As a Senior Front End Engineer, your primary focus will be building the Client side of our product, working alongside back-end developers to create a comprehensive digital platform. An expert in the domain and able to develop frontend systems with a high degree of accuracy, you will consistently develop code that is aligned with the overall vision to ensure the highest quality development is always achieved and it creates a great user experience. You will have excellent knowledge of the DevOps process and can work with large and complex codebases to ensure our product is leading edge.
What youll be doing:
- You will work very closely with the rest of the team to ensure our systems are fit for purpose through a nuanced understanding of the business context and the factors that drive the product life cycle.
- You will work closely with the Engineering Lead Product leads across the other product areas in the business
- You will occasionally provide designs and solutions for critical projects that allow the development teams to deliver software on time and to agreed functional and non-functional specifications
- You will influence the management of technical debt across projects; making the right calls between balancing pragmatic delivery and compromising implementation patterns
- You will be the senior contact/escalation point for front-end people issues, hiring and working with operational leads to effectively onboard new team members
- You will regularly take part in the Product definition
- You will conduct regular code review of your colleges and ensure PRs are completed on time.
What youll need:
- Significant experience of working with senior stakeholders to manage expectations and provide technical insight
- Significant and demonstrable Cloud Computing experience with knowledge of Cloud Native products
- Significant and demonstrable experience of using Unix / Linux based Operating Systems
- An ability to understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions rapidly and effectively
- Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development (Jest, Enzyme) alongside use of automated test frameworks, mocking/stubbing
- Proven experience of project working and commercial development processes - particularly Agile methodologies
- Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
- Experience of working with Operational tooling surrounding the SDLC such as IAC, CI/CD
- Significant and demonstrable experience designing microservice architecture patterns
- Experience of working with API implementation patterns and interfaces
- Ideally, you have used GCP extensively
- 3+ years of experience as a Front-end Engineer (Front-end: React, Redux, rxjs, Angular, Vue)
- Experience of developing responsive web apps
- Experience in writing semantic HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processors like Sass and Less
- Understanding of app/browser performance improvement techniques and potential cross-browser issues
- Strong spoken and written English
Youre open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
Youre optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
Youre extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we deliver extraordinary every day.