Front End Developer Career Opportunity at Dotsavvy in Kenya

Job Title: Front End Developer

Organisation: Dotsavvy

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Closing Date: 18th April 2014

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Front End Developer is responsible for producing the front-end of websites from designs given to them by the creative department.
• The front-end will have to be developed as a theme for Wordpress.

Minimum Requirements:

• Excellent with WordPress. You must have experience building websites and/or themes from scratch with WordPress.
• PHP / MySQL. Some experience. You should be comfortable using PHP to write simple scripts to store form data and interact with WordPress.
• Excellent with HTML5 / CSS3 / responsive design. Knowledgeable about common cross-browser issues and how to resolve them.
• JavaScript / jQuery. intermediate experience - basic animation/user interaction. (Knowledge of CSS Framework a plus)
• Able build websites from layered files (mostly Photoshop)
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledgeable about current trends and tools
• Experienced in UI / UX fundamentals and best practices
• Have the ability to run tests (automated or manual) on his / her own work.
• You will be requested to work within the Dotsavvy office from 8.30am to 5pm, weekdays.

The candidate will work with an assigned project manager to help achieve their respective objectives.

This position reports directly to the assigned Project Manager.

The candidate will be requested to prove his / her knowledge and expertise.

How to Apply:

Send all Applications to: jobs@dotsavvyafrica.com

In your application, detail recent projects you have been involved in.

Title your email "Application for Front-End Developer"

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

You can find out more about Dotsavvy from our web site at http://www.dotsavvyafrica.com.