Senior Front End Developer (React.JS Essential)

Oliver James Associates Ltd.; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Front End Engineer to join their Engineering team. This role offers the chance to work on the largest digital transformation project in company history, focusing on building a Single Digital Platform. Candidates should have strong React skills and experience with deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience building customer facing React apps is a must.
• Ability to run and own portals in production with troubleshooting skills.
• Experience writing tests and understanding of automation.

Responsibilities

• Building externally facing portal capabilities for customer interactions.
• Pairing with other engineers and contributing to team ceremonies.
• Writing unit and integration tests for platform stability.

Skills

React

Next.js

APIs

Automation Testing

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Front End Engineer to join our clients Engineering team, to help delivery of our digital roadmap, develop our people and capabilities, and support Engineering strategy to drive improvements across all teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, Our client is undergoing the largest digital transformation they have seen from a global perspective in their history and are focussed on building out our Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, but involving a significant .NET estate, use of Azure services and React frontend web applications.


Our Tech Stack:

• UI: Typescript, React.JS, Redux, rxjs, webpack
• API: .NET, REST, Minimal APIs, Azure Function Apps
• Platforms: Azure, Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Testing: Jasmine, vitest, Playwright

What you'll be doing:

• Building externally facing portal capabilities to allow our customers to complete all interactions with us online
• Pairing or mobbing with a team of engineers, product owners, UX designers and InfoSec colleagues
• Contributing to team ceremonies and planning sessions
• Writing unit tests, integration tests, using tools such as Playwright and adding automation to our pipelines, all helping us ensure platform stability and speed of change
• Supporting delivery objectives, life cycle management and technical debt reduction

What you'll bring:

• Experience building customer facing React apps - Experience in React in a must
• Experience of using Next.js
• Ability to run and own portals in production, understanding how to diagnose issues and providing fixes/improvements
• Proven experience building and working with deployment pipelines
• Experience writing tests and understanding how to automate as much testing as possible
• Ability to build and maintain APIs to expose data to the React app is desirable, but can be learned on the job