Junior Web Developer

Our client in the Insurance Sector, based in Cape Town is currently looking to employ an experienced Junior Web Developer.

An awesome career opportunity awaits.

Requirements:

• Specify degree/diploma in Web Development or Software Development.
• 1 -2 years Web Development Experience.
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3.
• Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS.
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS would be an advantage.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git /SVN/TFS etc..
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
• Good understanding of working in an Agile environment.
• Basic HTML.
• WordPress CMS knowledge.
• Google Analytics knowledge.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application.
• You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.
• Manage documents and version control on a content server.
• Update/map documents to various sites.
• Code basic HTML to map documents to websites.
• Content updates and management.
• Gathering Google Analytics on various websites and determine optimization opportunities.
• Proactive content updates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct analysis, and prioritize requests.
• Develop new user-facing features.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Contribute to user acceptance testing (UAT) and the development of training material.
• Once the solution has been successfully tested, transport the solution into production/live environment.
• Develop and maintain websites with CMS.
• Monitor performance of solutions and make recommendations to improve the performance and functionality of the solution.
• Log issues found in existing systems as internal change controls and ensure successful resolution of issues.

Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying please consider your application unsuccessful.