JUNIOR UX/UI DESIGNER / FRONT END DEVELOPER (UK)

Music Gateway is a market leading, SaaS product for the music and creative industries. The platform educates the independent music market in standard business practices whilst offering a wide range of tools & opportunities to help individuals and companies succeed including major clients including Universal, BMG, Redbull and more.

We are looking to expand our technical team with an enthusiastic Junior UX/UI Developer who has a passion for combining the art of design with the art of programming. A passion for front-end development is a must along with the desire to achieve good design, usability, accessibility, performance, and mobile/responsive web pages.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create world-class products and experiences that make people's lives simply better
• Increase the number of users regularly interacting with the products through ease of use
• Development of new user-facing features and improvement of existing features
• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual and responsive UI components
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Cooperation with the back-end developers

The ideal candidate should demonstrate a good understanding of working in an office environment with the ability to be self-motivated, self-managed and highly organised. The role will also give the successful candidate the opportunity to make a huge impact on the UI & UX design for a leading music industry SAAS product as well as cross train using in-demand technologies like Laravel and Vue.

Personal Attributes:

• Great communicator
• Passionate about their work and self-development
• Appreciative of the value of time and uses it effectively

Design Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong eye for design and finishing touches
• Attention to detail
• Strong understanding of User Experience best practices

Programming Skills and Knowledge:

• HTML
• CSS (SASS, SCSS & LESS)
• Responsive CSS frameworks (Semantic UI, Bulma or Bootstrap)
• Javascript, Jquery
• Demonstrable web development skills with a strong portfolio
• Smarty PHP / Blade or other templating
• GIT

Advantageous traits and knowledge:

• Understanding of sales funnels / commercial awareness
• Knockout JS (we’re migrating away from this)
• Vue / React (we’re migrating to Vue)
• OOP PHP MVC
• Laravel (we’re migrating to Laravel)
• SAAS experience
• E-commerce experience
• Any other programming/design experience
• Hobby projects/side hustles
• Interest in the music industry

To apply: Please send us your CV and further details about yourself to jobs@musicgateway.com