Staff Front End Engineer

Scarlet; Brentford; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the AI video technology sector seeks a Staff Front End Engineer to join their innovative team. You will play a vital role in shaping their platform, developing robust front-end architectures, and enjoying benefits like flexible work and generous leave policies.

Benefits

Quarterly international team offsite

Flexible work policy

Five weeks paid annual leave

Company laptop provided

Mindfulness sessions

Complimentary breakfast and weekly lunch

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience developing robust frontends.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Deep understanding of ReactJS & Redux.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural discussions for frontend applications.
• Deliver a robust architecture to handle high user loads.
• Foster a quality culture within the engineering team.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

ReactJS

CSS

WebRTC

Testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest)

Job description

Natter’s conversational AI platform allows tens of thousands of users to simultaneously share ideas and feedback in real-time video conversations, maximizing participation and facilitating deeply-human responses. Millions of qualitative comments from these dialogues are instantly analyzed and summarized into insights and recommendations that help Leaders make the strategic decisions required to support and inspire outdated, homogenous workforces.

️ Natter harnesses the power of AI and video to give everyone a voice.

Built by a team of ex-Uber, WeWork and Amazon builders, Natter has selectively hired a team of exited founders, specialist domain experts and SaaS unicorn founding team members. They are now looking for their final Seed-stage team hire: a Staff Front End Engineer.

Natter is already being used by some of the world’s largest companies, ranging from big four consultancies like PwC, institutional financial services providers like Legal and General, to technology innovators like Miro.

Natter’s conversational AI platform allows tens of thousands of users to simultaneously share ideas and feedback through real-time video conversations. Its uniquely scalable tech allows anyone with a smartphone to, literally, have a say on the most important decisions - ranging from workplace strategy to new product offerings.

Remote (EU) (GMT +- 3 hours)

Staff FE Engineer Responsibilities

As a Staff FE Engineer at Natter, you’ll:

• You'll be stepping into a role that offers not only technical challenges but also unparalleled ownership and autonomy to shape the innovative Natter platform.
• You will assume a pivotal role in the company’s Engineering team. Having achieved a lot of initial traction with enterprise-level clients, the team is now at a critical juncture as they look to scale their platform further.
• Serving clients with workforces numbering tens of thousands of users, there’s a need to deliver a robust and scalable architecture to cope with high levels of concurrent users. This role suits someone interested in developing new functionality at the cutting edge of AI innovation.
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead and contribute to architectural discussions for the frontend portion of our application.
• Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar.
• Foster a culture of quality within your collective. Proactively championing measures to test work, and gets buy-in from stakeholders when this is not appreciated.
  
  

What you’ll be using:

We Rely Heavily On The Following Tools And Technologies

• React & Typescript to write our frontend application code
• Playwright for our end-to-end tests
• Sentry for metrics & monitoring
• Jest, Vitest & React Testing Library for our unit tests
• AWS for our production and staging environments
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have 5+ years' experience developing robust frontends for a Production environment
• A strong proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript, semantic HTML & CSS
• A deep understanding of ReactJS & Redux
• You have experience using WebRTC
• Experience using Sentry or similar app monitoring / telemetry platform
• Experience with Jest or Vitest testing frameworks
• You have an ability to see through conflicting or unclear priorities. Prioritise them, focus and act decisively with the overall context of the business in mind.
• You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team resolve that ambiguity.
• You have a track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products
  
  

Desirable

• Previous experience developing high-performant, high-load frontend applications
• Experience building & maintaining component libraries
• Experience with functional programming
• Proficient with cross-browser testing & compatibility
• Experience in and enjoyment of early stage/startup environments
  
  

What’s In It For You

️ Quarterly international team offsite

Remote & flexible work policy

️ Five weeks paid annual leave

Company laptop and supporting tech as necessary

Mindfulness/meditation sessions for all employees

Complimentary daily breakfast and weekly lunch provided In office

Dedicated, private office space in Aldwych, London

The application journey has 4 key steps

Our interview process involves four main stages after an informal recruiter call:

• 30 min screening interview
• Offline coding exercise / system design & live review
• Introduction to engineering leadership team
• Final stage 30 min chat with the CEO
  
  

This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions or want to talk through reasonable adjustments ahead of or during application please us at any point on [e-mail]

Please also use that email to let us know if there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason.