Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

We are seeking a motivated and talented Software Engineer to help design and build upcoming features in our roadmap. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work on a range of different tasks from business-as-usual requests, multi-tenanted products, greenfield projects and bespoke client projects. You will join a dynamic team and have the ability to influence not just our frontend ecosystem but our wider architecture. If you are passionate about building robust systems from the ground up, can work in a proactive and professional capacity, problem solve with minimal information, and provide feedback and estimates to clients this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy responsive, modular components using the latest in modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue).
• Build reusable components that pull from a modern accessible design system.
• Leverage TypeScript to ensure high maintainability, extensibility and scalable solutions.
• Integrate with third party libraries for navigation, forms, state management and API layers.
• Design and feedback on product architecture for an entire product features software lifecycle
• You’ll help set the quality standard across our Frontend development, from React to React Native, to our older Vue applications.
• Take charge of your local development environment and see features through to production.
• Feedback and define on data contracts with the backend developers.
• Implement comprehensive testing, robust exception handling, and application monitoring to ensure high availability and minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with the team to maintain high standards for code quality and maintainability.

• Fluent English speaking and written communication
• 5+ years working with a modern JavaScript/TypeScript framework (Vue.js, React.js etc).
• Demonstrable experience breaking down Figma (or equivalent) designs into modular reusable components in keeping with a Design System
• Demonstrable Experience with state management (Context, VueX, Redux, Zustand)
• Demonstrable Experience with Test Driven Development, ability to implement unit tests, component tests and integration tests
• Ability to feedback and discuss data contracts between the FE and BE
• Exposure to React Native and/or Expo for mobile apps
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment using scrum delivery methodology and using tools such as Jira/Confluence (or equivalent)
• Experience working in cross-discipline collaborative teams (e.g. Design, Data, Product, Dev, Infrastructure)

• Experience with testing frameworks such as (Puppeteer, Playwright)
• Experience with product analytic such as Mixpanel, Amplitude etc
• Experience working with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions etc.
• Experience with Frontend Infrastructure, deployment, observability and maintenance
• Experience developing solutions that are accessible (See WCAG)
• Desire to contribute to the wider technical quality of front-end solutions at Spectrum (from code to tooling).