Mid- Senior Frontend Developer

PetLab Co.; City Of London; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing pet supplement company is seeking a Mid-Senior Frontend Developer to join their remote team. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in frontend technologies, especially React and JavaScript. You will work on enhancing their ecommerce platform, collaborating closely with a team in a vibrant, fast-paced environment. This role offers a competitive salary and a range of exciting benefits, including private health care and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Private Health Care

Generous Annual Leave - 28 days + public and bank holidays

Flexible Working Hours

Employee Assistance Programme

Workplace pension scheme with 5% employer contribution

Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave

Generous Learning and development budget

Puppy Therapy

Free breakfast, fruits, and snacks

Life Assurance

Discount Vouchers & Gym Memberships

Give Back Day - extra day off and £50 to charity

Qualifications

• 4+ years working as an engineer on frontend technology.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript & TypeScript.
• Solid experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team lead to understand the context behind products.
• Ensure the platform is performant, secure, scalable, and reliable.
• Champion and share best practices to improve the team and code.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React.js

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Tailwind CSS

Automated testing tools

UI/UX design appreciation

Tools

Next.js

AWS

Job description

Overview

Title: Mid- Senior Frontend Developer

Location: UK Remote

Salary: 55k - 60k plus bonus

Position: Perm

About PetLabCo.

PetLab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in 2018, we successfully achieved a 9-figure revenue last year without any external funding. We have a loyal community of loving pet parents and over 1.5 million happy dogs whose lives have been positively impacted by our innovative products. Our team is vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-driven where high-performers are valued and rewarded. It is the ideal place for an ambitious, hardworking, animal lover who wants to progress their career rapidly.

A Day In The Life…

Reporting to our Principal Frontend Developer you’ll join a growing agile team of highly talented engineers working on building scalable solutions for our ecommerce platform. You’ll be pivotal in keeping our customer experience world class when it comes to delivery and design. We’re looking for someone who has had varying experiences in the frontend technology space and has knowledge on improving application performance and scalability. You will be joining PetlabCo’s Frontend Development Retention Team working on our customer account portal (Subscriptions, tracking etc), supporting PetlabCo’s major rebranding rollout projects in Canada and UK and working on our advanced personalisation engine.

We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. This is an exciting opportunity to have a huge impact in rocket ship of a business with a real purpose! If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team lead on the PetLabCo. products to understand the context behind what you’re building
• Collaborate with tech lead and design technical solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs
• Ensure the platform is performant, secure, scalable, robust, reliable and of high quality with well-tested code in critical areas
• Plan and evolve the technical architecture of the platform with the teams
• Champion and share best practices to improve the team and code over time

What You Need

• 4+ years working as an engineer on frontend technology (React and JavaScript)
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript & TypeScript
• Strong proficiency in React.js
• Solid experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Experience with Tailwind CSS will be highly beneficial
• Experience with automated testing tools, i.e. Jest, Cypress, Playwright
• Experience building quality, and highly scalable front end applications
• Excellent appreciation for UI/UX design
• Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals

Our front-end technology stack

• JavaScript
• Next.js
• React.js
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• GraphQL
• AWS

Desirable

• Experience in Next.js
• Experience with CMS like Strapi
• Experience working with the eCommerce domain and mobile application architecture
• Experience with CRM systems and marketing automation, payment processing and customer engagement
• Experience with AWS Stack

Benefits

• Private Health Care through Vitality
• Generous Annual Leave - 28 days + public and bank holidays
• Flexible Working Hours – We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while travelling, or in the office
• Help@Hand – Employee Assistance Programme
• Royal London Pension Scheme – workplace pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave
• Nursery Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Generous Learning and development budget
• Puppy Therapy – with Paws in Work
• Free breakfast, fruits and snacks
• Working Environment – dogs are welcome
• Life Assurance – four times basic salary to beneficiaries
• Discount Vouchers & Gym Memberships
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Give Back Day – extra day off to volunteer plus £50 to charity
• Health Cash Benefit – health-related cashback

Diversity & Inclusion Statement

PetLab Co. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage all applications irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, marital status, and disability. We believe that diversity is at the heart of innovation, and we welcome passionate candidates from all backgrounds. Come join the family and see for yourself!