Principal Web Engineer

Redzone; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Web Engineer to lead in setting technical direction using agentic AI. This fully remote role, requiring a strong Web development background, offers an opportunity to impact the team significantly while working with the latest technologies.

Benefits

Health and well-being programs

Opportunity for growth and transformation

Collaborative culture

Flexible compensation packages

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Web Development experience, with at least 3+ years specifically in Vue.
• Strong knowledge of Vue 3 and Typescript, comfortable developing RESTful APIs.
• Experience with tools for building cross-platform apps like Electron and Capacitor.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance manufacturing workflows in the Redzone Web applications.
• Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest Web technologies.
• Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work to improve the system.

Skills

Vue 3

Typescript

RESTful APIs

Agile Development

Testable Code

Continuous Delivery

Agentic AI tools

Education

7+ years of Web Development

Tools

GitHub Actions

Electron

Node.js

Docker

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As a Principal Web Engineer you will play a key role in setting technical direction for our engineers and lead the way in a fast paced project using agentic AI to accelerate your delivery. Then, you’ll provide enablement to the whole team to multiply your impact through others.

This role is fully remote, but must be based in the UK. With full work authorization already in effect. No Visa sponsorship available.

What you will need:

Develop and enhance manufacturing workflows in the Redzone Web applications.

Complete delivery work committed during the sprint to achieve business goals.

Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest Web technologies.

Rely on feature flags to rapidly deploy and iterate on new features and lower the risk of delivering software to production.

Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work and contribute ideas to continuously improve the system.

Commit to the team to help the team and the wider business achieve our goals.

Job Description

As a Principal Web Engineer you will play a key role in setting technical direction for our engineers and lead the way in a fast paced project using agentic AI to accelerate your delivery. Then, you’ll provide enablement to the whole team to multiply your impact through others.

This role is fully remote, but must be based in the UK. With full work authorization already in effect. No Visa sponsorship available.

What you will need:

• Develop and enhance manufacturing workflows in the Redzone Web applications.

• Complete delivery work committed during the sprint to achieve business goals.

• Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest Web technologies.

• Rely on feature flags to rapidly deploy and iterate on new features and lower the risk of delivering software to production.

• Provide subject matter expertise during incidents to resolve customer issues quickly.

• Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work and contribute ideas to continuously improve the system.

• Commit to the team to help the team and the wider business achieve our goals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Web Development, including 3+ Years of Vue

Computer skills (must haves):

• Strong knowledge of Vue 3 and Typescript

• Experience with associated packages like Bun, Deno, or Nest.js

• CI/CD GitHub Actions

• API-first design using Open Api Spec (OAS)

• Comfortable developing RESTful APIs

• Writing Testable Code

• Trunk-Based Development & Continuous Delivery

• Demonstrated experience with tools to build cross platform Apps (Electron, Capacitor)

• Experience deploying Web apps on mobile or desktop platforms

• Demonstrated experience with agentic AI tools (Cursor, Github Copilot Workspace)

• Experience prompting agents with structured tasks

• Experience refactoring and debugging using agents

Nice to Have:

• Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) Systems Architectures

• Generating endpoints and models from OAS

• Comfortable developing server-side JavaScript with Node.js

• Launch Darkly Feature Flagging

• Docker

Other knowledge: Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript

Additional Information

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.

• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.

• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.

• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.

• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.

QAD Redzone helps to enable QAD’s vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants, and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals, creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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