Junior/graduate Web Developer

**Junior/Graduate Web Developer**

**Location: Rushden**

**Salary: £25k - £30k + Pension + Flexible Hours + Excellent Benefits**

**The Client**:
The highly successful company have been in business for over 82 years as a specialist distributor of American manufactured electrical components. Over the years the business developed to service the needs of a much broader audience and through the carefulchoice of franchises have become a specialist distributor and manufacturer of electrical and mechanical industrial control components and equipment.

**The Role**:

- Due to ongoing growth, the company are looking for a Junior Web Developer to join this vital and expanding area of the business.
- In this role you will be responsible for maintaining, improving, and further developing the company e
- commerce websites, the development of which will help improve user experience and online conversions for efficiency gains and sales.
- You will work as part of a growing development team, cooperating closely with other departments within the company to achieve deliverables.
- Our client are looking for someone with 1+ years’ experience working with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS and C#, experience using Postgres and Redis is preferable.

**What your day-to-day activities will look like**:

- Development of HTML, CSS and JS across the group’s websites
- Improvements, updates and adding new features to websites
- Identifying issues and improvements
- SEO improvements, investigation and implementation
- Aid with the growth of the websites
- Identify issues and make suggestions for future improvements
- Working as part of a team to deliver projects and feature requests in a timely manner

**Skill Set**
- 1+ years - C#, JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Your core skills will be in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- You have a good knowledge of responsive web design
- High degree of accuracy applied to workload
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Adaptable to meet the business requirements
- Ability to challenge and propose alternatives

**Desirable skills**:

- Experience building websites using Bootstrap
- Experience using Git, preferably GitHub
- Exposure to back-end technologies (C#,.NET, JSON)
- SQL experience (using Postgres)
- Experience using Redis memory caches
- Experience using Solr search engine
- Experience using AWS hosting services
- Experience using organisational tools such as ClickUp
- Experience using APIs

**Location**:

- This is an on-site role. You will be expected to come to the company office during business hours.
- **Additional Resources are an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.**_