Boats Group operates the world's largest boating marketplaces to include, but not limited to Yachtworld.com, boats.com and BoatTrader.com At Boats Group, our mission is to get the world on the water. As a UI / UX Front End Developer, you will work in a dynamic environment working with diverse, consumer facing project and product teams in the development of intuitive and elegant user interfaces. This role will support the development and implementation of the Front End experience. The successful candidate will apply their expertise to enhance and enrich the user experience and/or aesthetics of our company’s image and brand through their hands-on development and design work. This position will be cross functional and work with the Creative, Website, Technology and Product Teams.
What You'll Do
- Implement responsive web design to facilitate quality experiences across a wide range of browsers, tablets and mobile devices
- Develop creative concepts for native mobile apps, web portals, and customer websites based on company objectives while working with the creative team
- Combine the work of design and front end development building components and implementing code for each or each website experience
- Use best practices of UI / UX, identify areas of opportunity for optimization, create a plan, and implement actions
- Collaborate with product owners, product managers and developers to estimate scope and adjust priorities of backlogs
- Work alongside peer developers to maintain implementation consistency
- Leverage new trends in front-end development and incorporate amongst teams and current work streams
- Promote creative thinking and advocate design principles with best practices
- Understand and implement complex data sets along with further additions to the design asset libraries
- Collaborate and work with other members of the UI/UX team to design simple, clean, & elegant user interfaces
- Support the end-to-end user experience for multiple products/projects in a fast paced environment
What You Should Have
- Must provide a personal development portfolio or samples of professional work
- Minimum of 5 years of experience designing & developing rich user interfaces including mobile
- Must have proven experience designing for mobile web applications
- Experience coding HTML, Pseudo-Selectors, LESS, SASS, Media Queries, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Node
- Familiarity with Jira, GA, Google Optimize
- Understand pull requests and QA processes
- Experience in Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD, and Figma
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Self-motivated with excellent presentation and written/oral communication skills
- Possess an ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Be well organized and effectively manage time across multiple simultaneous production efforts.
Perks
You’ll be joining a close knit and talented team, with plenty of opportunity for professional growth. We offer competitive compensation + benefits that are on par with large companies, while also placing a high value on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
- Shiny new Apple MacBook + large second monitor + other office accessories
- Private medical insurance
- Contributory matched pension scheme
- 20 days Holiday plus 9 Bank holidays
- End of year holiday leave
- Birthday holiday (You never have to work on your birthday!)
- 32 hours of volunteer time paid per year (We are big into volunteering and helping out the community here at Boats Group!)
- Professional reimbursement program for employees to take courses, attend seminars, etc. (Things to enrich you as a professional)
- Employee assistance program
