Frontend Engineer - Java & Open Source (Private & FS)

Version 1; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

As a Front-End Developer, you'll collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Technical Architects, UX/UI Designers and other team members to understand business requirements and drive the solution design and development of our digital products. Your role involves ensuring that the code aligns with these requirements and adheres to our architectural and front-end coding standards. Performance optimisation is key, and you'll employ best practices to enhance our applications. Additionally, you'll stay proactive by suggesting upgrades and updates to maintain modern security standards and adhere to evolving best practices in development. Your contributions extend beyond individual projects; you'll help enrich our shared component libraries by crafting modular and reusable components. Furthermore, as a valued member of our team, you'll provide mentorship to junior members and actively share your expertise across the wider team.

Responsibilities

• Experience working closely with key stakeholders across the engineering team, including Architects, Product Owners and UX designers understanding and demonstrating how written requirements translate into a technical solution.
• Develop interfaces for web and mobile applications and develop high-quality, efficient, reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Collaborate with other team members to formulate and articulate end-to-end architecture and (non-) functional design
• Responsible to take ownership of the Frontend digital and software platform
• Ensure the use of Version 1’s’s Agile process and framework
• Instil champion best practices within the team, including TDD, code reviews and pair programming
• Mentor and bring on junior members of the team.
• Design flexible and configurable software components
• Produce well designed, testable, maintainable, secure and efficient code

Qualifications

• You will have an extensive background in front-end development with significant experience working with TypeScript and React. Any further experience with Next.js/Angular/Vue.js is beneficial
• Experience with mobile development frameworks like React Native is beneficial.
• Experience with GraphQL, preferably using Apollo Client with React for efficient data fetching and state management.
• Experience in Unit Testing with Jest
• Continuous Integration experience (Docker)
• A passion for coding and keeping up to date with new technologies frameworks and techniques
• Extensive experience in an Agile environment
• Exceptional communication skills to interact with clients and onsite and near-shore development teams
• Ability to prioritise and handle several tasks at once with multiple deadlines will be important
• Experience in back-end integration and any experience with backend technologies like Java/Python is an advantage.