We are seeking an experienced (5 years +) senior front-end developer with excellent CSS, HTML, jQuery skills. You should be comfortable building sites from scratch producing fantastic clean, semantic markup without the need for frameworks.

You should also have experience building rock solid, standards compliant, cross-browser compatible websites along with a good to excellent understanding of JavaScript and when to use it; you will be comfortable writing your own jQuery functions rather than rely on plugins (or writing your own plugins). A keen eye for design and an understanding of user experience design would be an advantage. You likely have an interest in emerging trends: canvas, media queries, flexible grids, and draft CSS3 enhancements.

You will spend much of your time working closely with consultants, designers and other developers in our teams. As such, in addition to very high technical standards, we also expect you to have good social and communication skills and be used to working well in a team environment.

In return we’ll offer a competitive salary, an informal working environment (no suits required) in a great location and fabulous office in Shad Thames / Butler’s Wharf, where you’ll have easy access to great coffee, good restaurants and get to work alongside a bunch of knowledgeable and passionate people joined together by a desire to help change the way people collaborate and communicate.

Must be expert in:

• Semantic, standards-compliant (X)HTML(5)
• CSS(3)
• Accessibility
• Cross-browser compatibility

Proficient in:

• Object-Oriented JavaScript – your Javascript should be unobtrusive; we strive for Progressive Enhancement over Graceful Degradation.
• WordPress theming
• Interaction Design
• Git or other version control tools
• Mac OS X
• User Experience Design
• Adobe Suite

Any experience with the following is an advantage:

• Interaction design
• Visual Design
• Ruby on Rails (HAML/erb)
• CSS frameworks (SASS/LESS)
• PHP
• ASP.net
• Flash/Actionscript
• Mobile Development (including Responsive Web Design, media queries, web applications)

Please forward all applications to: iwanttowork@headshift.com highlighting the position you are applying for.

Headshift is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.