Frontend Engineer

You are a coder and love coding. You have a passion for learning to better yourself through your coding. Automation and the value it brings amazes you and you get your kicks from delivering systems to the customer. You take pride in delivering world-class reliable and scalable systems

Expectations of you:

As a member of the engineering team, you will deliver robust web apps and sites as directed by business constraints while respecting controls. As the engineer, you are expected to:

• Lead the delivery of coding while meeting quality criteria and project constraints
• Explore and try different methods to improve productivity of the team
• Ensure alignment to Chief Architect roadmaps and strategies
• Meet service levels for systems (availability, security, and performance)
• Influence the direction of the overall architecture
• Understands deeply about the modern web platform, especially web components, progressive web apps
• Critical attention to detail about code, efficiency, and design
• Has strong problem-solving ability and strong analytical skills
• Develop and maintain standards of software development and components where applicable Identify and reduce technical debt
• Mentor & coach other developers in their learning & development
• Be able to work alone or with others as needs dictate
• Take ownership of all assigned tasks
• Take ownership of systems and services assigned in production
• Be proactive in promoting ‘Best Practices’
• Be available for out of hours support as required
• Has experience working in an agile development lifecycle
• Communication (written/verbal) to be well developed and of a professional standard
• Can liaise with a broad range of people, including line management, senior management, Product owners, and related people

​ Knowledge and skillsets

• Experience with the latest versions of JavaScript (ES6/ESNext), HTML, CSS and NPM
• Web components (LitElement)
• W3C Standards and features
• Browser Compatibility and Modern browser features
• Web accessibility
• Internationalization and Localization

Web Servers

• Nodejs (express)
• NGINX

Continuous Integration/tooling

• Git / Gitflow
• Branching strategies
• Test automation
• Code quality tools
• Code scaffolding
• Build tools and related libraries (rollup / webpack / transpiling)

PAAS and Web Engineering

• Proxies
• CDN and caching
• Gateways
• HTTP Protocols and browser networking
• Web Analytics and Logging

Security

• JWT / SAML
• API Security

Architecture

• Large scale client-side web applications
• Atomic design
• SPAs
• Progressive web apps
• Micro-frontend design
• State management