Front End Software Developer

This exciting role offers a great opportunity for a creative and talented front end developer who is looking to join a small, focused, passionate, and supportive team to help contribute to the evolution of our core B2B ordering platform and play a key role in the transition to a next-generation digital ordering experience. 

Reporting to the Software Development Manager you will help us improve our front-end applications to help drive productivity and efficiency within our business, and most importantly delight our customers.

As a highly motivated developer, with significant experience (at least 5 years), you will focus on creating features for modern cloud applications in Angular running on Azure. Within the digital products team, you will be the front-end expert, vital to sprint velocity, stand up, estimations, and retrospectives.

At a wider level, you will be critical to all stages of software development from architecture design, performance evaluation, to build and deployment pipeline creation, and application monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Angular and related technologies (TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, etc)
• Work closely with back-end developers, and product owners to translate business requirements into clean and functional user interfaces.
• Optimise applications for performance and scalability while ensuring application security.
• Implement unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the application.
• Push for continuous improvement and technical excellence in our solutions owning your code out into production.
• Engage with users to understand their challenges and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Being proactive in your development and the development of other engineers. Seeking out conferences, suggesting videos, always looking to develop skills and experience, where necessary.
• Find opportunities to get involved in teams outside of IT to improve your understanding of business&customer challenges.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years software development experience in a commercial setting.
• Proven experience developing Angular applications with a strong grasp of modern front-end principles and best practices.
• Solid knowledge of Web UI development (HTML, SASS, CSS, JS, TypeScript, etc.).
• Experience with version control systems, ideally Git.
• You are self-motivated and make pragmatic technical decisions separating perfection from delivering value to customers in a timely way.
• You have a strong focus on delivering quality code supported by code reviews and robust testing practices.
• Experience building applications with React
• Knowledge of feature flagging tooling like LaunchDarkly
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product delivery frameworks.
• API development using asp.net core (C#)
• Exposure to using OAuth2.0 / Open ID Connect in Angular applications.
• Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and security web applications.