- UK based fully remote, need to be able to get to West Midlands twice per Quarter
- React application and components build and maintenance
- Brand new product build and take to market from R&D prototype
Front End Developer with strong JavaScript React design and build experience needed for a permanent fully remote role in the UK.
This is a UK based role which is fully remote however expectations to meetup twice per quarter in West Midlands - No overseas applications will be accepted.
Salary up to £45,000 + and excellent benefits package on offer
Key Responsibilities:
Talented mid-weight (3 - 5 years +) Front End Engineer with good React
experience to join a cross-functional development team.
This role requires an enthusiastic individual who likes a challenge, preferably experienced with start up mentality and taking a prototype R&D design and concept through production, build and release.
You will collaborate with a small team of back end developers and a lead front end engineer on a brand new React/NextJS application.
You will have experience as a Front End Engineer, building and maintaining React applications.
You should be passionate about modern web practices, be an enthusiastic team
contributor, enjoy building React components and have a love of beautiful user interfaces and interactions.
In short
- Collaborate closely with a small team of front end and back end engineers to produce modern, accessible user interfaces in React to a high standard
- Produce a variety of interfaces, from interactive visual charts, to pleasing touch driven UI and displaying complex data
- Translate UX/UI designs with an eye for detail
- Write robust unit tests and integration tests using TDD and contribute to E2E testing
- Leverage the power of NextJS to create features for a brand new application using a mixture of SSR and SG and traditional client side code
- Utilise MUI and other React libraries alongside companies own component library with a focus on efficiency and time to market for applications
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in Front End development with some knowledge of frameworks outside of the React ecosystem
- Get your hands dirty with some older and bespoke Front End technologies as needed
Required Skills
- Proven experience of development using React (other frameworks may be considered)
- Experience writing Typescript with an understanding of types and type safety
- Strong understanding of state management in React applications with experience of one of the following: Redux, MobX, Jotai, Apollo Cache
- A familiarity with GraphQL with some experience of a client such as Apollo. React Query or other libraries are also acceptable.
- Experience Jest and React Testing Library
Nice to have
- Experience with NextJS and understanding of SSR
- Knowledge of codegen practices for producing GraphQL queries and mutations
- Experience with Storybook
- Understanding of accessibility and its importance
- Optimization experience such as lazy loading, virtualization, and code splitting
- An understanding of back end technologies, e.g. databases, servers, APIs, security etc
This Front End Developer role based in the UK in a fully remote function is on offer with a permanent salary up to £45,000 + strong benefits package.
Please apply via link and send CV in ASAP as client are looking to interview and appoint in the next 2 weeks.