Front End Engineer

Primary Objectives of the Role

As a Front End Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and quality of front-end applications, bringing creative concepts to life with well-structured code. Collaborate within an agile team to build, test, and enhance features, driving innovation and best practices. Use modern front-end tools and frameworks to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Take ownership of front-end features and initiatives, ensuring they are well-designed, fully tested, and delivered to a high standard.
• Build and maintain front-end applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js, integrating with tools like Amplience, Figma, and Azure DevOps.
• Contribute to the evolution of our digital products by developing new features and functionality that meet high-quality standards.
• Apply strong attention to detail to produce reliable, maintainable code that aligns with engineering best practices.
• Drive quality and efficiency through high test coverage, automation, and rigorous code reviews.
• Collaborate with team members to continuously improve processes and push for innovative solutions.

This role is essential for delivering high-quality, user-friendly front-end applications that support our commitment to a modern, engaging digital experience.

Essential Skills

Collaboration

• Excellent communication
• A team player
• Open minded

Delivery

• Agile methodologies
• Effort estimation
• Software management
• Component library tools, such as Storybook
• Git and GitHub

Software Engineering

• JavaScript, ES6+, TypeScript, NodeJS
• Debugging
• Familiarity with modular JS patterns
• Unit testing and test automation (we use Jest and Playwright)
• ReactJS
• Data management: Hooks, Redux or similar
• CSS, Styled Components
• Semantic HTML
• Code quality management, linting
• Web Application Security (OWASP Top 10)
• Web accessibility

Desirable Skills

• Next.js
• Workflow automation
• Material UI, Emotion
• CI/CD configuration
• Containers, Docker
• Good understanding of application performance strategies

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