Senior Front End Developer (Manchester)

We’re Persona.Studio, a purpose-driven creative brand and digital studio working across outdoor, luxury retail, hospitality, and the arts. We believe in thoughtful, impactful design and a collaborative, supportive work culture.

We're looking for a talented Front End Developer with 5+ years of experience, a strong portfolio of high quality website build examples, and a passion for clean code, modern frameworks and producing quality digital experiences. You’ll be part of a small team where ideas, creativity, and collaboration are valued.

Responsibilities

• Work directly alongside our technical director to create digital projects that are visually stunning, fast, and emphasise user experience.
• Handle the build of full web projects from the design stage through front-end prototype development, into CMS build and testing.
• Lead greenfield projects before the design stage and inform and recommend features before they reach build.
• Guide the development of our Headless CMS Solutions with both Sanity and Wordpress API integrations.
• Communicate with project managers and the design team to ensure deadlines are achievable and scope is realistic.
• Meet with clients to discuss website design and functionality.

Qualifications / Experience

• Degree level training in a relevant subject is desired but not essential based on the rest of the experience.
• 4+ years of experience in front end development in a professional environment.
• Knowledge of advanced Wordpress templating techniques, ideally including using Timber/Twig templating, and Advanced Custom Fields.
• Ability to create vanilla javascript modules from scratch with standards compliant ES 2016 syntax.
• Knowledge of one or more modern Javascript frameworks such as React or NextJS.
• Experience creating CSS styles from scratch, using modular CSS methodologies alongside experience with Tailwind.
• Advanced SASS techniques such as variables and array mapping.
• E-commerce experience, ideally using Shopify or expanding Wordpress sites with WooCommerce.
• Knowledge of different types of task runners and techniques for concatenating and minifying Stylesheets and Javascript.
• A strong sense of design, functionality and user experience.

The Studio

We are based in a newly refurbished studio in the heart of the Northern Quarter, and follow a hybrid work approach, with 3 days in the office and 2 at home, but also offer flexibility with the studio open all days, depending on what works best for the projects that people are working on. Everyone within our studio is encouraged to work in a manner that they feel benefits themselves and their output.

Working towards B-Corp Certification, to show our commitment to people and planet.

We offer

• A flexible, fair, and inclusive workplace.
• A commitment to sustainability and ethical design.
• A team that values diverse perspectives and fresh ideas.
• We welcome applications from all backgrounds—if you feel you’d be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.