Senior Front-End Engineer

Come and join our established UK Engineering team as a Senior Front-end Software Engineer - We are looking for someone curious, eager to solve problems, and excited to build alongside a collaborative team.

Reporting to one of our Engineering Managers and based in our Bristol office, you will be a key part of building our Immersive One platform. You ll join a team where we value determination, ingenuity, and pragmatic, reusable technical solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for developing a truly ground breaking product. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our product, working across our entire system landscape.

Our tech stack includes:

• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Python
• Frontend: React and TypeScript
• Testing: Playwright and TypeScript

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

About You

• 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 9best practice 9 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.