Senior Frontend Engineer

You’ll be a passionate, pragmatic Frontend / Web Software Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customer first. You’ll enjoy working as part of a team and be a keen problem solver. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and frontend development tooling and technologies you’ll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams. You will be responsible for Including, but not limited to:

• Use your in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node and the ecosystem of tools to develop and

implement scalable frontend systems - ability, ability, Tesco,

• Profile and optimise code
• Apply understanding of cohesion and architectural principles to create well structured, maintainable software
• Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability

with minimal guidance

• Translate requirements into tasks & code
• Develop high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery, ruthlessly pursuing continuous integration and delivery - CICD
• Commit code early and often, demonstrating understanding of version control & branching strategies
• Automate everything by default
• Write secure code by default
• Write maintainable code and observe basic hygiene practices
• Implement relevant project instrumentation
• Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing
• Work effectively with product stakeholders to communicate and translate needs into product improvements
• Lead group discussions on system design and understand domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive

value

• Support production systems, resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis
• Debug/find complex problems and support/maintain the software solution
• Share knowledge with the wider engineering community
• Mentor and develop others around you
• Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools

We are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies. We expect to see some or all the following: * Commercial experience as a Frontend Software Developer

• Best-practices regarding all aspects of web development including design, semantic HTML mark-up, CSS, TypeScript,

and related technologies

• Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as: React, Redux, React-Router and testing with React

Testing Library Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Jasmine, Enzyme, Mocha.

• Experience of using Node.js to create high traffic applications. Perhaps using Express.js, Sails, Koa or similar
• Awareness and practice of UI performance best practices
• Understanding and exposure to integrating REST API and GraphQL endpoints
• Strong experience and understanding of industry standard web accessibility, web design & usability; to support sites

cross browser/platform/device

• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
• Exposure to the DevOps model
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools securely and responsibly where they add value
• Participate in on-call and production support processes
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code
• Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD

and TDD

• Work collaboratively and win as a team

Nice to have * Bringing multiple viewport responsive and adaptive web designs to life

• Modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks including Remix or Next.js
• Developing web applications within the constraints of “non-standard” devices

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.