Web Developer

About Us

Nominated ‘Best Tech Place to Work’, Forrit is a digital technology company founded in 2014. The company has developed Forrit® - the next generation enterprise CMS.  Built in conjunction with Microsoft, Forrit® leverages the full potential of Azure's cloud services and tools on a single platform.  This simplifies and automates complex configuration processes and enables rapid and secure website creation, versioning and editing using an intuitive interface.  

We're continuing to grow throughout 2020 and, as a result, we need to expand our team. As a member of the Forrit, you are a part of a talented and diverse workplace, where we want you to be yourself. You are given the opportunity to make an impact and directly contribute to our success. Along with continuous learning, you will have the chance to be part of an innovative, inspiring and dynamic company at the heart of Edinburgh's booming tech sector. 

As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, this role would involve working remotely until the team eventually transition back to working from the Edinburgh office. 

Benefits

We offer an amazing workplace environment in the very centre of Edinburgh. We see our employees as our greatest asset and therefore we are investing in our people and ensuring that our team members are looked after both at work place and outside of work by providing benefits that support healthy work-life balance. Some of our benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (+bank holidays)
• Pension
• Private health care
• Income protection scheme
• Group life cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Parental leave and pay
• Flexible working 
• Learning and education opportunities
• Regular social activities

About the role:

As a Web Developer you would be working as an integral part of the Forrit development team and collaborating with other team members to ensure smooth delivery of various development projects.

Key Responsibilities and duties:

• Play a key role in delivery of various client projects using Forrit tools.
• To support on-boarding of new clients through development of PoCs, and migrations of websites to the Forrit® platform.
• Implement pixel-perfect UI designs created by graphic designers to a high standard of code that matches the requirements of underlying web frameworks.
• Ensure web pages are built to be fully inclusive for all end users.  Accessibility is a key requirement of our clients.
• Support the existing websites and applications with bug fixes when required.
• Contribute to regular planning and grooming sessions to ensure development tasks are described to a high quality.
• Contribute to the design of solutions to the client’s requirements.

 Skills and Qualifications:

• Proficient in front-end technologies including HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Strong experience in back-end technologies including c# and ASP.NET MVC
• Ability to build scalable, performant, testable and reusable code
• Experience with front-end web frameworks (Angular/React etc)
• Experience of working in an Agile team environment
• Excellent communication skills

Experience:

• Web Development: 2 years (Required)