Front-End Developer

Here at Wickes, we take pride in being an open, welcoming place where everyone feels at home. Where you can be yourself, do your best work and make a positive difference every day.

We’re looking for a skilled Front-End Developer to join our dynamic Digital Experience team. You’ll play a crucial part in delivering engaging, high-quality, and innovative web experiences for our customers. If you’re passionate about developing user-centric solutions using the latest front-end technologies, this role is for you. 

What you’ll be doing

As a Front-End Developer, you will be responsible for implementing the user interface of our digital products, ensuring an exceptional user experience across all devices and platforms. You will collaborate closely with designers, back-end developers and product managers to translate design prototypes into fully functional, high-performance, responsive web applications.

This will include: 

• Develop and maintain front-end code for new and existing web applications using HTML5, CSS (including SASS), JavaScript, and jQuery.

• Implement modular, responsive, and cross-browser compatible code, following industry best practices and web standards.

• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure the feasibility of designs and deliver a seamless user experience.

• Use Handlebars to develop dynamic and reusable UI components.

• Integrate and work with various Content Management Systems (CMS), ensuring that the user interfaces are well-structured and easy to manage.

• Maintain version control using Git for code collaboration and workflow efficiency.

• Optimise web applications for performance, ensuring fast load times, high responsiveness, and scalability.

• Work with the development team on bug fixing, troubleshooting, and maintaining code quality.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including back-end developers and product owners, to understand project requirements and contribute to technical solutions.

• Stay updated on emerging technologies, frameworks, and best practices to drive continuous improvement in the front-end development space

About you

We’re looking for a proven Front-End Developer with a portfolio of web projects and strong communication and relationship building skills. You’ll have strong knowledge of responsive design principles and the ability to implement mobile-first designs. You’ll have experience in optimising web applications for performance, including asset optimisation and lazy loading and familiarity with SEO principles. You’ll be able to demonstrate a solid understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG) and how to implement them as well as cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.

Essential technical skills required: 

• HTML5 and modern CSS (including preprocessors like SASS)

• Flexbox for responsive layouts

• Strong JavaScript skills

• Experience with jQuery and Handlebars for dynamic page updates

• Proficient in Git for version control

• Proven experience working with Content Management Systems (CMS) to create and manage dynamic websites

What can we offer you?

You’ll be supported with fantastic learning and development and have the opportunity to grow and develop your career with us. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that includes:

Competitive company bonus

Save-as-you-earn scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Colleague discount

Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme

Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause and fertility support.

You’ll be based from our  Support Centre in Watford, where our Digital Marketing team are based, along with our other support functions.  We recognise the value of bringing our teams together to collaborate, support each other and build on our amazing culture.  We also encourage our teams to work flexibly, with a blend of remote / office working.

About Us

At Wickes, we’re proud of our unique culture. Each of us here is different, but we all share a way of being. Welcoming new people and ideas. Displaying both humility and an ambitious, can-do spirit. This is how everyone here enjoys an experience beyond the everyday.

Wickes is a multi-channel retailer operating in the home improvement market.  With 40 years in industry, Wickes now generates revenue in excess of £1.3Bn across 230 stores delivered by 8,000+ colleagues.