Blue Cube Communications Ltd - Online Marketing Birmingham

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About Who We Are

An exciting opportunity to join the Midlands fastest growing web agency. We have a range of clients from FTSE 250 Companies (National Express, Guardian Media Group, Britvic), along with other household names such as Meccano, Westland Horticulture and Debenhams.

Web Designer

You will:

  • Have a portfolio of creative work
  • Be able to demonstrate solid web build experience (HTML/CSS)
  • Have had agency experience – Ideally, at least 2 years.
  • Have experience of working on medium to large projects.

Can you work within a team on a variety of bespoke web applications? Can you produce high quality solutions, to specification, on time and budget? Are you able to work alongside the other departments, in particular the Development, SEO and Analytics team to ensure solutions are optimised to perform at the highest level?

Skills, knowledge and experience:

  • A relvant Media based Honours Degree is desirable.
  • Experience working closely with a back end development team coding XHTML/CSS websites.
  • Knowledge of using Adobe Photoshop.
  • Experience with CSS3 and HTML5 coding.
  • Comfortable coding basic PHP.
  • Passion for emerging web technologies
  • Eye for detail, design flair, and a love of web typography
  • A flexible attitude with proven experience of working in a small team.
  • A good understanding of website information architecture to help developers create a website.
  • Knowledge and experience of SEO and web accessibility would be an advantage.
  • Good communication skills are essential for liaising closely with customers and colleagues at the design stage and throughout a project.
  • Ability to use initiative and work under pressure to achieve tight deadlines.
  • Organised with attention to detail.

We work extensively with Word Press and Expression Engine so knowledge of these CMS systems would be highly advantageous.

Salary range: £20-£25k


Lead Developer

As our lead PHP Web Developer you will be involved all aspects of site development from server maintenance to source control and CMS integration. You will have the opportunity to implement your own ideas and processes in order to aid the development methodologies within our design and development team.

You will be customer focussed, with a passion for detail, comfortable working with LAMP environments and be ruthlessly organised.

PHP Developer Responsibilities:

  • PHP and HTML development of client websites.
  • Maintaining client websites.
  • Interacting with clients.
  • Keep up to date with current and emerging web technologies.

PHP Web Developer Person Specification:

  • Proven experience in Web Development.
  • Experience in developing eCommerce websites.
  • Excellent PHP knowledge.
  • Excellent knowledge of GIT/Source Control.
  • Experience working with MySQL.
  • Good HTML and CSS knowledge.
  • A good eye for detail.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience using jQuery is desirable.

Salary range: £25-£30k

Due to our rural location a car would be considered essential.


  • Westland Horticulture

    Web Design, SEO Westland Horticulture

  • Guardian Media Group

    Web Build and Hosting Guardian Media Group

  • Meccano

    Web Build and Hosting Meccano

  • Jones and Shipman

    SEO Jones and Shipman

  • ARM Holdings

    Annual Report Build ARM Holdings

  • Unwins

    Gro-Sure Website Unwins

  • SLR Consulting

    Web Design, Hosting, Support, SEO SLR Consulting

  • National Express

    National Express National Express

Company Registration Details

The Blue Cube Communications Ltd, Bordesley Hall,
The Holloway
, Alvechurch, Birmingham B48 7QA

01527 595 595 - 01527 595 122

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