JavaScript Job: Junior Front End Developer

Full-time, permanent opportunity

About us

Newmarket Holidays is one of the UK's largest independent specialist tour operators. An award-winning travel specialist, every year, we create and operate holidays for tens of thousands of customers travelling to destinations within the UK, across Europe and around the world. We are in the business of creating amazing holiday experiences. The type of holidays that people have always dreamt of doing. We bring those dreams to life through stories and are the trusted friends of our loyal customers.

We know our success is driven by our exceptional people. This year we celebrate our 40th anniversary, so it’s an exciting time to join such an established travel business and brand and, importantly, get to work with a great bunch of colleagues!

The opportunity

We’re looking for a Junior Front-End Developer to join us. This is a fab’ opportunity for a developer looking to grow their experience in a small, yet growing, team. You’ll work closely with another established and talented Front-End Developer on designing and developing our site to ensure users have a great experience when visiting, taking into consideration different browsers, operating systems and devices.

You’ll be responsible for building and enhancing new features and applications to create high performance, functional (yet beautiful) web solutions working with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, GIT and other current front end technologies. You’ll build an engaging, interactive user experience on the web by designing and implementing responsive UIs, develop web applications and implement their automated testing.

What you’ll be doing:

• Write clean, solid and scalable code
• Use requirements and prototypes to develop new features and enhance/test updates to the existing code
• Jointly responsible for all front-end implementation
• Distil requirements into good UX and UI designs
• Ensure front-end implementation meets the application needs and incorporates the ‘customer first’ approach
• Help implement and build prototypes for testing with standard methodologies in mind using prototype tools
• Review designs and suggest alternatives to the user flow or experience to reduce complexity of the build
• Support the introduction/extension of UI technology to ensure that the team remain on the cutting edge of the industry

About you

You’ll have previous experience in a similar role embracing web and app development, and have the ability to visualise and contribute to amazing designs and UX. You’ll be ready to put your knowledge into action of web development tools and programming languages, including HTML5, CSS3 and some JavaScript / jQuery. Having worked alongside and in development teams, you’ll have understanding of responsive design and build, and modern UI development technologies principles. You’ll have experience with Photoshop and Illustrator, and of creating design wireframe and knowledge of CSS pre-processors (SASS, LESS), Bootstrap and other responsive HTML frameworks, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Razor and Distributed Revision Control / Source Code Management (E.g. GIT). Ideally you’ll be familiar with Agile methodology and interactive design (SCRUM, KANBAN), continuous delivery, CSS frameworks (BEM, SMACSS, OOCSS), front-end frameworks such as Angular, React, Knockout. You’ll be inquisitive and eager to keep up to date with tools and techniques used to create the front end of a website, and be aware of how the field is developing.

Join us!

The team is a great mix of people. Some have been there from the start in 1983, others have joined only recently. It’s that mix that makes our team so successful - we love new ideas and change at the same time as we value experience. We want our team members to try new things and to excel, so there are opportunities to try different teams and tasks. And we have a keen interest in keeping communication open and honest. We challenge each other, and that makes us better at what we do. We celebrate success, reward fantastic performance, and have a strong focus on personal development with learning opportunities for all. We will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to be part of the exciting return to travel within a hugely passionate, dedicated team with a proven track record of success.

The post comes with a competitive salary and benefits package including:

• 25 days paid holiday per year, plus bank/public holidays
• Additional holiday when travelling on a Newmarket Holidays tour
• Holiday exchange scheme
• Discounted holidays
• Friends and family discount on holidays
• Supplier/partner discounts/offers
• Workplace pension scheme
• Cycle2Work scheme
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Discounted local gym membership
• Shopping discounts
• Open-plan South London/Surrey office with a really friendly team and regular socials
• Flexible working arrangements with a hybrid model of office (min. 2 days per week) and working from home

Sound like the kind of opportunity and place to work that you’re looking for? Please send your CV with a brief covering note about your salary expectations and notice period to our Recruitment team [email protected]

No agencies, please.