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Posted on November 16, 2011

The Hut Group has been named as the No1 fastest growing technology company in the North of England (Sunday Times Tech Track 100), winner of the Bank of Scotland Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 and one of Crains Manchester Business “Best Places to Work” within the North West.

The Hut Group retails consumer products such as games, films, electronics, clothing & a range of gifts through its own websites (TheHut.com, Zavvi.com, MyBag.com, MyLabel.co.uk, IWantOneOfThose.com and Gifted.com, amongst others).

Overall Purpose of Role

The Front-End Web Developer will be responsible for updating and improving the front-end of over 20 e-commerce web sites as well as the supporting web sites eg. Blogs and micro sites. The Front-End Web Developer will join a keen and enthusiastic team with a passion for the internet.

The Front-End Web Developer will produce bug free, production ready code and is expected to be multi-disciplined and capable of working through the complete design/development lifecycle.

Role Requirements

The skills and experience needed to fulfill the role, you must:

  • Be very proficient in JavaScript and jQuery and able to demonstrate advanced use of them both. Knowledge of any MVC libraries such as Backbone.js, Ember.js, or JavaScriptMVC and AMD libraries such as RequireJS or CommonJS would be an advantage. Knowledge of JavaScript templating using Handlebars.js or Mustache.js would also be beneficial.
  • Be very proficient in XHTML and CSS with at least 2 years proven commercial experience. HTML5 and CSS3 is an advantage.
  • Show good knowledge of web browser testing, web browser quirks and their work-arounds.
  • Have a good understanding of best practices and current technologies to help drive improvement in the code and the team.
  • Having experience of using version control systems such as SVN or Git is an advantage.
  • An understanding of server side technologies such as JSP or PHP is an advantage.
  • Any experience of building for mobile platforms is an advantage especially using libraries such as jQuery Mobile.

To Apply

Please send all CVs to recruitment@thehutgroup.com

No Agencies please