Front End Developer
Job Description
- Develop functional and appealing web applications based on usability and build reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Be responsible for website maintenance and enhancements.
- Use a combination of mark-up languages, frameworks, libraries and tools to build web pages and web applications.
- Create cascading style sheets (CSS) that are consistent across all browsers and platforms.
- Be Responsible for staying up-to-date on emerging technologies and promoting best practices.
Job Requirement
- A proficient understanding of web mark-up including HTML5 and CSS3.
- A proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript libraries, i.e Lodash, Ramda, Date-Fns (or Moment).
- A basic understanding of CSS pre-processing solutions, such as LESS and SASS
- A good understanding of JavaScript frameworks and tools, i.e React, Angular (1- 4), Ember, Vue, etc.
- A good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and AJAX.
- An understanding and/or interest in ES6+ syntax additions to the JavaScript language.
- Interest and/or experience in Functional Programming techniques (especially concepts like Immutability, ADTs, Category Theory) is highly advantageous but not essential.
- Experience with build tools, i.e Gulp, Webpack, Rollup, Babel, etc.
- Basic ability with image editing. Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is advantageous.
- Experience with Content Management
- Systems.
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser
- compatibility issues and solutions.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning
- tools, primarily git, is advantageous.
- A good understanding of SEO principles.
Company Info
Bupa is part of a global family that re-invests its profits into areas that we believe will benefit our members, including businesses, health services and the community.
Taking equal parts technology and vision, our front-end developer is the ultimate catalyst in tuning our designs into functioning reality. A crucial role in our digital team, and with a number of large scale digital projects on the horizon, we are looking for an extraordinary Front end developer. If you know how to strike the delicate balance between design and function and aren’t afraid to push the envelope... This role might be the one for you.
Comfortable with ambiguity and being immersed in an environment where change is the norm, you will come with a mindset of endless possibility - a free and fast thinker who’s not afraid to move forward with unproven ideas.
Working closely with our cross-functional agile teams, you will be responsible for driving the high-quality delivery of visual and interactive elements for our online channels, with the ultimate aim of enhancing functionality and crafting new experiences to our 4 million Australian customers.
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