UIO Developer - HTML | CSS | JavaScript

Our eCommerce Tech team at Head Office is looking for experienced front-end developers to join the team. This is an opportunity to help evolve a platform that serves over 8 million customers globally.

The Role:

Our eCommerce team is responsible for developing and managing the NEXT and Total Platform websites and mobile applications. These are built in-house and managed by our central support teams.

You will join the user interface optimisation team, focusing on the continual delivery of functionality. Our strategic roadmap prioritises, Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO), A/B testing, and analysis to improve the customer journey.

What You’ll Take On:

As a front-end developer, you will work in an agile team alongside other developers to build upon our quality-centric eCommerce platform.

• Experimental Feature Development: You’ll primarily be maintaining, developing, publishing and supporting experimental client-side functional features within our Bloomreach digital experience platform. Normally these are time-limited to see if we can achieve statistical significance and help the business decide if they want to invest time in permanently embedding the feature into the website.
• Technical Execution: There will be a heavy emphasis on intercepting and overriding existing features or injecting new features using CSS, HTML and JavaScript, whilst making sure the code is performant and does not impact the rest of the page, the user experience, or the efficiency of development teams.
• Continuous Improvement: As a passionate developer you’ll have a keen mindset to improve and you’ll enjoy working as part of a team. Comfortable with modern technologies and tooling, you’ll use best practices to improve the way we work.
• Collaboration and Support: You will help provide development support to internal users, as well as offering out-of-hours cover during seasonal events and busy trading periods. You’ll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes and working practices, actively enabling the department to become as efficient and effective as it can be.

What You’ll Bring:

Essential Criteria

• Strong experience of standard front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
• Experience in working effectively in a collaborative manner in a large scale, fast paced environment within a multifunctional technical team
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Exposure to modern Javascript frameworks and libraries such as React
• Awareness and practice of UI performance and accessibility best practices
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
• Experience in developing on a responsive site with multiple viewports
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude
• Understanding of the Agile methodologies and best practices

Desirable Criteria

• Experience working in an Agile team
• Experience with ADO
• Experience with the Bloomreach platform
• Experience with A/B testing
• An understanding of service-oriented architecture

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
• Company performance based bonus
• Sharesave scheme
• On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Free on-site parking
• Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
• Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change. 

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.