Frontend Developer

Senior Frontend Developer opportunity to join an award winning insurance business based in Gloucestershire, with other offices in London and Liverpool.

The role is mainly remote with a bi-weekly office day, unless you would like to come in more.

Reporting to the Head of IT, the Senior Frontend Developer is an essential part of the business. You will oversees the activities of the frontend developer team and work closely with the backend development team. The Senior Frontend Developer implements the user interface and engineers the experience of every site/software being put out by the business.

The Senior Frontend Developer also builds out patterns and abstractions that emphasize the efficiency of sites/software. In the execution of your duties, the Senior Frontend Developer makes the most of tools such as React and SASS, and makes sure that the business's sites/software are compatible with multiple browsers and multiple devices.

Responsibilities

The role will entail:

• Providing robust, innovative and elegant solutions to business goals/issues on our various software platforms.
• Utilising strong experience with React and software design patterns and best practice when writing your code.
• Utilising strong communication skills to liaise with the Project Management Team, Technical Architects, Backend Dev Team, Dev-Ops and Infrastructure in order to provide the best solutions and ensure they are shipped successfully.
• Ensuring all technical solutions fit the overall technical architecture and collaborating with the Technical Architect and backend dev team to confirm this is the case.
• Using expertise to help develop the technical architecture as part of the senior software delivery team.
• Understanding of security and architectural implications when planning and implementing solutions.
• Ability to turn your hand to other languages and tools as required when provided with training to suit.
• Ensuring the whole team is writing suitable tests to ensure code meets requirements and specification and is of good quality.
• Managing and, where required, designing the phases of a frontend development project and, with the help of the team and the wider business stakeholders, ensure they are implemented properly (going through key phases - requirements gathering, specification, solution design and architecting, development, testing, deployment, etc).
• Explaining key concepts to sometimes non-technical stakeholders, as well as your own team when designing and building a solution.
• Utilising theAtlassian platform for managing the team and your own development workload:
  • Building, running and managing sprints and ensuring tickets are up-to-date in JIRA.
  • Ensuring code is correctly committed to repositories using our VCS (git and Bitbucket).
  • Documenting applications, systems and process in code repos and wiki (Confluence)

The Developer must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of key coding technologies and associated development tools and practices.

• Minimum 3 years frontend development experience
• Strong experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Ember, Backbone,etc.
• Likewise with frontend toolsets, methodologies and technologies like SASS (and other CSS pre-processors), HTML5/CSS, AJAX, etc.
• Understanding and implementation of UI/UX principles and standards.
• Agile development methodologies (SCRUM/Sprints/Kanban)
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures
• Writing tests (ideally Cucumber/Gherkin)
• Issue tracking tools
• Git version control with Github/Bitbucket

• Degree or equivalent in a Computing course.
• Scrum-master experience
• CI & CD
• Experience in supporting software

If this sounds like it could be a good fit, don't hesitate, apply today.

To find out more about Computer Futures please visit

Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales