Front End Developer Opportunity
| Remuneration: | negotiable Basic salary |
| Benefits: | Medical, RA, loads of perks… |
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Job level: | Senior |
| Type: | Permanent |
Job description
- Interpreting graphic visual or interaction designs in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
- Creating visually appealing web pages or interfaces.
- Creating, editing or modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework.
- Programming interaction with JavaScript and/or a library such as jQuery
- Testing cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.
- Testing for compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the clients region or domain.
Domain specific knowledge or transferable skills
Experience with web development languages of HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery.
Framework
- Understanding of Bootstrap
- HTML
- Familiarity of HTML syntax for multiple specifications, including HTML 5.
- Knowledge of the semantic meaning of all HTML elements.
- Familiarity with the semantic markup for display of lists, tabular data, forms, articles, etc.
- Knowledge of markup used for layout such as dividers.
- Knowledge at the level to be able to hand-code markup.
- Including media and images.
- Knowledge of HTML structuring for SEO
CSS
- Specifying different CSS for various media, devices and displays.
- Best practices in CSS file organisation and structure.
- Methods for including CSS inline, internal and external via linked style sheets.
- How to define, combine and group CSS selectors for HTML elements, ID, classes, pseudo classes, child or sibling.
- Syntax of CSS declarations, properties and attributes.
- CSS box model and methods for CSS positioning, absolute and relative.
- Knowledge of properties and attributes to control the display.
- Familiarity with differences in CSS 2 and CSS 3.
- Proficient with a CSS Pre-processors such as Sass or LESS.
Best practices
JavaScript
- Methods to ensure browser and device compatibility
- Methods for degrading gracefully for older browsers and displays.
- Methods to ensure accessibility.
- File compression techniques for improving speed.
- Familiarity with UAT and QA best practice. (Testing)
- Knowledge of the operators, variables, datatypes, objects, properties and methods.
- Familiarity with control structures such as objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops and expressions.
- Forms and regular expression validation and submitting data.
- Knowledge of how to apply logical operators and conditional statements.
- Knowledge of the DOM HTML objects and their properties.
Event handling.
- Creating and controlling windows and dialogs.
- Processes for troubleshooting and debugging
- Familiarity with development and debugging tools for cross-browser issues.
Query
- Knowledge of how to employ the jQuery library for visual effects, event handling, and document manipulation.
Personality traits
- Attention to detail
- Work well within a team
- Positive attitude
- Eager to learn
- Keep up with modern techniques and technologies
At Ogilvy & Mather, we celebrate diversity for the benefit of both our clients and employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate because of race, colour, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
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