Senior Frontend Engineer

We're looking for an experience Senior Frontend Engineer to join our product team to help us build world class digital experiences and products for our clients. The role would suit a senior developer with 4+ years experience who is focused on frontend development but interested in back-end, devops and everything in between! Senior Developers are responsible for development on our most challenging projects as well as assisting in team management, mentoring and setting the direction for our technology and products.

What you will be doing

• Lead development on larger projects
 or be confident flying solo on smaller projects
• Help to define and maintain internal processes and standards in collaboration with other members of the tech team
• Mentor less experienced team members; you will mentor colleague on patterns, best practices and techniques.
• Help to scope and estimate effort for build requirements on a variety of projects.
• Identify interesting new technology-related trends, techniques, tools and methodologies.

Job Requirement

• Extensive JavaScript experience (ES6, Typescript) and deep knowledge of any modern framework (eg. React, Svelte or Angular).
• In-depth knowledge of frontend web technologies (HTML5, CSS3) including modern CSS standards and use of preprocessors (eg. Sass, PostCSS) as well as frontend build tools (Node, Webpack).
• In-depth understanding of NodeJS and server-side rendering.
• Solid Unix/Linux and shell skills. You must be comfortable working from the command line, using git and running docker.
• Extensive experience working with third party APIs (GraphQL is essential).
• Experience with testing frameworks writing effective end-to-end tests.

Nice to have

• Server-side web technologies for API development (Node, Go).
• Shopify Storefront API experience.
• DevOps, web infrastructure (Kubernetes) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
• Experience with serverless environments (Firebase, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions

The mindset we are looking for

• Love what you do; we really care about our clients and the work.
• Love to learn; learning new things is what motivates all of us and is why we love the Web.
• Be proactive; you get out what you put in.
• Show talent; make us feel like we’ll never be that good.
• Attention to detail; we worry, fret and polish till it’s right.

What you’ll get out of it

We’re a small company and a tight team - we work collaboratively, we share load, we have deep specialist experience but often blend roles.

We’re also a tech start-up   —  researching, prototyping and building our own products as part of our R&D process. You’ll be actively involved in this with opportunities to explore technologies you’re most interested in.

We pay fair London wages, encourage decent amounts of holiday and support remote and flexible working. To make sure our staff were as safe as possible during the pandemic, we were all working from home, with mature systems and processes in place that make it as easy as possible. We'll continue to offer the flexibility to work fully remote (from anywhere in the UK), in the office (we have a lovely private office at Runway East in London Bridge) or a bit of both.

Our hiring process

Initial application – a short initial chat by phone/zoom to learn a bit more about each other.

Technical Interview – a more in depth interview to chat about your technical experience and skills. We ask candidates to complete a small code challenge ahead of the session, so we can talk through your code and discuss your processes in the interview.

Team Interviews – a short meeting with our founders and some of the wider members of the team such as designers, product managers.

Decision – either an offer or we will come back to you with feedback.

The best way to find out more is to apply - we’re open to having a chat and answering any questions you may have.

Salary 50k+ dependent on experience.