Front End Developer
Camelot Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
Millions of people enjoy playing our games each and every week, with even more doing so online via web or app since the outbreak of Covid19. With this in mind, our games need to be easily accessible to players of all ages and backgrounds. That's where you come in!
We need someone like you with fantastic skills across HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript coding, ideally in a high transaction eCommerce environment. Your focus will not only be on beautiful code, but also on ensuring the highest possible levels of accessibility for players on a variety of devices. You will work closely with colleagues across the Digital channel and the wider business to make sure that our players enjoy an experience on our app or site that is enjoyable, easy to use and that they want to come back and use again.
A Place To Be You
We want to create games that appeal to people from all walks of life and we need a rich and diverse blend of people to make that happen. We hire exclusively on talent and we want our employees to feel like they can bring their whole self to work every day.
We have continued recruiting throughout COVID-19 and have been successfully conducting interviews and onboarding new starters virtually since March. This has meant that we have been able to keep our people as safe as possible.
How you'll make a difference
You will be responsible for the delivery of complex solutions across the Camelot digital landscape. This includes project work for The National Lottery website, mobile App and bespoke applications internally. You will focus on development and deliver highly technical solutions across a broad range of products and services within the business. Your core focus will be on javascript development and you will be required to lead areas of this capability within the team. These capabilities may include areas of BAU or project work, web personalisation, onsite promotions, AB /MVT testing or the development of automated testing solutions.What you'll bring to the table
- Deliver class leading front-end code across web and app channels.
- Develop technical solutions using JavaScript and associated JS frameworks.
- Work with 3rd party APIs to deliver enhanced functionality and website capability.
- Work with development teams to ensure solutions are technically feasible.
- Work with strict coding guidelines to ensure standards are maintained.
- Lead the use of TDD/BDD practices where appropriate and contribute to overall software development and test strategies for the team.
- Ensure that all code is robust and has undertaken the correct level of QA and testing.
- Work with internal test teams to ensure that our solutions are fully tested.
- Experience developing enterprise scale websites and mobile specific web channels.
- Experience developing for native mobile app or hybrid app products.
- Experience of automated integration systems and non-functional testing.
- Experience developing and deploying enterprise level optimisation solutions.
- Advanced level HTML5, CSS3 and preprocessing SCSS / SASS.
- Advanced level of JavaScript coding and and related frameworks (eg. JQuery)
- Advanced level of Object Oriented development and code Design Patterns.
- Knowledge of prototypical inheritance, scope, and closures.
- Advanced level of data manipulation with XML / JSON.
- Expert knowledge and experience using AJAX
- Expert knowledge and experience using and integrating 3rd party APIs
- Expert knowledge of REST APIs and integration.
- Strong knowledge of Accessibility standards and how to develop for them.
What we’ll give you
We look after our people. There’s a competitive bonus and benefits scheme, 26 days of annual leave and a rather generous pension scheme. Thinking about your health? No probs - we’ll give you full private medical cover, access to dental schemes, eye care rebates, your annual flu shot, 50% off your annual gym membership, we’ll even give you access to remote health and wellbeing support - including access to a free digital GP and virtual counselling. We’ll give you all of the kit and tools needed to succeed.
We take your development very seriously. We encourage you to treat every day as a learning day, we offer a series of AMAZING Learning Weeks throughout the year and you’ll have access to the Camelot Playbook from day one - a guide to help you be your best.
Why work at Camelot?
Camelot is the home of The National Lottery. We currently turnover in excess of 7 billion per year through our retail and digital channels and we do this with a workforce of just over 1,000 people - this means that every one of us has a part to play and make a difference.