{"jobs":[{"id":10239,"problem":"learning how to build great websites","company_name":"Lattimore and Friends","role_name":"Junior Web Developer","description":"

Hello, this is Ben Lattimore from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for a Junior Web Developer to join us!

So, who are you?

You’ll be friendly, with a keen eye for design and some experience of web development. We definitely aren’t looking for computer science graduates - we’re looking for a genuine junior who brings a solid base level of knowledge and the enthusiasm to learn.

Indeed, you don’t even need to have a degree at all. Perhaps you smashed through all the courses on Codecademy or Treehouse, perhaps you did one of those 8/10/12/15 week crash courses, perhaps you did it the old school way with books from the library. However you got here, we want to take you further. It should also be said here that we’d be so stoked to give more women and/or those from other backgrounds their first step into tech.

So, who are we?

We work with some of the UK and USA’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress, Shopify and Headless experiences.

We’re growing rapidly and we are on the lookout for new Junior Web Developers to join our team.

You will work closely with Ben Lattimore, our founder and experienced WordPress developer, as well as our other junior web developer - and you can draw on the experience of the other 7 or so web developers we work with on a daily basis.

So, what will you do?

Initially, we won’t lie, the work won’t be all too glamorous - but it will supercharge your learning.

You will start by implementing fixes and tweaks across our many, many website projects. This could range from fixing some errant CSS, adding GA tags, setting-up plug-ins, etc, etc.

As your learning and confidence grows, you will take on more responsibility for projects such as developing new sections to websites and hopefully rapidly moving to building a full WordPress/Shopify website yourself.

But don’t stress - you will be pushed but never entirely beyond your ability.

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1.) A base coding ability

You will need to bring comfortability with HTML, CSS and jQuery
Hopefully you have some experience doing basic WordPress tasks, such as making theme changes (perhaps you have even tried to build a bespoke theme)
You will need a wide portfolio of projects to show us - these can definitely be personal projects (we understand it can be hard to win client work early in your career)

2.) An eye for design

The biggest complaint agencies have is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how we work hard to work with designers - and offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3.) Be a people person

Developers have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build strong relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. It’s so much easier to train a chatty, friendly person how to code than to try and make an ornery developer into a pleasure to be around.

So, what do you get?

A starting salary of £25,000 annual salary
Full flexible working - we are a fully remote company (technically based in London) but we are exploring getting a full office again (for those of us in/near London)

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to any learning tool you prefer
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning. This could be a bespoke blog for a friend (or yourself!), to a simple web app to anything and everything in between. Make sure to bring some of these ideas to the interview.

So, what do you need to do now?

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person.

In you application, do send over:

A brief description of how you got into coding and what tools you have used to learn thus far
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why
Examples of your web work thus far
CV
Cover letter

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Hello, this is Ben from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for a Project Assistant to join us!

So, who are you?

You’ll be a friendly, team focused individual with a keen eye for design and a passion for web and technology. We definitely aren’t looking for computer science graduates - this is an entry-level role and we’re looking for someione who brings a base level of knowledge, team skills and enthusiasm to kickstart a career in tech.

Indeed, you don’t even need to have a degree at all! Perhaps you smashed through all the courses on Codecademy or Treehouse, perhaps you did one of those 8/10/12/15 week crash courses, perhaps you did it the old school way with books from the library. However you got here, we want to take you further. It should also be said here that we’d be so stoked to give more women and/or those from other backgrounds their first step into tech.

So, who are we?

We work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

We’re growing nicely and now need a Project Assistant to work closely with our two Project Managers and help us continue deliver amazing website projects.

So, what will you do?

From day one we will expect you to assist our Project Managers in managing our various projects, which means keeping the devs on track for an on-time delivery, and making sure we do so with a high quality of work. You will make sure all aspects of the design are broken down and assigned to our amazing devs, so we can get the work done fast and efficiently.

You will assign tasks to our devs using our project management tools, provide all the materials our devs need to work, set up the work environments, and at times will also need to hire and work closely with remote developers as needed.

Once you are ready, you will be the main contact working closely with the client product-owners, and thus an important face for the company. This will be a challenge for you but you will not be expected to jump into this deep-end until you feel confident. This role really is a ‘glue that binds us’ kind of role, as you will almost always be at the centre of everything!

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1.) Be a people person

Techies have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build strong relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. As you’ll be managing dev teams, you should feel comfortable being a leader, but open and understanding to different styles of communication.
You will be working at times with our clients so you should have a confident and capable customer service work ethic. You should be a fun, engaging and friendly presence (who impresses with your hard-work and diligence too) whenever you are meeting with a client. We want our clients to smile when you hit their inbox with another question, and want to set up more meetings with you.

2.) An eye for design

The biggest complaint we hear from our clients is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how well we collaborate with our client’s designers. We expect you to keep these standards high as well as offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You will be responsible for translating the wants and dreams of our clients into work for our devs, so you not only should have an eye for design, but be comfortable asking questions and getting all the information that you need.
Your communication skills will be essential, and you will need patience in sometimes rewriting tasks a few times until we can get the work perfect.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3.) Some interest in coding and web development

Bring any HTML, CSS, JavaScript knowledge you might have
If you have tinkered with some WordPress before, that’s great
If you don’t have much coding or WordPress experience under your belt, but are eager to learn - that’s fine too!

So, what do you get?

The London Living Wage (£10.75 p/h), working out to £22,500 annual
A MacBook Pro
A great place to work in our office in Whitechapel

Opportunities to earn development and project management qualificatins

So, what do you need to do now?

A proposed start date is Monday 23rd March but do let us know if another date would work best.

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person, but we will aim to have a lot in the first weeks of March.

In you application, do send over:

Cover letter, which should mention some examples of successful teamwork, or proven customer service capabilities
CV
A brief description of why are you interested in tech and web development
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why

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Hello, this is Ben Lattimore from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for first mid-level/experienced WordPress developer to join our team.

I was a freelance WordPress developer for 5 years and have been in charge of technical delivery and training our junior web developers whilst also trying to manage a growing web development agency.

For the sake of my sanity, our clients and our amazing junior web development team, we now need a dedicated WordPress expert to take on all aspects of technical delivery.

So, who are you?

You’ll be friendly, with a keen eye for design and 3+ years of WordPress development experience.

You’ll be confident to smash out standard WordPress themes and have experienced with hooks and actions. You will have explored Gutenberg a bit and know how to set-up blocks with ACF.

You’ll be able to use your knowledge and experience to train and develop our team of 3 junior developers - this is a role where you will code less and train more.

You won’t necessarily have a deep computer science background - we’re a team of “second jobbers” who tried something else first (at time of printing we have a former graphic designer, pawn broker, songwriter and pharmacist).

You will believe in on-going learning and have a vision for the next stage in your career - whether that is learning other languages or moving into management (or something else entirely). Internally we are super excited about Gutenberg and the use of WP API and front-end frameworks like React.

So, who are we?

We primarily work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

That said, we are starting to win our first direct-to-client projects and looking ahead to 2020 we’re excited to go after and win even more work like this.

We focus our junior web developer roles on women and people of colour - we can offer a unique first step into tech and want to use that to make a difference. And it seems to be working - our first junior web developer has just been snapped up by another agency.

So, what will you do?

There are three parts to this role - the coding, the training and process-building:

1.) Code yourself

You will bring your WordPress development experience to bear to crack thorny problems - and offer advice on additional functionality we can offer our clients.

As we have grown our work has changed too - we still have loads of simple bespoke WordPress builds but more involve some kind of API integration, Gutenberg set-up, advanced Shopify integration and more.

2.) Training Others

We have a team of talented and motivated junior web developers - by the time you arrive they will have a solid grounding in HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery, as well as being able to tackle simple bespoke WordPress builds.

We need you to take on their ongoing development, supported by the resources of the agency and the agency founder. We will happily fund training courses, off- and on-site training opportunities and anything else required.

Day-to-day you will be the first port of call for the junior team when they hit problems they can’t immediately solve via StackOverflow (don’t worry, they are a very proactive bunch and won’t bother you needlessly). You will also help them in architecting their solutions, encouraging them to think through problems instead of just jumping in.

3.) Building and leading our delivery process

Our processes are patchy at best but you will join an agency that does value process. You will have plenty of scope and support (financially and managerially) to institute modern technical processes.

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1.) Your coding ability

Deep experience in bespoke WordPress development including developing bespoke themes, utilising hooks and actions as well as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Experience with Gutenberg, even if only via ACF blocks
An awareness of other languages and the opportunities and challenges with these
An ability to break down and teach your knowledge and experience, primarily to our junior web development team and also to explain issues to our project managers

2.) An eye for design

The biggest complaint agencies have is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how we work hard to work with designers - and offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3.) Be a people person

Developers have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build strong relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. It’s so much easier to train a chatty, friendly person how to code than to try and make an ornery developer into a pleasure to be around.

So, what do you get?

Competitive salary
A MacBook Pro
A great place to work in our own (shabby chic) studio, in between Whitechapel and Shadwell

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to Treehouse, the brilliant learning platform, or any other service requested
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning.

So, what do you need to do now?

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person.

In you application, do send over:

An example of a website with great design, and explain why
Any examples of projects you can share
CV
Cover letter

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Hello, this is Ben Lattimore from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for a Junior Web Developer to join us!

So, who are you?

You’ll be friendly, with a keen eye for design and some initial coding ability. We definitely aren’t looking for computer science graduates - we’re looking for a genuine junior who brings a base level of knowledge and the enthusiasm to learn.

So, who are we?

We work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

We have a unique way of working that allows us to delivery great value and at the same time, maintain amazing quality.

We’re growing rapidly and need our another full-time developer to help us out.

So, what will you do?

Well, we always finish and refine our projects here in London and it is at this point you can spread your coding wings. You’ll be making final changes to the front-end, creating bespoke WordPress builds, doing various WordPress fixes and improvements and generally tackling myriad problems via code. You will have gone through our in-house WordPress training course before doing this, don’t worry!

Once you are ready, you will also go in-house with our clients to deliver the most critical phase - the in-house refining and finishing, working closely with the original designers. This will be a challenge for you but you will not be expected to jump into this deep-end until you feel confident.

So, what do you get?

The London Living Wage (£10.55 p/h), working out to £22,000 annual salary
A MacBook Pro
A great place to work in our studio, in between Whitechapel and Shadwell

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to Treehouse, the brilliant learning platform
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning. This could be a bespoke blog for a friend (or yourself!), to a simple web app to anything and everything in between. Make sure to bring some of these ideas to the interview.

So, what do you need to do now?

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person.

In you application, do send over:

A brief description of how you got into coding and what tools you have used to learn thus far
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why
Any examples of your web work thus far
CV
Cover letter

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Hello, this is Caitlin Gulliford from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for a Junior Project Manager to join us!

So, who are you?

You’ll be a friendly, team focused leader with a keen eye for design and some initial coding ability. We definitely aren’t looking for computer science graduates - we’re looking for a genuine junior who brings a base level of knowledge, team skills and enthusiasm to kickstart a career in tech.

So, who are we?

We work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

We have a unique way of working that allows us to deliver great value and at the same time, maintain amazing quality.

We’re growing rapidly and need our first full-time Junior Project Manager to help us out.

So, what will you do?

There are two parts to this role, which overlap and should keep you engaged and supercharge your learning:

Lead a dev team through all stages of delivery

From day one we will expect you to assist our Senior Tech Lead in managing our various projects, which means keeping the devs on track for an on-time delivery, and making sure we do so with a high quality of work. You will make sure all aspects of the design are broken down and assigned to our amazing devs, so we can get the work done fast and efficiently.

You will assign tasks to our devs using Asana, provide all the materials our devs need to work, set up the work environments, and at times will also need to hire and work closely with remote developers as needed.

Code yourself

The best project managers understand how our websites are built and how devs approach their work, so for us it will be essential that you are keen to do some basic coding. This might be making small edits or fixes as they come up, or pairing with our devs when we go in-house with our clients for 1-3 days at a time to deliver the most critical phase: the in-house refining and finishing of their ready-for-delivery website. (If you are ever required to do so, you will have gone through our in-house WordPress training course before doing this, don’t worry!)

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1.) Be a people person

Techies have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build strong relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. As you’ll be managing dev teams, you should feel comfortable being a leader, but open and understanding to different styles of communication.
You will be working with our clients right away, so should have a confident and capable customer service work ethic. You should be a fun, engaging and friendly presence (who impresses with your hard-work and diligence too) whenever you are meeting with a client. We want our clients to smile when you hit their inbox with another question, and want to set up more meetings with you.

2.) An eye for design

The biggest complaint we hear from our clients is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how we work hard to work with designers. We expect you to keep these standards high as well as offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You will be responsible for translating the wants and dreams of our clients into work for our devs, so you not only should have an eye for design, but be comfortable asking questions and getting all the information that you need.
Your communication skills will be essential, and you will need patience in sometimes rewriting tasks a few times until we can get the work perfect.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3.) Some coding ability or interest in coding

Bring any HTML, CSS and perhaps some basic jQuery with you.
If you know some SASS (or can learn this before you start), that’s even better.
If you have tinkered with some WordPress theme files in the past, that’s awesome but not at all required.
If you don’t have much coding under your belt, but are eager to learn - that’s fine too!

So, what do you get?

The London Living Wage (£10.55 p/h), working out to £22,000 annual
A MacBook Air
A great place to work in our office in Dalston, with its free coffee, tea, biscuits, beer and free events and activities like yoga.

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to your choice of learning platform e.g. Treehouse, Udemy, etc
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning. This could be a bespoke blog for a friend (or yourself!), to a simple web app to anything and everything in between. Make sure to bring some of these ideas to the interview.

So, what do you need to do now?

A proposed start date is Monday 15th April but do let us know if another date would work best.

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person, but we will aim to have a lot in the last few weeks of March and start of April, so try and keep those days free.

In you application, do send over:

Cover letter, which should mention some examples of successful teamwork, or proven customer service capabilities
CV
A brief description of how you got into tech and what tools or platforms you have used to learn thus far
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why
Any examples of your web work thus far

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Hello, this is Caitlin Gulliford from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for our first Junior Project Manager to join us!

So, who are you?

So, who are we?

We work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

We have a unique way of working that allows us to deliver great value and at the same time, maintain amazing quality.

We’re growing rapidly and need our first full-time Junior Project Manager to help us out.

So, what will you do?

There are two parts to this role, which overlap and should keep you engaged and supercharge your learning:

Lead a dev team through all stages of delivery

Code yourself

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1. Be a people person

Techies have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build strong relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. As you’ll be managing dev teams, you should feel comfortable being a leader, but open and understanding to different styles of communications.
You will be working with our clients right away, so should have a confident and capable customer service work ethic. You should be a fun, engaging and friendly presence (who impresses with your hard-work and diligence too) whenever you are meeting with a client. We want our clients to smile when you hit their inbox with another question, and want to set up more meetings with you.

2. An eye for design

The biggest complaint we hear from our clients is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how we work hard to work with designers. We expect you to keep these standards high as well as offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You will be responsible for translating the wants and dreams of our clients into work for our devs, so you not only should have an eye for design but be comfortable asking questions and getting all the information that you need.
Your communications skills will be essential, and you will need patience in sometimes rewriting tasks a few times until we can get the work perfect.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3. Some coding ability or interest in coding

Bring any HTML, CSS and perhaps some basic jQuery with you.
If you know some SASS (or can learn this before you start), that’s even better.
If you have tinkered with some WordPress theme files in the past, that’s awesome but not at all required.
If you don’t have much coding under your belt, but are eager to learn - that’s fine too!

So, what do you get?

The London Living Wage (£10.55 p/h), working out to £22,000 annual
A MacBook Air
A great place to work in our WeWork in Shoreditch, with its free coffee, tea, biscuits, beer and free events and activities like yoga.

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to your choice of learning platform e.g. Treehouse, Udemy, etc
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning. This could be a bespoke blog for a friend (or yourself!), to a simple web app to anything and everything in between. Make sure to bring some of these ideas to the interview.

So, what do you need to do now?

A proposed start date is Monday 21st January but do let us know if another date would work best.

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person, but we will aim to have a lot in the first weeks of January, so try and keep those days free.

In your application, do send over:

Cover letter, which should mention some examples of successful teamwork, or proven customer service capabilities
CV
A brief description of how you got into tech and what you have used to learn thus far
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why
Any examples of your web work thus far

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Hello, this is Ben Lattimore from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for our first junior web developer to join us!

So, who are you?

So, who are we?

We work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

We have a unique way of working that allows us to deliver great value and at the same time, maintain amazing quality.

We’re growing rapidly and need our first full-time developer to help us out.

So, what will you do?

There are two parts to this role, which overlap and should keep you engaged and supercharge your learning.

1.) Code yourself

We always finish and refine our projects here in London and it is at this point you can spread your coding wings. You’ll be making final changes to the front-end, doing various WordPress fixes and improvements and generally tackling myriad problems via code. You will have gone through our in-house WordPress training course before doing this, don’t worry!

In addition, you will be supported to deliver your own projects - all the way from development of the front-end templates (HTML, SASS/CSS, jQuery) to the WordPress back-end.

Once you are ready, you will also go in-house with our clients for 1-3 days at a time to deliver the most critical phase - the in-house refining and finishing, working closely with the original designers. This will be a challenge for you but you will not be expected to jump into this deep-end until you feel confident.

2.) Work with our Project Manager to ensure all our projects have quality code

From day one, you will work closely with our Project Manager (a trained Full Stack Developer) to help guide our team of great distributed developers as needed. When asked, you will help ensure the end results matches the designs, use your front-end skills to offer thoughts and improvements and ultimately to read and check the code coming back to us. This will be challenging but you’ll be given loads of support and we can assure you that, hard as it is, reading other people’s code is one of the best ways to learn development yourself.

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1.) Some coding ability

Bring your HTML, CSS and perhaps some basic jQuery with you
If you know some SASS (or can learn this before you start), that’s even better
If you have tinkered with some WordPress theme files in the past, that’s awesome but not at all required

2.) An eye for design

The biggest complaint we hear from our clients is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how we work hard to work with designers - and offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3.) Be a people person

Developers have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build strong relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. It’s so much easier to train a chatty, friendly person how to code than to try and make an ornery developer into a pleasure to be around.
After 6 months or so, you’ll be let loose upon our clients and spending time in their offices. You should be a fun, engaging and friendly presence (who impresses with your hard-work and diligence too) for the day or so you are there. You should be slightly missed when you’re not around.

So, what do you get?

The London Living Wage (£10.20 p/h), working out to £21,500 annual salary
A MacBook Air
A great place to work in our WeWork in Shoreditch, with its free coffee, tea, biscuits, beer and free events and activities like yoga.

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to your choice of learning platform e.g. Treehouse, Udemy, etc
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning. This could be a bespoke blog for a friend (or yourself!), to a simple web app to anything and everything in between. Make sure to bring some of these ideas to the interview.

So, what do you need to do now?

A proposed start date is Monday 14th January but do let us know if another date would work best.

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person, but we will aim to have a lot in the first week of January, so try and keep those days free.

In your application, do send over:

A brief description of how you got into coding and what you have used to learn thus far
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why
Any examples of your web work thus far
CV
Cover letter

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Hello, this is Ben Lattimore from Lattimore and Friends and we are looking for our first junior web developer to join us!

So, who are you?

So, who are we?

We work with some of London’s most exciting creative, branding and communications agencies, providing them with the best possible WordPress experience (amongst other languages).

We have a unique way of working that allows us to delivery great value and at the same time, maintain amazing quality.

We’re growing rapidly and need our first full-time developer to help us out.

So, what will you do?

There are two parts to this role, which overlap and should keep you engaged and supercharge your learning.

1.) Manage our distributed developers

You will be given responsibility on day one to manage our team of great distributed developers. You will need to ensure the end results matches the designs, use your front-end skills to offer thoughts and improvements and ultimately to read and check the code coming back to us. This will be challenging but you’ll be given loads of support and we can assure you that, hard as it is, reading other people’s code is one of the best ways to learn development yourself.

2.) Code yourself

So, what do you need?

We need three things from you:

1.) Some coding ability

Bring your HTML, CSS and perhaps some basic jQuery with you
If you know some SASS (or can learning this before you start), that’s even better
If you have tinkered with some WordPress theme files in the past, that’s awesome but not at all required

2.) An eye for design

The biggest complaint we hear from our clients is that websites, once developed, rarely look like the original design. This is a nuisance at best and a business-threatening problem at worst. We’re proud that our most common feedback is how accurate we are to designs and how we work hard to work with designers - and offer them thoughts on how to get the most from their designs.
You need to value and understand great design, even if you couldn’t design it yourself - taste is what we are after!

3.) Be a people person

Developers have a reputation for being anti-social and a bit unfriendly. We aim to build string relationships, even friendships, with our clients.
Do people call you charming? Funny, witty? Great to have around? If so, you’ll be a great fit. It’s so much easier to train a chatty, friendly person how to code than to try and make an ornery developer into a pleasure to be around.
After 6 months or so, you’ll be let loose upon our clients and spending time in their offices. You should be a fun, engaging and friendly presence (who impresses with your hard-work and diligence too) for the day or so you are there. You should be slightly missed when you’re not around.

So, what do you get?

The London Living Wage (£10.20 p/h), working out to £21,500 annual salary
A MacBook Air
A great place to work in our WeWork in Shoreditch, with its free coffee, tea, biscuits, beer and free events and activities like yoga.

As can be expected, personal development is hugely important to us - especially as the founder was a self-taught developer - so you will be given the following:

A paid subscription to your choice of learning platform e.g. Treehouse, Udemy, etc
The time and support to work on personal web development projects to help you maximise your learning. This could be a bespoke blog for a friend (or yourself!), to a simple web app to anything and everything in between. Make sure to bring some of these ideas to the interview.

So, what do you need to do now?

A proposed start date is Thursday 1st November (random date, but means we can get you settled in before the start of a full week) but do let us know if another date would work best.

We’ll be holding interviews on a rolling basis until we find the right person, but we will aim to have a lot on the 8th and 9th October, so try and keep those days free.

In you application, do send over:

A brief description of how you got into coding and what you have used to learn thus far
Send over an example of a website with great design, and explain why
Any examples of your web work thus far
CV
Cover letter

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