Position:
JUNIOR UX/UI DESIGNER / FRONT END DEVELOPER
Employer: MUSIC GATEWAY
Location: REIGATE, UK
Category: WEB DEVELOPMENT
Salary: COMPETITIVE
Closing Date: OPEN
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