Javascript / Front-end Developer

You’ll be part of our User Experience Team, reporting to the Head of UX and working closely with our Development and Design departments. You will also be involved in the planning and design of the UI, developing interfaces and user journeys through the use of wireframes, conceptual diagrams, mock-ups and prototypes.

You’ll be based full-time in our Windsor office, west of London. We’re easily commutable from London (west from Paddington or south-west direct from Waterloo), Reading, Staines or Slough. You’ll work in a relaxed and social office, alongside a variety of other Global Personals people – not just developers!

Responsibilities

* Plan and design user interfaces through use of wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes.
* Develop and maintain front-end development processes and design patterns including code snippets and libraries.
* Plain, build and maintain front-end projects, working closely with our Development and Design teams.
* Collaborate with the design team to produce effective, interesting and exciting visual designs.

Experience:

* A passion to learn and develop using new technologies.
* Excellent knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
* Experience producing wireframes and prototypes to communicate your ideas and concepts.
* Ability to visualise concepts to demonstrate ideas.
* An extreme attention to detail.
* Experience creating front-end commercial websites and applications.

We offer fantastic company benefits for all employees. Following your probation we’ll match up to 5% of your salary into your company stakeholder pension, you’ll be covered with BUPA health care with any medical history disregarded, we’ll cover you with a 4× salary death-in-service life insurance policy, and we’ll contribute to local gym membership.

You’ll get an iMac and a Cinema Display to work on. We have a free posh coffee machine, games consoles, a football table and more.

Please apply with your CV or fully completed Profile. Links to your GitHub account, portfolio or blog will also be helpful.

We can only consider candidates entitled to work in the UK and who are able to work full-time in our Windsor office.

No agencies please.

We provide the widest range of online dating and friendship sites designed around the needs of our members and helping them to connect in a fun, innovative and safe online environment.

Founded by Ross Williams and Steve Pammenter in 2003, Global Personals Limited has grown from humble beginnings operating out of Ross’s apartment to become the one of the most successful online dating companies in the world now employing over 80 full time staff with annualised revenues in excess of £20million.

After launching our first dating site Singles365.com in 2003, we established WhiteLabelDating.com as a platform for brands and individuals to use to power their own dating sites.

Over time we have welcomed some of the world’s most successful media organisations to our platform including Bauer Media, National Magazine Company, IPC, Future Publishing and Dennis Publishing.

We’re also the dating platform of choice for hundreds of successful internet entrepreneurs who use our WhiteLabelDating.com platform to power dating sites including PlentyMoreFish.com, Dateline.co.uk, Single50s.co.uk, Canoodle.me.uk and TheDatingGroup.co.uk.

We also recognise the need to grow both the domestic and international online dating markets and have continued to invest heavily in a number of key consumer propositions which we control, including Singles365.com, DatingAgency.com and Flirtfix.com.

Consumers are at the heart of everything we do, flexible and open to feedback, we want to make the experiences on our sites the best that they can possibly be.

We’re passionate about connecting people – we believe that life is for living and want to make a positive difference in people’s lives.

We're a dedicated bunch, working together as one great team to achieve wonderful things.