Front End Software Developer

Wiltshire Farm Foods; Trowbridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the B2B food service sector is seeking a creative front end developer to join a passionate team. The candidate will contribute to the evolution of the digital ordering platform, utilizing modern frameworks like Angular and collaborating closely with back-end developers to deliver exceptional user interfaces. This position promises an exciting challenge within a supportive environment that encourages professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer

25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays

Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year

Discretionary annual bonus scheme

Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%

Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary

Subsidised canteen

Free parking

Free turkey or voucher at Christmas

apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years software development experience in a commercial setting.
• Experience developing Angular applications.
• Strong knowledge of Web UI development (HTML, SASS, CSS).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Angular.
• Work closely with back-end developers to translate business requirements.
• Engage with users to identify opportunities for improvement.

Skills

Angular

HTML

TypeScript

JavaScript

CSS

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

This exciting role offers a great opportunity for a creative and talented front end developer who is looking to join a small, focused, passionate, and supportive team to help contribute to the evolution of our core B2B ordering platform and play a key role in the transition to a next-generation digital ordering experience.

Reporting to the Software Development Manager you will help us improve our front-end applications to help drive productivity and efficiency within our business, and most importantly delight our customers.

As a highly motivated developer, with significant experience (at least 5 years), you will focus on creating features for modern cloud applications in Angular running on Azure. Within the digital products team, you will be the front-end expert, vital to sprint velocity, stand up, estimations, and retrospectives.

At a wider level, you will be critical to all stages of software development from architecture design, performance evaluation, to build and deployment pipeline creation, and application monitoring.

About Our Stack

To give you a flavour of some of the things you can expect to work with, our core stack is outlined below.

However, we are constantly learning and, where appropriate, incorporating the latest technologies in our projects.

We use modern software development practices including CI/CD and feature flagging, and are always looking to improve delivery of our software through automation, and collaboration with other areas of IT.

???? Backend: C# / .Net / SQL Server / RESTful APIs / Azure Event Hub Tools: LaunchDarkly, Grafana, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Copilot, Pluralsight

CI/CD: Azure Devops, GitHub Actions

Infrastructure: Azure, App Service, Cloudflare, Frontend: Angular, React, Flutter

Who we are

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Angular and related technologies (TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, etc)
• Work closely with back-end developers, and product owners to translate business requirements into clean and functional user interfaces.
• Optimise applications for performance and scalability while ensuring application security.
• Implement unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the application.
• Push for continuous improvement and technical excellence in our solutions owning your code out into production.
• Engage with users to understand their challenges and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Being proactive in your development and the development of other engineers. Seeking out conferences, suggesting videos, always looking to develop skills and experience, where necessary.
• Find opportunities to get involved in teams outside of IT to improve your understanding of business & customer challenges.

Qualifications/Personal Qualities

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years software development experience in a commercial setting.
• Proven experience developing Angular applications with a strong grasp of modern front-end principles and best practices.
• Solid knowledge of Web UI development (HTML, SASS, CSS, JS, TypeScript, etc.).
• Experience with version control systems, ideally Git.
• You are self-motivated and make pragmatic technical decisions separating perfection from delivering value to customers in a timely way.
• You have a strong focus on delivering quality code supported by code reviews and robust testing practices.

Desirable:

• Experience building applications with React
• Knowledge of feature flagging tooling like LaunchDarkly
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product delivery frameworks.
• API development using asp.net core (C#)
• Exposure to using OAuth2.0 / Open ID Connect in Angular applications.
• Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and security web applications.

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

Our Values

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.