Front-End Developer

What you’ll be doing:

• Creating prototypes and high-quality production-ready React/NextJS front-end single page applications
• Driving forward the quality – in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, code reviews
• Delivering on an Agile workstream of front-end developers on a project, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning and estimates
• Conversing confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Building modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
• Representing front-end in a client-facing capacity
• Cooperating with design and marketing teams to gather and refine specifications and requirements for development
• Being involved in existing and new integrations for the platform
• Having full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance, expansion and scaling
• Staying current with evolving standards and technologies, learning new skills as needed

What we want from you:

• Commercial experience of hands on React development, with a solid understanding of the core concepts
• Commercial experience of serverless development and server-side development with NextJS
• Solid understanding of state management technologies/approaches i.e. Redux, Flux
• Commercial Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS) and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry defined coding standards
• Commercial experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)
• Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation, refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos
• Experience in component development with Storybook
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security and usability
• Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders
• Proficient understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility issues
• Commercial experience working on SPA solutions, ideally within e-commerce
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Grunt and webpack
• Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.
• Have experience of integrating with a variety of external, 3rd party systems