Senior UI Developer Based West Yorkshire

We seek a Senior UI Developer to join our dynamic UI development team responsible for building and maintaining our global largescale eCommerce platform. This role requires strong expertise in React and Apollo Client focusing on delivering responsive highperformance user interfaces for a seamless customer experience.

As a Senior UI Developer you will work in a crossfunctional team led by a fulltime Product Owner. You will be supported by UX Designers backend developers and the wider UI developer team to build scalable and visually stunning user interfaces that will power our online storefront.

Specifically you will work on personalisation recommendations merchandising and marketing content delivery to drive increased conversations and higher site revenues.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of user interfaces using React and related libraries to create highly interactive userfriendly and visually appealing applications.
• Work closely with product owners UX/UI designers and backend engineers to transform business requirements into technical solutions ensuring a seamless and cohesive ecommerce experience.
• Focus on optimizing the performance of the UI to ensure fast load times smooth navigation and a reactive experience across devices. This includes updating and refactoring our extensive caching solution which is provided by Akamai at the front door but also relies on several layers of caching technologies deeper in the application stack.
• Implement data fetching and state management through Apollo Client and integrate the UI with RESTful and GraphQL APIs built with and Apollo Server.
• Advocate for and follow best practices for software development including clean maintainable code automated testing and code reviews.
• Mentor junior and midlevel developers offering guidance on React development frontend architecture and best practices.
• Works with backend engineers to integrate frontend with backend services and help shape the architecture and performance of the entire application stack.
• Keep uptodate with the latest developments in frontend technologies especially within the React ecosystem and eCommerce trends.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a FrontEnd or UI Developer with handson React experience. Ideally you will have held a senior position previously or you can demonstrate why you should step up to the Senior level.
• You will be able to demonstrate your competency in all of these technologies and tools ReactJS TypeScript Loadable Components Jest Styled Components Storybook GraphQL and Apollo (client/server) and Akamai caching. To stress our key needs we will be looking for
• Strong understanding of React and its ecosystem.
• Experience with Apollo Client and GraphQL queries mutation handling and state management.
• Solid knowledge of and how to integrate the frontend with backend services.
• Expertise in HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript (ES6.
• Experience with responsive design
• Experience with Gitlab and their GitFlow version control process.
• Ability to collaborate with UX/UI designers and translate Figma and Storybook prototypes into functional highquality user interfaces.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills focusing on usercentric solutions.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks (Jest in particular). We also do A/B testing via Adobe Target.
• Proficient in optimizing UI performance for largescale applications with experience implementing lazy loading code splitting and other advanced optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with the challenges of building and scaling eCommerce platforms is a plus.
• Previous experience in an Agile/Scrum development environment.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to work in partnership and across teams. We rely on frequent show and tells of working Strong leadership qualities including the ability to mentor junior developers and advocate for best practices in frontend development.
• Attention to detail with a passion for creating beautiful functional and usercentric designs.
• Ability to manage time and prioritize tasks effectively in a fastpaced environment.

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills.

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