Discover Digital

Description:

We are looking for an ambitious Graduate Web Developer (C# / ASP.Net) to join our growing digital agency in Reading. You will be technically competent with a passion for delivery. Your code will make a difference to our clients’ businesses so it needs to be of high quality, intuitive and efficient. You will be a team player with an ambition to progress in an exciting, energetic and highly diverse environment. You'll be expected to hit the ground running and start delivering straight away. We have a range of exciting projects across a number of industries and we are proud of our projects being delivered on time, on quality, on budget and realising the business objectives of our clients. Whilst you'll be encouraged to expand and improve your skill set at Discover IT, essential technical skills and experience needed for this role include:

• Have a portfolio of website development work which demonstrates your abilities
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Experience writing technical / functional specification documents

The ideal candidate will:

• Strong OOP understanding
• Working knowledge of Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL
• Demonstrable experience using ASP.NET Web Forms / MVC
• Demonstrable experience using SQL Server
• Know how to configure Windows Server and IIS
• Automation testing including load testing and web driver browser testing
• Experience working with a cloud computing providers such as Microsoft Azure

The successful creative candidate can expect to receive a competitive rate of pay, relative to skills and experience, with yearly reviews and appraisals. Discover IT also operates and contributes to an excellent company pension scheme. We are a dedicated and enthusiastic team and the on-going training and development of our staff is an important priority for the company.

• Competitive Salary
• Experience Required: 2+ years
• Job Type: Permanent
• Job Status: Full Time

Other Benefits:

• High spec workstations with dual screen monitors
• Opportunities to attend industry events such as Kentico Connection and Microsoft TechDays
• Central Locations in Reading and London in brand new modern offices
• Private Health Insurance and Lifestyle Benefits
• Cycle To Work scheme

Job Application Link: https://discoverdigital.com/careers/graduate-web-developer

Description:

Are you a one-of-a-kind design wizard, budding with creativity? We have a new opportunity for a UI Designer to come on board and express yourself, you will be an integral part of our Design team’s success by creating beautiful, usable interfaces that enhance our client's users' digital experiences. As a UI Designer, you will lead a user-centred design process to solve some of our clients biggest challenges, you will drive the performance of our digital journeys while supporting the evolution of style-guides and design principles.

In this role you will:

• Be part of a multi-disciplinary squad who's a job it is to help to promote delightful, coherent and consistent experience to our client's users
• You will help identify new opportunities and shape requirements through discovery activities
• You will make objective design decisions, with inclusive design at the heart of everything you do
• You will be an enthusiastic advocate of the role design can play in evolving our clients brand, showcasing your work to stakeholders across their business
• You will be expected to intensively use – and promote the use of – analytics, user testing data and other research tools to drive for optimal user experiences, encouraging feedback and iterating our designs accordingly
• You will work with the design and front-end engineering teams to update and maintain reusable libraries of UX/UI styles and components, and will generally demonstrate a cost-conscious view towards design approach (e.g. designs should be appropriate, timely and to quality that does not require expensive rework in development)
• You’ll bring your ideas to life through expert visual and UI design, which you’ll also utilise this to shape the design direction for our clients
• You’ll facilitate collaborative, cross-functional workshops to explore a variety and volume of design solutions, backed by insight and data

Hit apply if you:

• Have an eye for detail and can demonstrate a high level of creative execution of design, typography and layout
• Are comfortable prototyping at a range of fidelity, from pen and paper sketches to fully interactive, animated prototypes built with the latest tools
• Are familiar with a lean, fast-paced and iterative process
• You are a naturally curious and tenacious problem solver
• You have a team-oriented style, open to new ideas and to diverse opinions
• You are clear and passionate when it comes to articulating your design rationale to stakeholders. You know how to tell a great story
• You’re self-motivated, self-accountable and outcome-focused
• You have a fluent approach to problem-solving, who’s comfortable in the face of big ambiguous problems.
• You have proven experience of working in a digital design environment
• Can champion usability and user-centred design that is validated through user research and testing
• Can demonstrate an awareness of the latest design and industry trends
• You can share an awesome portfolio that tells the story of your design thinking

It would also be good, but not essential that you:

• Experience in rapid prototyping
• Experience in task-flow, user-flows and wire-flows
• Experience in graphic design

Salary:

• A competitive salary is offered and is dependent on skills and experience

Experience:

• UI Design: 3 years+ (Required)

Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Annual Training Budget
• Childcare Vouchers
• Private Health Insurance
• Performance Related Bonuses
• High spec workstations with dual screen monitors (Apple Mac)
• Opportunities to attend industry events such as Kentico Connection and Microsoft TechDays
• Central Locations in Reading and London in brand new modern offices
• Private Health Insurance and Lifestyle Benefits
• Cycle To Work scheme

Who are Discover IT?

• Fast Expanding Digital Agency
• Top 10 Kentico Gold Partner in Europe and Globally
• Global Clients in Financial Services, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Local Government, Non-Profits
• Microsoft Partner
• Google Partner
• Offices in Reading Town Centre and London Paddington

Job Application Link: https://discoverdigital.com/careers/ui-ux-designer

Description:

Are you looking to progress your career and learn new skills with a Fast Expanding Digital Agency? We have a new opportunity available for an enthusiastic, frontend developer to develop great UIs for our clients. We know that the world of web development is a creative place, and we’re looking for someone full of ideas who are excited about what they do and is eager to make their mark and take their career to the next level. With ever more creative ways to build, design and market websites, it’s more essential than ever for us to find talented, creative and innovative individuals who take their craft seriously.

In this role you will:

• Develop medium to large scale web and mobile responsive websites
• Create engaging interfaces for our clients
• Manage complete website lifecycle from conception to launch
• Keep up-to-date with modern web trends and make suggestions for improvement of the company’s online activities

Hit apply if you:

• Have a portfolio you can show off clearly showing your flair for UI development
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML5 and CSS3
• Have knowledge of CSS preprocessors (Primary: SASS/SCSS)
• A strong understanding of JQuery & client-side JavaScript as well as the latest frameworks (ideally React or Vue.js)
• Possess a good understanding of how CMS's work
• Find Adobe Creative Suite or sketch a place of fun
• Understand how to make a functional piece of software look beautiful

It would also be good, but not essential that you:

• Have knowledge working with Microsoft Azure
• Have experience of task runners (ideally Gulp)
• Have used package managers such as NPM and Yarn
• Are comfortable working with API's and everything around them
• Have a good design eye and are happy to put that to work with the design team

Salary:

A competitive salary is offered and is dependent on skills and experience

Experience:

• Front end development: 3+ years (Required)
• React JS experience: 2+ years (optional)
• Agency experience: 1+ years (optional)

Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Annual Training Budget
• Childcare Vouchers
• Private Health Insurance
• Performance Related Bonuses
• High spec workstations with dual screen monitors (Apple Mac)
• Opportunities to attend industry events
• Central Locations in Reading and London in brand new modern offices
• Private Health Insurance and Lifestyle Benefits
• Cycle To Work scheme

Who are Discover IT?

• Fast Expanding Digital Agency
• Top 10 Kentico Gold Partner in Europe and Globally
• Global Enterprise Clients in Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Local Government, Non-Profits
• Microsoft Partner
• Google Partner
• Offices in Reading Town Centre and London Paddington

Job Application Link: https://discoverdigital.com/careers/frontend-developer