Senior Frontend Engineer - Lead React UI, London

AlphaSights; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSights in London is seeking highly talented software engineers to join a cross-functional team with product managers and designers, delivering real-world code for internal and external users. You will own the services your team manages and align development with AlphaSights engineering strategy while mentoring junior engineers.

If you are passionate about solving problems with code and want to work with exceptional colleagues in a high-performance environment, this role is a strong fit for

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM subject or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Experience in a mature Engineering team at similar level.
• Strong frontend expertise with React and modern frontend patterns.
• Proactive, self-driven with a track record of delivering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions: define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world's leading research platform.
• Ship working code: We primarily work with React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with Postgres on the backend, with some older services written in Ruby on Rails.
• Deploy and iterate: We release frequently to our customers, using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback in order to inform our next iteration.
• Build your competency: You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment. Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting: Carefully monitor our services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes.

Skills

Frontend engineering

React

Kotlin

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Education

STEM degree

Tools

CircleCI

Spinnaker

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

Kotlin

React

Job description

AlphaSights in London is seeking highly talented software engineers to join a cross-functional team with product managers and designers, delivering real-world code for internal and external users. You will own the services your team manages and align development with AlphaSights engineering strategy while mentoring junior engineers.

If you are passionate about solving problems with code and want to work with exceptional colleagues in a high-performance environment, this role is a strong fit for