FutureLearn
Front-end Development
FutureLearn pioneers the best social learning experiences for everyone, anywhere, by offering free courses from leading universities and cultural institutions. I worked there as a Front-end Developer for just over a year, working on both the learner-facing app and the partner-facing content management system.
Details
| Client | FutureLearn |
|---|---|
| Year | 2015 |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Tools & Tech | HAML, Sass, jQuery, Git |
| Output | HTML, CSS, jQuery, Pattern Library |
| URL | futurelearn.com |
Summary
As a front-end developer at FutureLearn my responsibilities included:
- Collaborating with designers and developers to create the features and functionality required by our learners and partners.
- Thinking in modular terms about our code and how to write code that is readable and intuitive to non front-end developers.
- Applying best practices to the creation of new atomic patterns in the FutureLearn pattern library, and maintaining it according to ongoing requirements.
- Writing HAML, Sass and jQuery to build the front-end of both the learner app and the partner content management system.
- Working extensively with Git in a fast moving, highly collaborative development environment.
- Refactoring existing code to improve efficiency and clean up technical debt, for example removing Bootstrap from the CMS which was no longer compatible with the FutureLearn modular pattern library.
- Hiring of new staff, including CV screening, running technical interviews and helping to choose candidates after interview.
