Frontend Software Engineer

YouGov; London; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global online research company is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer for a remote position in the UK. The role involves collaborating with various teams to design and implement innovative user interfaces and features, ensuring high code quality and maintainability. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and strong skills in ECMAScript, unit testing, and collaboration. Join our remote team to shape the future of our data products.

Qualifications

• Commitment to high development standards and comprehensive testing.
• Ability to work collaboratively with peers across various functions.
• Appetite for continual improvement and growth.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with other frontend and backend engineers to design, build, test, and deploy new user-facing features and interactive data visualizations.
• Contribute to code quality through unit testing, integration testing, code review, and system design.
• Manage the application's state to ensure a predictable, consistent, and performant user experience.

Skills

Collaborative work

Self-motivation

Time management

Problem-solving

Ability to estimate work

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Programming, Computer Science, or Engineering-related field

Tools

ECMAScript

Webpack

Babel

Styled Components

Storybook

Jest

CircleCI

Job description

Role: Frontend Software Engineer (Data Experience)

Reports to: Software Delivery Manager

Work location: Anywhere, 100% remote in the UK

About YouGov

YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.
We speak daily to our panel of over 24 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world.
We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.

With operations in the UK, North America, Mainland Europe, the Nordics, the Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific, YouGov has one of the world’s largest research networks.

About the Crunch Team

The Frontend Software Engineer role in the Data Experience tribe will work within the Crunch team.
Crunch is the core web application for our syndicated data products, custom research, and first-party research hub.

The Crunch team is responsible for creating innovative, intuitive, accessible, and engaging experiences for the world’s leading brands.
This role will be a vital part of the evolution of one of our premier data products, such as YouGov Brand Index and Profiles.

We are inviting you to join our fully remote team of developers and operators helping make our platform faster, more secure, and more reliable.
You would help us deliver new features and build the future for how we deploy our products faster and safer, while increasing the availability and reliability of our systems.

You will

Explore different ways of problem-solving

Discover, explain, and defend your choices in implementation

Be self-motivated and disciplined in order to work with our fully distributed team

As Crunch’s employees are completely distributed, it’s crucial that you can work well independently, and keep yourself motivated and focused.
We move fast but carefully, with an earnest commitment to not breaking things… well, not too much.

About the Role

The Discovery Team is part of the Data Experience tribe and is responsible for designing and developing frontend systems to support Crunch’s analytics experience for research projects and YouGov syndicated data products such as Profiles.

What You Will Do

Collaborate closely with other frontend and backend engineers to design, build, test, and deploy new user-facing features and interactive data visualizations

Work with Product and non-technical colleagues, as well as independently

Contribute to code quality through unit testing, integration testing, code review, and system design

Establish realistic estimates for timelines and ensure deadlines are met

Assist in diagnosing and fixing system failures quickly

Manage the application's state to ensure a predictable, consistent, and performant user experience

Participate in improving our codebase by reviewing pull requests and maintaining high code quality and test coverage

Our Stack

ECMAScript (latest specification, as needed)

Webpack + Babel (ES6 modules)

Styled Components

Storybook

Unit testing with Jest (over 9000 unit tests across our app)

CircleCI for continuous integration and deployment

Basic Qualifications

Commitment to high development standards and comprehensive testing

Ability to work collaboratively with peers across various functions

Ability to estimate work, meet deadlines, and take ownership

Self-motivation and strong time management

Appetite for continual improvement and growth

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with data locality problems

Implementing design specifications from Figma

End-to-end testing using Playwright

Previous experience with responsive design interfaces

Bachelor’s Degree in Programming, Computer Science, or Engineering-related field

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YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.

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