Frontend Engineer

Salary: £22,500 – 38,500 per year

Requirements

• We need proven ability to deliver customer-centric, value-driven solutions within a fast-paced software development lifecycle.
• We need strong hands-on production experience building applications using React and Next.js.
• We need a testing mindset with personal accountability for quality, backed by experience writing unit tests and using tools such as Jest or Playwright.
• We need a solid understanding of web accessibility standards and experience building highly accessible user interfaces.
• We need practical experience optimizing application performance, including bundle size and rendering efficiency, and familiarity with tools such as Lighthouse and GCP CDNs.
• We need demonstrated experience identifying, locating, and resolving production service faults.
• We need experience collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary teams and coaching or mentoring junior engineering colleagues.

Responsibilities

• We will expect you to develop scalable React and Next.js applications while defining clear component boundaries.
• We will expect you to build modern UI libraries or integrate with existing ones to ensure consistency across applications.
• We will expect you to design and document component library standards and patterns, and connect the frontend to backend services using RESTful APIs.
• We will expect you to own the testing and quality of your code, with support and guidance from Test Engineers.
• We will expect you to write clean code following modern web and accessibility standards, with unit testing as an everyday practice.
• We will expect you to establish effective frontend testing strategies using frameworks like Jest and Playwright.
• We will expect you to proactively pitch technical ideas and optimizations and take ownership of technical tasks.
• We will expect you to optimize application performance, focusing on bundle size, rendering efficiency, and Core Web Vitals.
• We will expect you to audit site speed using tools like Lighthouse and help design secure, performant GCP content delivery solutions.
• We will expect you to drive a customer-centric mindset and promote a test-and-learn approach to engineering and problem-solving.
• We will expect you to act as an accessibility champion and advocate for genuine user needs.
• We will expect you to coach and mentor junior colleagues and contribute to a healthy engineering culture.
• We will expect you to explain complex technical concepts in clear, non-technical language to internal and external stakeholders.

Technologies

• Backend
• Frontend
• GCP
• Support
• Jest
• Playwright
• React
• Web
• UX UI Design
• Cloud
• JavaScript

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Two days of paid volunteering
• Career growth opportunities
• Staff discounts
• Company pension
• Five weeks of holiday with the option to buy an extra week
• Birthday leave
• Free parking
• Health and wellbeing programme

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