Front End Developer Midweight

Overview

Cold Banana is an award-winning digital company based in Bournemouth, England. Although the business is only seven years old, it has grown to a team of more than 30 full-time people. Its projects span charities, financial organisations, and public sector work, with a focus on building technology that improves everyday online experiences. The company places strong value on its people and describes employees as its most important asset.

This is a full-time opening for a Midweight Front End Developer with .NET knowledge to join the expanding development team. The team works hard, keeps things enjoyable, and takes pride in delivering polished, high-quality products.

The successful person will contribute to a broad range of work, including websites, applications, and system software, using a mix of persistence technologies. Strong communication and professionalism are considered essential, both with clients and within the team. The business particularly values applicants who have had some support-focused experience at some stage in their career.

The role is based in central Bournemouth, a location known for its fast-growing digital economy and coastal setting.

Key Duties

• Work across projects with back-end developers, designers, and other specialists in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Write tidy, efficient, and testable code using current web technologies.
• Create applications that work well on mobile devices.
• Review web applications and improve them for search visibility and accessibility.
• Partner with designers, developers, and product owners to deliver interactive, scalable digital products.
• Inspect existing code, refactor where needed, and help maintain code quality.
• Develop and support frontend tooling such as Webpack and Gulp.
• Investigate bugs, resolve issues, and support upgrades to existing systems.
• Follow company policies, standards, and best practices for development, documentation, maintenance, and delivery approaches.
• Stay up to date with newer technologies and be willing to learn new languages and tools.
• Take responsibility for your own work and manage tasks independently.
• Communicate with internal colleagues to clarify requirements and join quoting meetings when needed.

Experience and Skills Needed

• At least 2 years of experience working as a front-end developer.
• Strong understanding of browser debugging and troubleshooting methods.
• At least 2 years of experience with markup languages.
• At least 2 years of experience using JavaScript (ES6) and CSS, including SASS or similar.
• At least 2 years of experience with modern front-end frameworks, preferably VueJS, or alternatively React or Angular.
• At least 2 years of experience with front-end component libraries such as Bootstrap or Tailwind.
• Practical knowledge of clean code, secure development practices, design patterns, code smells, and refactoring.
• Comfort using authoring tools such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
• Experience using Git for version control.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills.
• Good troubleshooting ability and a resourceful approach to problem solving.
• Commercial experience working with RESTful APIs.

Benefits

• Salary aligned to experience.
• Clear long-term progression opportunities.
• 28 days of holiday, including bank holidays.
• An extra day of leave for each year of service.
• One additional day off for your birthday.
• Annual bonus linked to company profit.
• Regular team social events.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Health plan.
• Tech scheme.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Early finish on Fridays.
• Free Friday breakfast.
• Pension scheme.
• Ongoing personal development support.
• Relaxed office atmosphere.

Qualifications

• A BA in Computer Science or a closely related field is preferred.
• Alternatively, 2+ years of IT work experience may be accepted.
• Applicants must be based in the UK.

Application Notes

This is a full-time position. Applicants are asked to provide a resume and may also be prompted for contact details, education history, employer information, and links to examples of their work such as a Git profile, portfolio, or blog.

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