Performance-Focused Web Infrastructure Engineer

Currie & Brown; Selby; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech company based in the UK seeks a Web Infrastructure Engineer to enhance performance across their platform. You will lead initiatives on frontend and backend systems, utilizing expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript. Responsibilities include improving performance metrics and defining internal best practices that scale with the company. Offering a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for team off-site trips, this position is perfect for performance-driven engineers.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity in the company

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Pension contribution

Enhanced family leave

Team off-site trips

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript performance on client and server.
• Proven experience in designing internal API and service-layer architecture.
• Strong familiarity with performance tooling like Lighthouse and APM platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to improve frontend and backend performance.
• Use profiling to identify bottlenecks and memory leaks.
• Build metrics and performance dashboards for team accessibility.

Skills

JavaScript performance

TypeScript performance

Node.js performance

Frontend performance patterns

API design

Communication skills

Tools

Chrome DevTools

Node profiler

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

An innovative tech company based in the UK seeks a Web Infrastructure Engineer to enhance performance across their platform. You will lead initiatives on frontend and backend systems, utilizing expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript. Responsibilities include improving performance metrics and defining internal best practices that scale with the company. Offering a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for team off-site trips, this position is perfect for performance-driven engineers.