Senior Frontend Engineer
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Job Location:
Derbyshire - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Were looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join our agile product-aligned engineering teams. This is a senior individual contributor role with clear expectations around technical ownership engineering leadership and delivery at scale.
Youll be front-end focused playing a key role in shaping the customer experience across our MACH-based digital platform (Microservices API-first Cloud-Native Headless) which powers 70 websites and mobile applications across multiple Frasers Group brands. Beyond delivery you will act as a technical mentor for our wider front-end community and a key partner to our Design Product and Content teams.
This role goes beyond feature delivery. As a Senior Engineer youll influence technical direction raise engineering standards and help teams make better long-term decisions around performance quality and maintainability.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive front-end architecture decisions including component design state management and application structure.
- Contribute to and influence shared design systems and front-end standards used across brands and squads.
- Lead the design and implementation of complex front-end solutions using modern frameworks (primarily React NextJS and TypeScript).
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews mentoring and pairing; ensuring coding standards are kept while raising the capability of engineers around you.
- Act as a senior technical partner to Product Design and Content teamsshaping solutions from discovery through to delivery and providing technical support on how to use certain systems.
- Take ownership of critical customer journeys ensuring high standards of usability accessibility performance and resilience.
- Build consume and evolve GraphQL and REST APIs contributing to backend services where required.
- Champion engineering best practices: code quality testing strategy performance optimisation and security.
- Stay ahead of front-end and full-stack trends bringing informed pragmatic innovation into the platform.
- Stay active in the tech community attending conferences and bringing back new ideas and knowledge to the platform.
- Proactively identify technical risks platform constraints and opportunities for improvement e.g. CI/CD pipelines developer experience and delivery flow.
Qualifications :
Essential experience:
- Significant commercial experience as a Senior Front-End or Full-Stack Engineer in large-scale production environments.
- Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers and supporting their technical growth.
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript. Deep experience with React and NextJS (or equivalent modern front-end frameworks).
- Strong communication skills and experience building relationships with Design Product and Content teams.
- Strong understanding of web performance accessibility (WCAG) and responsive design.
- Experience working across the full software development lifecycle including testing CI/CD and automation.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience working in MACH / composable commerce architectures.
- Knowledge of Core Web Vitals and front-end performance monitoring.
- Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms & Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
- Event-driven or distributed system exposure.
- A strong DevOps mindset and comfortable working in containerised environments.
Additional Information :
Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:
Frasers Champion- Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have lived the Frasers Group values.
Retail Reconnect In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem all employees must understand our business product and customers. Each financial year head office employees will gain insights by spending one to two days in one of our stores or the warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work.
Fearless 1200 Fearless 1200 is our way of recognising our growth. Its bold ambitious and designed to reward colleagues across the business for living our values and delivering impact. Fearless 1200 links how we perform to how were rewarded check out the video link to find out more - Welfare
Frasers Fit Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best and fittest on the planet! We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free.
Retail Trust We know that its not just about physical health mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline wellness hub counselling and financial/legal support.
Whats next
Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter - this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate one or two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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