Senior Front End Engineer

Origin Digital; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

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To quickly understand requirements, propose solutions, follow best practices, participate in code reviews and lead on some sprints. You will innovate during your day-to-day work and gather and share knowledge with more junior members of the team. You will provide input and influence discussions around best practices and new technologies helping the team to develop an effective basis for future developments. You will need to be able to pro-actively identify gaps in the system, support the existing infrastructure and effectively prioritize whilst maintaining a high level of interaction with the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Provide design and implement functional requirements
• Build efficient, scalable front-end features in Java and support more junior members of the team
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code
• Optimize front-end performance
• Manage testing and bug fixes
• Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements
• Prepare technical documentation

Skills and Experience:

• Strong Technical Angular Engineer that can demonstrate the delivery of high quality, well-tested solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of Typescript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and SASS
• High level and recent experience of Angular 2+ using rxjs and ngrx
• Excellent knowledge of TypeScript and ES6+ features
• Excellent knowledge and experience writing unit tests with Karma/Jest
• Experience Object Oriented analysis and design using common patterns
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop and coach more junior members of the team
• Experience of Ionic/Capacitor/Cordova desirable