Junior Frontend Developer
Williams Commerce is a digital agency, established for 15 years and part of the Next15 Communications group, a UK PLC with a global footprint across 50 offices in 15 countries. We help brands grow by redefining and accelerating the digital customer experience, creating rapid value and enabling future digital business.
Role overview
We are looking for a Junior Frontend Developer to join our growing digital team. Reporting to our Frontend Lead / Development Manager, you will work with designers, backend developers, and project managers to build and maintain high-quality, user-friendly websites.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and gain valuable experience in a supportive, fast-paced environment; perfect if you are at an early stage in your career.
Our hybrid working model is 4 days per week working from our Leicester office and 1 day remote within the UK.
As a Junior Frontend Developer at Williams Commerce, you will:
Develop responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces using a wide variety of frontend technologies.
Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into functional web components.
Maintain and improve existing codebases and contribute to new projects.
Participate in code reviews and follow established coding standards and best practices.
Debug and resolve frontend issues across browsers and devices.
Stay up-to-date with emerging frontend trends and technologies.
You will bring:
Solid HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+)
Experience writing CSS at scale - Sass is a strong advantage (BEM or similar naming)
jQuery and vanilla JS for carousels, animation, lazy loading, and forms
Basic knowledge of WordPress theme work, or a similar CMS (e.g. Drupal, Craft, Contentful)
Comfort with Git
Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
Timber/Twig or Basic PHP
Nice to have:
React, Next.js, or another modern JavaScript framework
Basic knowledge of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling
ACF, other CMS field/templating tools
npm-based builds: Gulp, Webpack, or Laravel Mix
Awareness of performance (image srcset/picture, lazy loading) and a11y (focus states, skip links, semantic HTML)
And in return, Williams Commerce offers:
Unlimited holiday (paid annual leave)
Employee health care (after one year's service)
Professional development
EAP Programme
Pension Scheme
Healthcare and pension plans.
Discounted city parking
Free snacks
Cycle Scheme, Shops and restaurant discounts, referral schemes.
Why Us?
Williams Commerce recognises that managing diversity is a continuous process of improvement and not a one-off initiative. Therefore, we develop and review our diversity strategy on an annual basis to support the achievement of business goals, including ways of addressing the diverse needs of our clients.
As a growing, global company, we focus on fairness and inclusion, ensuring that merit, competence, and potential are the basis for all decisions about recruitment, development and appraisals. Williams Commerce takes pride in keeping up to date with employment law and best practice when promoting equal opportunities and ensuring a diverse workforce.
- Department
- Williams Commerce
- Location
- Leicester
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Salary
- £25,000/year
Leicester
Workplace & culture
We work in a supportive hybrid environment with a culture that enables us to celebrate our differences as people from diverse backgrounds. We are challenged daily by our mission to inch towards making better versions of ourselves which translates into the growth of our brands and making them better.
About Next 15 Group plc
We are growth consultants. We are obsessed with finding ways to help our customers grow sustainably whether that’s focused on their revenue, brands or impact on the world. Everything we do is driven by data and embraces technology. We employ close to 4,000 people globally across our agencies, spanning digital content, marketing, PR, consumer, technology, marketing software, market research, public affairs, and policy communications
Our Mission
Our mission is to become the world’s leading growth consultancy. For Next 15, growth consulting isn’t just about growth in sales and profitability. It is growth in reputation, talent and product market share. It’s growth in valuation, innovation and talent retention. Growth is a complex problem, and it needs a sophisticated solution.
Businesses are increasingly one large, interconnected digital entity. A problem or opportunity in one area is now connected to everything else. We view our clients through this digital lens to knit together insight, creative, business design, digital build and customer engagement under one roof to solve today’s most pressing business challenges.
Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance
We demonstrate our commitment to running a more sustainable, equitable and diverse organisation that displays leadership in governance and values, through our ESG Strategic Priorities. To learn more about our priorities and how we are committed to continually growing and improving them across the Group, you can visit the Sustainability section of our website, where you can also read our latest ESG Report.