Lead Front End Engineer
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Job Description
The challenge
Were about to rewrite our entire frontend applicationfrom scratch. This includes introducing a completely new design system and upgrading our frontend architecture. Its a major technical undertaking that needs leadership clarity of vision and technical excellence.
Were looking for someone to lead the charge: a senior frontend engineer who can architect a modern scalable and maintainable codebase mentor others and collaborate crossfunctionally to deliver a bestinclass product experience.
The role
As Lead Front End Engineer youll be responsible for designing and executing the complete rebuild of our frontend application. Youll work closely with product design and backend engineering teams to deliver a seamless performant and scalable user experience. Youll also play a critical role in shaping our design system driving frontend best practices and mentoring the wider engineering team.
This is a handson leadership roleone where youll write code make architectural decisions and guide the frontend direction of the company.
Heres what you will be responsible for:
- Owning the architecture and implementation of the new frontend application.
- Building a highperformance scalable and maintainable React Redux application.
- Designing and documenting a reusable accessible and elegant design system in collaboration with the design team.
- Leading frontend technical decision making establishing best practices and tooling.
- Mentoring and guiding other engineers in modern frontend development.
- Improving developer experience and tooling across the frontend codebase.
- Collaborating with product managers backend engineers and designers to ensure smooth and scalable delivery of new features.
- Driving performance improvements and usability enhancements across the UI.
- Supporting internal stakeholders (e.g. marketing customer success) with frontend requirements like analytics tracking and landing pages.
Qualifications :
Musthaves to be successful in this role:
- Deep knowledge of JavaScript HTML/CSS and TypeScript.
- Extensive experience with and state management using Redux (or similar).
- Demonstrated experience applying mobilefirst design principles to create responsive and accessible UIs.
- Proven track record in leading the architecture of modern frontend applications.
- Strong understanding of frontend performance and optimisation techniques.
- Experience building and maintaining a reusable component library or design system.
- Comfortable working in Agile teams conducting code reviews and participating in pair programming.
- Strong communication skillscapable of articulating technical decisions clearly and collaborating across functions.
- A desire to lead mentor and help others grow.
Nobody can do everything but heres a few related things were interested in:
- Familiarity with tools such as Storybook Figma CI/CD pipelines and GitHub workflows.
- Solid awareness of backend integration (experience with Go is a plus).
- Experience scaling frontend applications in a growing SaaS environment.
- Familiarity with AWS tooling relevant to frontend infrastructure.
- Exposure to accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
- Enthusiasm for clean welldocumented and testable code.
- A thoughtful approach to refactoring legacy systems.
Additional Information :
- Equity in the business in the form of shares You will own a meaningful part of the business through our employee shares & equity programme
- Unlimited Paid Time Off for you to take time to recharge.
- A wellness & professional development fund of 1000 per year including access to Wellhub formerly Gympass. We invest in our people and always encourage growth!
- Private health and Life insurance
- Highspec MacBook 200 for equipment setup
- Regular team lunches and social events from gokarting to mini golf to karaoke to rounders in the park
- X day one whole company day off every year so we can all switch off Slack and reset
- Flexible working flexible hours 2 days per week in our WeWork in Moorgate)
**Please note we cannot offer sponsorship to applicants (or transfer existing visas) at present**
Salary: up to 110000 bonus equity (dependent on experience)
Our Values
- Take ownership We keep our organisation simple valuing people over policies. We encourage ownership and decisionmaking.
- Better together We care about each other and go out of our way to help colleagues succeed. We value relationships and take a genuine interest.
- Transparent Our business is creating transparency in business relationships; so internally we are default share even when it feels uncomfortable.
- Glasshalffull This is about being real but still choosing to be optimistic. We celebrate wins and encourage each other to build forward.
- Be pioneers We are leaders not followers bold ambitious and cando. We dont start with whats possible we start with what we want to achieve then ask what has to be true
- Move fast This is our moment to make our mark on the world. So we work to ambitious deadlines launch fast and iterate always streamline and remain decisive amid huge uncertainty.
- Value learning We are all learning always. We take time to explain even if its quicker to do it ourselves.
- Always decent We are polite thankful and straightforward. Everyone is downtoearth informal and approachable.
- A players Working here should be stretching and exhilarating. We only hire and keep the best enquiring people that will keep us on our toes.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
