Frontend Developer

Bright Signals are one of the fastest growing agencies in Scotland – recently publicly announcing our intention to commit to being an employee-owned agency. We're a multi-award winning agency – scooping 5 golds, and a bronze, including being named Agency of the year at the Marketing Society Star Awards in June 2025.

We work with some of Scotland’s biggest brands including Edinburgh Gin, Tennent’s, Innis & Gunn, STV, Linn, Business Gateway and much more! We’re one of only 5 agencies in Scotland on the Scottish Government roster for Digital Marketing Services, one for Creative Services and another for Digital Marketing / Website Services.

Bright Signals is a talent agency. Nothing more, nothing less. A place where people can be themselves, express themselves and excel themselves. Where we want you to experience the proudest moments of your career.

Our work spans everything from TV ads to eCommerce sites and local authority web portals – but the Interactive department primarily use ASP.NET, Azure and Umbraco CMS for web development – as well as PHP technologies such as Drupal, Craft, WordPress and Laravel, with use of headless CMS tech fronted by Netlify, Gatsby and Next.js.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced, confident, Front-End Web Developer. Someone who cares first and foremost about turning a design for screen into something that’s pixel perfect and works on any device – in any orientation.

Your typical day to day would be building, evolving, and supporting responsive, accessible websites and web applications to the very highest of standards – testing your work to ensure compliance and compatibility cross-device and cross-platform.

Ideally, you’ll have agency experience with a strong portfolio of existing websites / applications and have been a front-end developer for 3-5 years with a strong interest in learning and implementing cutting-edge front end web technologies with an appreciation of the full lifecycle of projects from planning to go-live.

What we’re looking for

• Extensive experience of HTML, CSS/SASS
• You don’t have to be a JavaScript (JS) Guru, but utilising JS is a requirement
• Experience and familiarity with JS frameworks (Angular, Vue, or React)
• Extensive experience in building responsive, mobile-first, websites
• Experience of writing accessible WCAG2.x code
• Able to provide accurate estimations and able to work within budget
• Someone who cares about creating lightweight/lean pages with a focus on performance and page speed
• Someone who is both self-efficient and able to work remotely but also able to work well with the wider team
• A quick learner who is comfortable picking up new technologies and who can get up to speed quickly with other people’s code and standards
• Obsessive attention to detail and someone who takes great pride in creating flawless work who cares about creating pixel perfect, fully tested sites and apps.
• Experience of working with the design and development teams on component-based work, extending design guidelines and making the transition from design, to front-end, to back-end as seamless as possible
• Solid Technical SEO experience
• The ability to multi-task across multiple projects
• A positive attitude and a great team player
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary – we also provide the following benefits:

• Flexible, hybrid working
• Condensed hours with the option of you taking every second Friday off
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality – with a huge number of rewards and benefits including from Apple Watches to mental health app subscriptions to reduced gym memberships. All you need to do is stay fit and healthy and live a healthy lifestyle
• Life insurance (Death in Service) with AIG.
• Annual social budget (allocated by the social committee).
• Annual personal training allowance to spend on any training you like (capped at £100 - doesn't need to be work related).
• Salary sacrifice Bike to Work scheme (save the VAT on a new bike and accessories).
• Regular 1-to-1 support, and appraisal process and annual pay reviews.
• Regular all expenses paid company socials.
• Company Pension contribution.
• Initial holiday allowance is 31 days (including 9 statutory holidays). Holiday allowance increases yearly after 2 years by 1 day. The maximum holiday allowance that can be accrued is 37 days total.

If you’d like to discuss joining Agency of the Year, then please get in touch with david.buchan@brightsignals.co.uk