy and pace of work.

Required skills and experience:

• Someone who’s willing to learn and has a can do attitude
• Proficient in HTML5
• Proficient in CSS3
• Understanding of jQuery and Javascript but not necessarily advanced
• Understanding of PHP but not necessarily advanced
• Developing Wordpress and Drupal themes/plugins

It’s not essential, but knowledge or experience in the following areas would be useful:

• SASS
• NPM
• GIT
• JIRA
• Using task runners, such as Gulp/Grunt
• Use of CLI

Experience level: Junior

Employment Type: Permanent; full-time; available asap.

Where to apply? Please send your CV along with salary expectations and a portfolio or any sample work to jo.l@pomegranate.co.uk.

Unfortunately due to the high volume of applications we receive we may only able to respond to candidates shortlisted for an interview.

Please note, we are not engaging recruitment agencies for this role.