Frontend Developer - 11 mth FTC September start

Job Description

Job Title: Frontend Developer (Maternity cover/11 month FTC)

Reports to: Head of Digital Product

Location: Hybrid home/office

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £30,000 PA (fixed term contract) or day rate (to be discussed)

Sift is a market-leading digital B2B publishing and subscriptions business, based in the heart of Bristol. We believe that we can inspire action every day, through the creation of amazing content, experiences and insight for our audiences and clients.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Sift development team.

Working closely as part of the development team, you’ll be responsible for building modern and advanced features on the Spark platform (our Drupal 7 code base that delivers the five websites our development team work on and support).

We’re looking for someone to help support and develop our sites and products to deliver best-in-class digital experiences for our audiences. As well as helping to plan the strategy for replatforming of our sites in the future.

Ideally we would like someone available to start in September 2022.

What we’d like from you

• Broad experience of frontend development of Drupal websites
• Extensive knowledge of Drupal 7 theming and templating
• Good working knowledge of HTML, SASS, JavaScript including jQuery
• Good working knowledge of PHP
• Experience of working with version control systems like git
• Understanding of design systems and design pattern best practices to build scalable, maintainable and efficient applications
• Experience of building complex responsive and accessible sites
• Experience of cross-browser and device support
• Good analytical skills and great problem solver

Additional desirable qualities, skills and experience

• Understanding of Drupal 8 and/or 9 theming and templating

What we can offer you

We look for people who share and can demonstrate our five core values:

In return, we can offer you a great place to work with lots of opportunities to learn.

Our benefits include;

• Flexible working (we are Flexa certified)
• Pension contributions matched up to 5%
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell five days leave per year, long-service leave, plus a day off for your birthday!
• Christmas close down
• BUPA health cash plan and EAP
• Access to health and well-being resources and mental health consultants (up to 10 sessions per year)
• Perks at Work discount and reward site
• Summer and Christmas parties, plus team building events

Sift is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Hybrid working

Sift uses a hybrid flexible working model which consists of time split between working from the office and home.