Englishtown.com

Company Information:
Englishtown.com is the world’s leading e-learning service for English language training, providing online courses to more than 100,000 students and thousands of companies each year. The Englishtown service combines live, teacher-led online speaking classes with 1,200 hours of interactive multimedia courseware to create a fast, fun and convenient way to learn spoken English.

A subsidiary of EF Education, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar English training company, Englishtown is based in Hong Kong, with sales and support offices in 15 countries, offline corporate training institutes in Cambridge, England and Boston, USA, research and development facility in Shanghai, China and system development in Chennai, India.

Technology is a driving force for Englishtown and with the very fast growth the company is now experiencing comes a need for highly skilled staff.

Front-end web developer

Role Description:
We are currently looking for a web developer to work on the development of web sites and pages, as well as support our numerous online campaigns.

This person will work on front-end web development together with the marketing staff in Hong Kong and interact with our back-end developers for implementation. This is a challenging job that demands excellent web development skills and a good feel for design.

Candidate Background:

Skills & Experience
• Experience in front-end development and building dynamic web pages/emails from ground up
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web 2.0/Ajax, ASP/.Net, Flash with Action script and necessary applications for web design, such as Photoshop
• Skills and proven practice in SQL, Access and Excel
• Experience with Content Mgmt. Systems
• Knowledge of blogs, wikis, forums, meta-data, tagging, RSS is a plus
• Knowledge in back-end development and database management
• Good communication skills, both written and spoken English
• Good skills and understanding in web design and internet business processes

Language skills:
• English and Cantonese

How to apply
Please send your resume as well as a brief cover letter. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only.