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Not Your Average Web Dev Role

At Dirty Martini, we don’t just create websites, we craft digital experiences that captivate, convert, and push boundaries. Our clients don’t come to us for the ordinary; they choose us because our extraordinary work helps them stand out. If you’re looking for a role that challenges you to push creative boundaries, this is it.

This is your opportunity to not only build incredible projects, but also join an agency that’s already leading the way. Some of our recent awards include… x2 Awwwards Honourable Mentions, x3 CSS Design Awards, x1 Mindsparkle SOTD.

More Than Just Coding

You'll play a crucial role in delivering high-end, immersive digital experiences for luxury brands, leading hotels, Michelin-starred restaurants, and high-end construction companies. Working closely with our Senior Developer and design team, you’ll collaborate on developing bold concepts into pixel-perfect, high-performance experiences.

We run a modern JAMStack, headless architecture designed for performance and scale, with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You’ll be supported, but trusted. Guided, but not micromanaged.

✔ Building bespoke, high-end websites using our Vue.js/Nuxt

✔ Working with APIs to connect CMS content, ecommerce and custom logic

✔ Turning exceptional designs into refined, performant builds

✔ Collaborating with designers, strategists and project managers

✔ Maintaining and improving existing projects as they evolve

✔ Learning best practices around performance, security and scalability

✔ Contributing ideas - technically and creatively

✔ Develop industry-leading WordPress and Shopify websites for incredible clients.

✔ Maintain hosting environments - optimising performance, implementing security best practices, and managing DNS.

✔︎ Maintaining and updating existing websites.

✔︎ Creating optimal user journeys regardless of browsing device.

✔︎ Identifying and resolving technical issues.

✔ Contribute to thought leadership including contributing to blogs, case studies, and award submissions.

The Kind of Developer We’re Looking For

❌ You don’t need to be a senior.

✅ You do need to be curious, switched on, and proud of your craft.

You’ll be joining a web team that:

• Values clean architecture over hacks
• Cares deeply about performance, scalability and maintainability
• Works closely with designers, not around them
• Believes developers should think, not just implement

Skills & Experience:

You should already have:

• Solid HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals
• Experience with modern JS Frameworks, ideally Vue.js/Nuxt (commercial or strong personal projects)
• Experience working with APIs
• Understanding of component-based development
• Git version control experience
• A genuine interest in modern web development

Bonus points for:

• Node.js/Express experience
• Headless CMS experience
• Shopify or ecommerce exposure
• Performance optimisation awareness
• Animation libraries (GSAP, etc.)

Degrees matter less than ability, attitude and taste.

Benefits

✅ Competitive salary

The salary guide is up to £45000.00 per year, depending on person. We say depending on person, as it’s far more than just experience that’s important. Every person is unique, so we strive to find the best match for both company and candidate. We value what each individual brings to us and reward that accordingly, so rather than putting strict salary schedules here, we’d far rather have a chat and find out what each of us is looking for.

✅ Latest MacBooks / Mac Studio kit.

✅ Flexible schedule.

✅ Monday to Friday.

✅ No weekends.

✅ Company pension.

✅ City centre location with parking.

Perks

✅ 33 days holiday per year including bank holidays.

✅ Monthly Wellness Payment worth £600 per year to use on a subscription of your choice.

✅ Regular free lunches.

✅ Free tea & coffee, morning coffee run by Timber Coffee.

✅ Team outings and socials.

✅ Personal training and professional development allowance.

✅ Annual work anniversary gift.

✅ Christmas party.

✅ Summer party.

✅ Birthday pressies.

Recruitment process

1. Let’s chat - an informal coffee to see if there's a spark.

2. Meet the team - a deeper dive into the role and your experience.

3. Final interview / challenge - a chance to show us what you’ve got.

Ready to build something incredible? Apply now.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to £45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Exeter EX1 1QT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Experience:

• Web development: 1 year (preferred)

Location:

• Exeter EX1 1QT (preferred)

Work Location: In person