Senior Frontend Engineer

NextGenEnergyJobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs is seeking a senior frontend engineer to lead the flexibility team's frontend capability in the UK. You will own a range of customer journeys for onboarding, control, and analysis of low carbon tech, and build internal interfaces for stakeholders and experiments.

You will collaborate with our design team to integrate the Coral design system, drive accessibility and performance, and work closely with product managers on discovery and delivery of new opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend experience with the relevant stack.
• Ability to turn problems into strong solutions rather than strict guidelines.
• Proven ownership of the development cycle from requirements through deployment and monitoring.
• Capability to tackle large-scale tasks independently.
• Empathetic collaboration and delegation with teammates.
• Ability to build accessible websites meeting strong guidelines.
• Experience delivering scalable, high-traffic web experiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as the frontend engineer for the flexibility team, establishing capability and setting direction.
• Build and own diverse customer journeys for onboarding, control, and analysis of low carbon tech.
• Create internal interfaces for stakeholders and experimental prototypes.
• Collaborate with mobile teams by providing WebViews for evolving journeys.
• Work with design to integrate Coral design system into products.
• Engage in product discovery with Product Manager and organizational stakeholders.
• Develop highly reusable interfaces for rapid opportunities.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Web accessibility

Performance optimization

Collaboration

Design system integration

Tools

Coral design system

Job description

We're making energy fair, clean, and simple for all using technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as the flexibility team’s first frontend engineer, establish the team’s frontend capability, lead the team’s frontend technical direction and represent the team to the cross-team community of frontend engineers
• Build and own a diverse range of customer-facing user journeys, enabling customers to onboard, control, and analyse their low carbon tech
• Build and own internal-facing interfaces for stakeholder-collaborators and experimental prototypes
• Interface with established mobile teams by providing WebViews for emerging mobile customer journeys
• Collaborate with our internal design team to integrate our designs into the wider Octopus design system ‘Coral’
• Carry out product discovery by working closely with our Product Manager and stakeholders from across the organisation
• Build highly reusable interfaces that enable rapid response to new opportunities

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with our stack (listed below)
• Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
• Confidence owning the development cycle (request, requirements gathering, technical proposal, technical execution, deployment and monitoring.)
• Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually
• An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
• The ability to develop websites that meet strong accessibility guidelines
• Experience building scalable, performant sites that handle high levels of traffic well