Founding Frontend Engineer

Cerve; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

About Cerve

At Cerve, our mission is to power a digitally-enabled global food system. We believe that creating a sustainable and resilient food system hinges on making data accessible and transparent. By democratising data and fostering connectivity, we empower organisations to build solutions that reduce waste, improve food security, drive growth and optimise operational efficiency.

About the role

As a Founding Frontend Engineer at Cerve, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, maintaining and securing our products to drive connectivity in the food industry.

In collaboration with the Engineering and Product team, you will design and build our core products. This role involves coding, setting development standards, and ensuring solutions are delightful to use, reliable, performant and scalable.

What you'll do

As our Founding Frontend Engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping and delivering exceptional user experiences while contributing to the development of our core systems and products:

1. Interactive UI Development: Build and produce designs incorporating animations, transitions, and other interactive elements to create engaging and delightful user interfaces.
2. Design System Ownership: Work on the frontend design system that supports high-visibility mission-critical projects.
3. Code Quality & Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices and setting a high-quality codebase standard.
4. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other key stakeholders to define, design, and deliver new features that align with product and customer needs.
5. Leadership & Mentorship: Own and lead projects, support other frontend engineers, advocate for technical and process improvements, mentor junior engineers, and follow best practices to enhance system reliability and performance.

You are

1. Entrepreneurial: Thriving in a fast-paced startup environment. You're proactive, self-motivated, and have a can-do attitude that gets projects done.
2. Systemic Thinker: You can see the bigger picture while keeping an eye on the details, ensuring every element works harmoniously.
3. Autonomous: You are comfortable in small teams where you are expected to take full ownership of your projects, driving them from concept to completion.
4. Collaborative: You're eager to grow alongside us, learning from success and setbacks as we build the platform.
5. Thirst for Knowledge: You're passionate about your craft, always seeking new knowledge while sharing your best practices with the team.
6. Thriving in Ambiguity: Uncertainty motivates you. You embrace complex challenges that often raise more questions than answers.

You have

1. At least 6 years of engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in modern frontend development methodologies and frameworks such as React, Svelte, Vue, or similar.
2. Strong programming skills, including JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
3. Working experience with RESTful API and GraphQL.
4. A keen attention to detail, with an eye for delivering high-quality UX.
5. A thorough understanding of engineering best practices, from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews.
6. Familiarity with design tools like Figma.

[+] Familiarity with Backend technologies: i.e. Go, Python and C#

We offer

1. Salary: Competitive
2. Bonus: Potential of company-wide annual payment
3. Flexible Vacation: 25 days, Bank holidays and Special days
4. Flexible hours: Choose your working hours around core hours (10:30 - 16:30)
5. Stock Option: Become an owner of Cerve with significant wealth creation potential
6. Pension: Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme
7. Hybrid Workspace: Travel to the R&D Hub in Gothenburg
8. Best Tech and Equipment: Macbook and the best equipment you need to excel

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and valued. We believe that diversity of thought and experience is essential to our success, and we are particularly interested in candidates who can bring a different perspective to our team, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or career status.