Lead Developer - React, Redux and Material UI

As a Frontend focused Lead Developer you will be working in an agile team and working alongside other Developers to lead and build upon our quality centric eCommerce platform. You will be responsible for developing the user interface of our website platform and will have the opportunity to design architecture and select tools, to improve our skill set and improve our platform in line with the future road map.  The enterprise platform is currently used to drive numerous sites, serving millions of users worldwide.

As a passionate developer and have a keen mindsight to improve, you’ll enjoy working as part of a team. Comfortable with modern technologies and tooling, you’ll use best practices to improve the user experience and efficiency of development teams.

You will help provide development support to internal users, as well as offering out-of-hours cover during seasonal events and busy trading periods. You’ll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes and working practices, actively enabling the department to become as efficient and effective as it can be.

Criteria

Essential

• Strong experience of modern Javascript frameworks and libraries such as React, Redux.
• Some experience of using NodeJS to high performance sites.
• Awareness and practice of UI performance best practices
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
• Good knowledge in industry best practices in development.
• Experience in creating a responsive site with multiple viewports.
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude
• Experience in mentor junior developers on development methodologies and optimization techniques

Desirable

• Understanding of service-oriented architecture (an understanding of)
• Understanding of industry standard web accessibility, web design & usability
• Experience in building Micro Frontends
• Experience with Microsoft Azure
• Experience in working Agile team