Senior Front-End Engineer

Description

• Work alongside the team to design, build, and maintain an efficient, reusable, and reliable codebase across the stack. • Collaborate with Product Managers and other disciplines to help translate requirements into technical solutions. • Partner with our Quality Experts to deliver automated tests, ensuring we have confidence in every feature we release. • Contribute to the team's success by fixing bugs, resolving incidents, and minimizing customer impact. • Help ensure code quality by sharing feedback with your peers via our code review process. • You'll get to immerse yourself in engineering projects. We want to give you a place where you'll learn from us and we'll learn from you through getting involved in the following: • - Being an expert in all things frontend; React / JavaScript, GraphQL, security / authentication, design systems, build system / pipeline. • - Improving developer experience by reducing toil e.g. local development set up, CI/CD improvements, test suite optimisation etc. Architect and deliver step changes to our innovative product within small and focused project teams • - Design, build and maintain an efficient, reusable and reliable codebase • - Ensure the quality and maintainability of our code base e.g. by writing test automation • - Work on all parts of our system landscape. Fix bugs, resolve incidents, and participate in our well paid on-call scheme (all within reasonable limits and using a self-organised rota) • - Translate technical language/concepts for non-technical individuals written and orally • - Coaching / mentoring and pairing with other engineers • - Formulate technical solutions from product requirements in collaboration with others to create a first class platform

Requirements

• You have extensive experience in building complex web applications or similar software. You have been using Docker and potentially also Kubernetes. • Demonstrable, and up-to-date knowledge of best practices and patterns when working in a large, scalable frontend codebase, and familiarity with CI setups • You have a solid understanding of relevant web technologies such as HTML, CSS, HTTP etc. The ability to critically review technical solutions and identify potential performance / design system / security / scalability issues • You are willing and able to work with different programming languages and technology stacks. You prefer delivering real features over tech stack sophistication. The main parts of our system landscape are a Ruby on Rails back end, a React/Typescript front end, a Node.js/Typescript back end, and some Python services. Everyone has preferences and strengths, but we expect you to be able to work in all parts after a while. • Excited and driven to solve challenging problems in a high performing agile culture • A strong ability to communicate complex technical problems to a wide range of audiences both written and verbal • Seeks justification for introducing technical complexity to ensure the value / benefits outweigh the cost. You evaluate when adopting a new technology or “best practice” if it will deliver tangible benefits vs. when it will simply swap one set of problems for different ones • Excellent understanding of Git, semantic HTML and CSS/SASS, using styled-components.

Benefits

• Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days and your birthday off • The longer you are with Immersive, the more holiday days you get, up to a maximum of 30 days after five years of service • Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, 7% matched pension, private healthcare plan and more • Career and learning development through the platform, a dedicated professional development fund and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund - which enables you to learn anything that’s not work! • Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours • Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours • We have a vibrant team culture with team events throughout the year. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to dungeons and dragons! • When you do visit the UK hub, getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike

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