Position Title: Front-End Developer
Role & Responsibilities:
We’re looking for a motivated Front-End Developer to help us with our digital production workstream. Key responsibilities will include:
- Working with creatives and project managers to scope out technical requirements and hours for display ads and email templates
- Building animated HTML5 display ads and email templates for our clients
- Supporting the team with testing and QA to ensure work is bug free
- Support with maintaining and optimising our client’s WordPress websites
Technical skills:
General Skills
- Strong experience HTML and CSS
- Decent experience with JavaScript
- Decent experience of Photoshop and Illustrator for simple edits and asset extraction
Email Templates
- Knowledge of email template development and best practice
- Experience building responsive email templates
- Experience building modular, editable email templates using a variety of email clients such as Mailchimp, Salesforce, Pardot, Klaviyo, HubSpot etc.
- Experience with Email on Acid, Litmus or other similar email testing tools
HTML5 Display Ads
- Experience building HTML5 Display Banners
- Good knowledge of Google Web Designer
- After Effects experience is nice to have but not a requirement
- Decent experience with Photoshop & Illustrator for extracting assets
- Good knowledge of required HTML5 banner specs, such as dimensions, file size limits and image format restrictions
Web Development
- Good knowledge of WordPress and experience building custom themes from scratch
- Strong knowledge of Advanced Custom Fields for building modular and editable themes
- Passable PHP knowledge, enough to create themes and basic customisation
- Some QA experience is nice to have, able to draw up test cases and scenarios to ensure work meets required specifications, functionality and design
- Knowledge of cross-browser and device testing tools such as Browser Stack or similar
- Knowledge of SEO best practices in the context of web page development - such as Heading tags, redirects, alt tags, canonicals
Soft Skills:
- Strong communication skills
- Good teamwork and collaboration
- Excellent time management
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Quick learner and willing to learn on the job as new challenges arise
- Able to cope under pressure and time limitations
- Sticks to deadlines and delivers high-quality work
- Strong eye for design - works hard to ensure all development work meets the design as close as possible and pays particular attention to font sizes, spacing, detail.
Who are we?
About Iris
We’re Iris. We’re For the Forward. A creative, strategy and innovation company that uses the power of participation to excite progress for businesses. As part of the IT team, we’re inviting you to participate in progress – moving yourself and the world forward with every decision you make.
The Iris Character
We have five core behaviours that we look for to help us to build a culture that fosters true progress: Courage, Storytelling, Collaboration, Empathy and Commitment.
What's in it for you?
- Be a part of vibrant and highly motivated team
- Career development and opportunities
- Regular team socials
- Travel insurance for work trips
- Training and seminars (foreign languages, Excel courses are also included)
- A competitive market compensation and private Healthcare & Dental
- Awesome office space in Skopje within walking distance to shops, bars, restaurants and more
- Flexibility regarding work from home
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
‘FOR THE FREE’ is our global DE&I strategy. Its aim is to create a business where everyone feels free to be themselves and has the same opportunity and access to progress. Our DE&I strategy encourages courageous thinkers who champion outsider perspectives. ‘FOR THE FREE’ has three main pillars of activity:
Diversity - We want to invite difference. To be an organisation that is fully representative of different groups and reflects the city, country and world that we live in. We value our talents’ lived experiences – including gender, race, class, disability, neuro-diversity and sexual orientation.
Equity - We want to be fair to everyone. To remove barriers for individuals and groups and provide the bespoke access, support and opportunities that are needed to fully participate in our organisation. We are levelling the playing field.
Inclusion - We want everyone to feel at home. To provide a place where people can be themselves, express their unique identity and contribute to the life of our community
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large. We are For The Forward.
Please email CV in English using the Apply now option.
