Yellow Cherry is Hiring – Web Developer Job
We’re looking for a Front End Web Developer to join our small but mighty team in our central Inverness studios. Working with businesses across the Highlands and the UK, you’ll get the opportunity to work on a wide range of website design and development projects, provide ongoing technical support and deliver ongoing Search Engine Optimisation.
Your salary will depend on your experience and if there is any training required to fill any skills gaps, so we welcome applications at all levels. We are however a Real Living Wage accredited employer.
Whether you are looking for a change of scenery, fed up of freelancing, or are fresh out of education and keen as mustard to start your career in Website Development under mentorship, we would like to hear from you!
Web Developer Responsibilities
- Writing efficient code using best practice for software development
- Creating websites using different languages such as HTML and CSS
- Creating a website that matches the visual design brief and technical specification set out by the client
- Communicating with project managers to gather and refine requirements and specifications
- Working within agreed-upon timelines
- Researching a variety of software programs
- Creating and maintaining the documentation for software
- Delivering CMS training
- Provide telephone technical support to clients
- Efficiently using a technical support ticketing system
- Improving and enhancing websites after they have been created
- Developing contingency plans in the event of websites going down
- Best practice Search Engine Optimisation
- Accessibility testing
- Mobile Device Compatibility testing
Desirable But Not Essential
- Domain management
- Server management
- Best practice Search Engine Optimisation
- Accessibility testing
- Mobile Device Compatibility testing
Personal Qualities
- Must be willing to share ideas and learn from others
- Functional knowledge and coding experience
- The ability to multitask within the budgets and time constraints set by the company
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- An understanding of development approaches and methods
- Knowledge of mobile applications, computer operating systems and web browsers
- Strong analytical skills
- A proactive self-starter who can own and drive activity
- Strong interpersonal skills, empathy and emotional intelligence
- A positive, proactive, can–do attitude to their work and a determination to succeed for the client, the company and themselves
- Prepared to occasionally travel and work unsociable hours to ensure projects are successfully completed
Why would you want to work at Yellow Cherry?
Established in 2009, Yellow Cherry is a busy, innovative and vibrant full-service creative agency based in Inverness, servicing nearly 600 clients.
With our studios situated in the City Centre on the banks of the River Ness, it is the perfect workplace for a lunch time stroll, running errands on your break or meeting a friend for dinner before catching a show at Eden Court. There are transport links in the form of a regular bus service and train station within a 2 minute walk and a range of parking options available.
We consider ourselves more than colleagues, more than a team, more like a family. Applicants would do well to bring a can-do attitude and a sense of humour as no family member should take themselves too seriously.
You will find yourself in a workplace that encourages you to be an individual, provides opportunities to develop your skills, nurture your natural creativity and explore your curiosity.
We pride ourselves on how much we truly care about what we deliver.
If you’re the ideal candidate, you would naturally commit to giving all our clients and your colleagues the very best of your ability. Likewise, as a team we commit to support and encourage you on a daily basis.
Applicants will need to be able to commute to the Inverness Studios for at least 50% of their working week to get fully immersed in Yellow Cherry culture. We will consider part time and hybrid working if required, please include your preference in your covering letter.
Other benefits of becoming a ‘Cherry’ include:
- Great transport links
- Flexible hours
- Remote working opportunities
- 34 days holiday a year pro rata
- Upskilling and progression opportunities
- Personal development days
- Real Living Wage employer
- Cycle to work scheme
- Annual profit-share bonus
- Employee Health and Wellbeing Management Portal
- Employee 24hr confidential telephone counselling service
Read up on us and our journey so far, then if you feel that Yellow Cherry might be the place for you, please email your CV to studio@yellowcherry.uk and we will send you a link to our online application form.
Closing date 5pm Friday 17th March 2023.