Senior Front End Engineer - React

Description

• As a Senior Front-End Engineer, you won't just be writing code; you'll be a pivotal architect, owning the end-to-end delivery of high-quality, production-ready React single-page applications that power our cutting-edge solutions

• This role offers the unique opportunity to drive technical excellence by championing code quality, robust testing (Vitest, Cypress), and best practices in front-end architecture, performance, and accessibility

• You'll thrive in an Agile environment, contributing actively to workstreams, while also building modular, reusable components with Storybook and integrating with diverse 3rd party systems

• Beyond technical contributions, you'll play a key role in shaping our team, mentoring junior developers, and confidently collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with hands-on React development

• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS), and TypeScript (as a preprocessor for JavaScript ES6+), adhering to industry coding standards

• Proficient in state management with React Query

• Solid understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser/device compatibility, and performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security, and usability best practices

• Experience with modern front-end build tools (e.g., Vite) and component development (Storybook)

• Commercial experience with SPA solutions, ideally for administrative CMS platforms, and integrating with 3rd party systems

• Extensive experience with unit, E2E, and regression testing (Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress)

• Experience with Jest is also valuable

• Commercial experience using Git for Continuous Integration in large development teams

• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Kanban and/or Scrum/sprint planning, story point estimation, refinement, retrospectives, demos)

• Excellent communication skills, capable of interacting directly with teams and stakeholders

• Experience mentoring junior team members

• Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks

Benefits

• enhanced pension

• life assurance

• income protection

• private healthcare

• Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works

• Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym

• Generous Leave - 27 days oliday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave

• Annual bonus - when Satalia does well, we all do well

• Impactful projects - focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change

• People oriented culture - wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person

• Transparent and open culture - you will be heard

• Development - focus on bringing the best out of each other

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