Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
What does a Web Developer do at Hogarth?
The Web Developer needs to build/modify responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. based on the visual briefs. You will need to work on localization of the page based on the assets provided which includes updating links, images and text, in accordance to the client’s coding standards.
You must be enthusiastic about technology and constantly be looking at the next innovation. On top of possessing strong oral, interpersonal and organizational abilities, you must be able to work in a fast paced environment. Flexibility and tolerance is a necessity. You will be rewarded with training and mentoring from the senior development team within an excellent team atmosphere.
This is a freelance position for upcoming short-term projects that will happen intermittently throughout the year. Each project is likely to last between 3-5 weeks and would require the team to work full days on-site at the client's office at One North. Due to the nature of this freelance arrangement we are not able to consider anyone who is currently in a full-time position unless they have plans to freelance full-time themselves.
Responsibilities
- Use the provided frameworks and automation tools to produce microsites for partner and reseller CMSs
- Test all work in situ in partner sites to ensure partners can take the whole code and put it in their CMS without further coding (except for adding their custom links)
- Prettify code and name assets clearly and consistently to make it easy for partners to use code. Consult the Partner ReadMe and the provided documentation. To ensure code and file naming follows accepted guidelines
- Validate code using offline tools
- Develop new digital assets as identified by supervisor and management
- Modify existing code to accommodate for a locale – including changing image paths, server-side includes (SSI), file names, directories, other elements, and other development tasks
- Ensure all your work is performed according to the brief and the minimum requirements for each client
- Develop fast and efficiently to meet tight deadlines
- Produce digital assets in several languages
- Update and amend existing assets
- Maintain client digital assets to the best of your ability using clean, accessible mark-up according to the latest web standards
- Help and advise project managers with client’s digital requests
- Keep an eye on the latest trends to help boost development efficiencies
- Awareness of the client’s mobile platform with the ability to build solutions that take advantage of the latest operating system features while remaining performant on the latest devices
Qualifications
- A minimum of 2 years web development experience
- Able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines
- Fluent in English, written and oral, due to the nature of the work
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organised
- Expertise in web languages and standard technologies, including version control systems (SVN and GIT), repositories and build tools (Gulp)
- Proficiency in HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3 and JavaScript/JQuery
- Responsive development experience
- Exposure to Front-End Frameworks (Foundation)
- Image manipulation software (Photoshop, InDesign) and able to slice elements out of a PSD
- Accessible and SEO based coding
- Self starter who is able to hand-code front-end NOT using any WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver and keen to learn new technologies
- Clear understanding of Usability
- Proficient in developing to W3C Standards
- Knowledge of the challenges of Email newsletter builds. Ability to work with MJML and in-house MJML automation tools
- Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
- Experience with optimization for mobile devices and familiarity with responsive and adaptive methods
- Excellent attention to detail
