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: Software Development 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) Skills & Experience The Developer must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of key coding technologies and associated development tools and practices. Required 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 Desired 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
01/10/2021
Full time
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: Software Development 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) Skills & Experience The Developer must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of key coding technologies and associated development tools and practices. Required 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 Desired 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
Angular / React / Vue / C# / .NET We are looking for quality candidates to join one of our clients on their journey to become the next Fintech company to reach a revenue of $100 Million, and this ambitious goal is one that exemplifies the kind of drive that is fuelling your potential future colleagues. They focus on building world-class software that can add real value to their growing list of thousands of clients. In order to reach this monumental milestone and to continue the great work they've already started our client needs to hire the best talent possible, which means hiring candidates with a host of backgrounds, specialisations and skills. At present, the company handles over 100k users on its platform every month, as well as more than $2 Trillion in invoice transactions. If you like the sound of this great company, and want to join one of their dedicated 'squads', then check out the skills and responsibilities section below to see if you're the perfect fit! Responsibilities: - Deliver the highest-quality features, as well as improving existing functionality. - Be responsible for the full software lifecycle. - Collaborate effectively with colleagues both at home and abroad. - Support the implementation of security features and design principles. - Assist in the development of junior developers. - Bring passion and critical thinking to the role. Key Skills: - Prior commercial experience building restful APIs with database interaction in a C#/.NET stack. - Proven experience working with a frontend technology such as Angular/React/Vue/etc. - Experience leading and mentoring Agile development teams throughout the full SDLC. - Effective communication, being able to seamlessly work alongside colleagues. - You must have a passion for development, enjoy working in small teams, and have an interest in the Fintech sector. Benefits: - 25 days holiday + Bank holidays. - Remote and in-office working. - Full access to self-learning opportunities. - A competitive salary - Healthcare plan When submitting your application to Colossus Associates, please ensure you have your correct phone number and email address so we can contact you asap regarding your application. For confidentiality purposes, please remove any reference contact phone number's and email address details from your CV.
09/09/2021
Full time
Angular / React / Vue / C# / .NET We are looking for quality candidates to join one of our clients on their journey to become the next Fintech company to reach a revenue of $100 Million, and this ambitious goal is one that exemplifies the kind of drive that is fuelling your potential future colleagues. They focus on building world-class software that can add real value to their growing list of thousands of clients. In order to reach this monumental milestone and to continue the great work they've already started our client needs to hire the best talent possible, which means hiring candidates with a host of backgrounds, specialisations and skills. At present, the company handles over 100k users on its platform every month, as well as more than $2 Trillion in invoice transactions. If you like the sound of this great company, and want to join one of their dedicated 'squads', then check out the skills and responsibilities section below to see if you're the perfect fit! Responsibilities: - Deliver the highest-quality features, as well as improving existing functionality. - Be responsible for the full software lifecycle. - Collaborate effectively with colleagues both at home and abroad. - Support the implementation of security features and design principles. - Assist in the development of junior developers. - Bring passion and critical thinking to the role. Key Skills: - Prior commercial experience building restful APIs with database interaction in a C#/.NET stack. - Proven experience working with a frontend technology such as Angular/React/Vue/etc. - Experience leading and mentoring Agile development teams throughout the full SDLC. - Effective communication, being able to seamlessly work alongside colleagues. - You must have a passion for development, enjoy working in small teams, and have an interest in the Fintech sector. Benefits: - 25 days holiday + Bank holidays. - Remote and in-office working. - Full access to self-learning opportunities. - A competitive salary - Healthcare plan When submitting your application to Colossus Associates, please ensure you have your correct phone number and email address so we can contact you asap regarding your application. For confidentiality purposes, please remove any reference contact phone number's and email address details from your CV.
Big Blue Door is a creative digital development and hosting agency with substantial experience in developing and maintaining high quality, high impact websites and digital products in complex, multi-stakeholder environments in an Agile manner. We specialise in working with public and third sector organisations, both large and small, utilising Drupal as our preferred Content Management Framework, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as our preferred hosting partner. Our client base is primarily public sector organisations, including Government departments, Local Councils, NHS, and Education bodies, with both public-facing websites and Intranets. The work we undertake is very varied, and includes a number of backend integrations with third-party APIs. We manage projects through the entirety of the SDLC, from discovery, research, and creative design, through to the build phase, and finally through to training, support, ongoing maintenance, and hosting. We are Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners , but also have hosting spread across other providers including Azure and Google Cloud Platform. About the role: We're looking for an experienced frontend developer to join our team, and help deliver projects working closely with our head of creative. This role will also include mentoring more junior frontend members of the team (remotely and in-person). This role will be split across new (greenfield) projects and legacy client work, with some clients still operating on Drupal 7. All of our new builds are in Drupal 8/9. Some of our newer projects are headless (we use React) and we expect this trend to continue. As an agency with multiple concurrent work strands across different technologies and frameworks, we expect our developers to work across a number of projects during a normal working week. Essential skills: Broad experience of working with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Next, Gatsby and VueJS. Three or more years experience with version control systems (preferably Git) and team workflows. Worked with and consumed a good range of third party APIs. CSS Preprocessing - SASS/SCSS and build tools (e.g. Compass / Node / Yarn). Use and understanding of task runners - Gulp and Grunt. Comfortable using the command line and SSH. Experience with Adobe suite (Photoshop / Illustrator / Fireworks) or similar (Sketch) - in taking design files and applying them to HTML/CSS. Design skills not required. Ability to produce and review high quality, clean code. Ability to support and mentor other team members Strong teamwork and communication skills. Comfortable working on existing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage work priorities effectively and autonomously. The ability to work on-site in our London Bridge office on occasion, either as full-time (M-F) or as part-time (2-3 days in the office, otherwise remote). Please also see the note at the top of this specification relating to COVID-19. Fluent English and excellent communication skills as part of the role may be client-facing Desirable skills: Five or more years demonstrable experience of building Drupal (7 or 8) production websites (we may ask for code samples), including coding custom modules, extending contrib, and theme building. Drupal certifications (Acquia or otherwise). Frontend: Experience working with Graphql Experience with frontend testing libraries such as Jasmine, Mocha, Jest, etc. Experience with Storybook or other component library software Backend / DevOps: Demonstrable experience custom coding on other PHP CMSs (OOP or procedural). Symfony or Python/Django experience may be beneficial. Sysadmin experience configuring LAMP/LEMP stack. Experience with configuring CI software, such as Jenkins. Experience of designing and consuming APIs and Web Services (SOAP / REST), including knowledge of security concerns and mitigations. Ability to write or configure custom automation tasks with scripting tools, e.g. Bash/Perl/Python. Experience configuring virtualisation for development processes, e.g. Docker/Vagrant. Other skills: Experience of building to Accessibility Standards, particularly WAI / WCAG. Understanding of SOA, experience with Web Services (XMLRPC / JSON / SOAP / REST / GraphQL). - Flexible working Macbook Pro 28 days annual leave [inclusive of bank holidays, increasing by one day every year (up to ten years)] 'Open fridge' policy including free lunch and wine/beer Season ticket loan scheme Interesting and varied projects! Professional development training, including annual week in Europe for DrupalCon (or similar) Friendly and supportive environment Technical Test Video Call with Managing Partners / Tech Lead Offer! Drupal, React, Angular, Next, Vue.jsDrupal, React, Angular, Next, Vue.js, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Git, Gulp, PHP, Symfony, Python, Django, Jenkins, SOAP, REST, Bash, Perl, Docker, GraphQL, Jasmine, Mocha, Jest, Storybook
17/03/2021
Full time
Big Blue Door is a creative digital development and hosting agency with substantial experience in developing and maintaining high quality, high impact websites and digital products in complex, multi-stakeholder environments in an Agile manner. We specialise in working with public and third sector organisations, both large and small, utilising Drupal as our preferred Content Management Framework, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as our preferred hosting partner. Our client base is primarily public sector organisations, including Government departments, Local Councils, NHS, and Education bodies, with both public-facing websites and Intranets. The work we undertake is very varied, and includes a number of backend integrations with third-party APIs. We manage projects through the entirety of the SDLC, from discovery, research, and creative design, through to the build phase, and finally through to training, support, ongoing maintenance, and hosting. We are Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners , but also have hosting spread across other providers including Azure and Google Cloud Platform. About the role: We're looking for an experienced frontend developer to join our team, and help deliver projects working closely with our head of creative. This role will also include mentoring more junior frontend members of the team (remotely and in-person). This role will be split across new (greenfield) projects and legacy client work, with some clients still operating on Drupal 7. All of our new builds are in Drupal 8/9. Some of our newer projects are headless (we use React) and we expect this trend to continue. As an agency with multiple concurrent work strands across different technologies and frameworks, we expect our developers to work across a number of projects during a normal working week. Essential skills: Broad experience of working with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Next, Gatsby and VueJS. Three or more years experience with version control systems (preferably Git) and team workflows. Worked with and consumed a good range of third party APIs. CSS Preprocessing - SASS/SCSS and build tools (e.g. Compass / Node / Yarn). Use and understanding of task runners - Gulp and Grunt. Comfortable using the command line and SSH. Experience with Adobe suite (Photoshop / Illustrator / Fireworks) or similar (Sketch) - in taking design files and applying them to HTML/CSS. Design skills not required. Ability to produce and review high quality, clean code. Ability to support and mentor other team members Strong teamwork and communication skills. Comfortable working on existing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage work priorities effectively and autonomously. The ability to work on-site in our London Bridge office on occasion, either as full-time (M-F) or as part-time (2-3 days in the office, otherwise remote). Please also see the note at the top of this specification relating to COVID-19. Fluent English and excellent communication skills as part of the role may be client-facing Desirable skills: Five or more years demonstrable experience of building Drupal (7 or 8) production websites (we may ask for code samples), including coding custom modules, extending contrib, and theme building. Drupal certifications (Acquia or otherwise). Frontend: Experience working with Graphql Experience with frontend testing libraries such as Jasmine, Mocha, Jest, etc. Experience with Storybook or other component library software Backend / DevOps: Demonstrable experience custom coding on other PHP CMSs (OOP or procedural). Symfony or Python/Django experience may be beneficial. Sysadmin experience configuring LAMP/LEMP stack. Experience with configuring CI software, such as Jenkins. Experience of designing and consuming APIs and Web Services (SOAP / REST), including knowledge of security concerns and mitigations. Ability to write or configure custom automation tasks with scripting tools, e.g. Bash/Perl/Python. Experience configuring virtualisation for development processes, e.g. Docker/Vagrant. Other skills: Experience of building to Accessibility Standards, particularly WAI / WCAG. Understanding of SOA, experience with Web Services (XMLRPC / JSON / SOAP / REST / GraphQL). - Flexible working Macbook Pro 28 days annual leave [inclusive of bank holidays, increasing by one day every year (up to ten years)] 'Open fridge' policy including free lunch and wine/beer Season ticket loan scheme Interesting and varied projects! Professional development training, including annual week in Europe for DrupalCon (or similar) Friendly and supportive environment Technical Test Video Call with Managing Partners / Tech Lead Offer! Drupal, React, Angular, Next, Vue.jsDrupal, React, Angular, Next, Vue.js, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Git, Gulp, PHP, Symfony, Python, Django, Jenkins, SOAP, REST, Bash, Perl, Docker, GraphQL, Jasmine, Mocha, Jest, Storybook
The role With over 8 million members, VoucherCodes is one of the UK's largest money-saving websites. Partnered with big brands like ASOS, Nike, Argos, Expedia and Pizza Express, we receive over 8 million visits per month. Right now, we're looking for a Senior UI Engineer to work as part of our Engineering team in London. You would be joining a team of 20+ engineers across mobile, web, data and platform. We look for engineers who have excellent attention to detail and care about the features they implement. You have extensive user interface development experience and know what it takes to make a website scale and perform at a lightning-fast speed. You have attention to detail and care about excellent user experience. You take a keen interest in researching, experimenting and implementing new technologies. Our current front-end tech stack consists mostly of TypeScript, Vue, Nuxt, GraphQL, Tailwind, React, Babel and Webpack for client-side applications, and we use the latest standards like ES2020 and CSS3. To ensure the quality of our codebases, we use code quality tools such as ESlint and Prettier, and we test our front-end code using Jest, Jasmine and Karma. We are also extensive users of Docker and Kubernetes. What we need from you At least 5 years of relevant development experience Strong Javascript and CSS skills Previous experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular Prior basic experience with Node.js and isomorphic applications Experience of continuous integration, unit testing tools and related practices Knowledge of how the browser functions and how to get the most out of it Understanding of page speed metrics and performance tools Good cross-team communication skills Understanding of Agile Scrum software development lifecycle Previous experience with Vue, Nuxt and TypeScript is desirable What you'll be doing Building new product experiences that our users will find simple and delightful to use Iterate upon and improve existing website functionality and features Complete the migration of our website to our new frontend stack Using the latest tools and techniques to monitor and improve site speed and performance Evolve the architecture of our platforms, updating and expanding our technology stack Directly contributing to improving our developer experience Using your skills and experience to support and mentor other engineers - A culture that pushes you to be your best self Two uninterrupted hours a week dedicated to your personal development The flexibility to get that perfect work/life balance More free food than you can ask for. Seriously. Zumba, boxing, yoga and football to work off all those free snacks Quarterly socials to let your hair down with your team Annual company retreat for a well deserved, long weekend of relaxation Private healthcare, pension, travel loan, cycle scheme, gym scheme Oh, not to mention our competitive salary, great bonus scheme and a tonne of other cool stuff We follow a 2 step process: 1. 30-minute phone or video call with the Hiring Manager 2. A 2 and a half hour remote video interview, made up of 3 segments with breaks in between: technical (Q&A and live coding exercise) team and collaboration communication and culture fit JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, React, AngularJavaScript, Typescript, Vue.js, Nuxt, CSS3, Node.js, GraphQL, Jest, Webpack, Storybook
17/03/2021
Full time
The role With over 8 million members, VoucherCodes is one of the UK's largest money-saving websites. Partnered with big brands like ASOS, Nike, Argos, Expedia and Pizza Express, we receive over 8 million visits per month. Right now, we're looking for a Senior UI Engineer to work as part of our Engineering team in London. You would be joining a team of 20+ engineers across mobile, web, data and platform. We look for engineers who have excellent attention to detail and care about the features they implement. You have extensive user interface development experience and know what it takes to make a website scale and perform at a lightning-fast speed. You have attention to detail and care about excellent user experience. You take a keen interest in researching, experimenting and implementing new technologies. Our current front-end tech stack consists mostly of TypeScript, Vue, Nuxt, GraphQL, Tailwind, React, Babel and Webpack for client-side applications, and we use the latest standards like ES2020 and CSS3. To ensure the quality of our codebases, we use code quality tools such as ESlint and Prettier, and we test our front-end code using Jest, Jasmine and Karma. We are also extensive users of Docker and Kubernetes. What we need from you At least 5 years of relevant development experience Strong Javascript and CSS skills Previous experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular Prior basic experience with Node.js and isomorphic applications Experience of continuous integration, unit testing tools and related practices Knowledge of how the browser functions and how to get the most out of it Understanding of page speed metrics and performance tools Good cross-team communication skills Understanding of Agile Scrum software development lifecycle Previous experience with Vue, Nuxt and TypeScript is desirable What you'll be doing Building new product experiences that our users will find simple and delightful to use Iterate upon and improve existing website functionality and features Complete the migration of our website to our new frontend stack Using the latest tools and techniques to monitor and improve site speed and performance Evolve the architecture of our platforms, updating and expanding our technology stack Directly contributing to improving our developer experience Using your skills and experience to support and mentor other engineers - A culture that pushes you to be your best self Two uninterrupted hours a week dedicated to your personal development The flexibility to get that perfect work/life balance More free food than you can ask for. Seriously. Zumba, boxing, yoga and football to work off all those free snacks Quarterly socials to let your hair down with your team Annual company retreat for a well deserved, long weekend of relaxation Private healthcare, pension, travel loan, cycle scheme, gym scheme Oh, not to mention our competitive salary, great bonus scheme and a tonne of other cool stuff We follow a 2 step process: 1. 30-minute phone or video call with the Hiring Manager 2. A 2 and a half hour remote video interview, made up of 3 segments with breaks in between: technical (Q&A and live coding exercise) team and collaboration communication and culture fit JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, React, AngularJavaScript, Typescript, Vue.js, Nuxt, CSS3, Node.js, GraphQL, Jest, Webpack, Storybook
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