Lead Frontend Developer
🇬🇧 £65k-£80k per year on a full time, employment contract
🇪🇺 76k-93k EUR per year on a full time, contractor contract
🌎 Fully remote working from anywhere in Europe!
✨ Exciting products, millions of users, sold to global brands
💻 Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools
🏋️♀️ Access to benefits (country dependent 🌎)
- Working on websites for some of the biggest names in the US entertainment industry, as well as working on our own products like Storyteller
- Working with the latest web technologies, this mostly means HTML, CSS, JS, React and TypeScript
- Working with build tools like NPM and Webpack
- Using Git and GitHub to collaborate on code
- Using tools like Storybook to build and test components
- Using JIRA, Slack and Zoom to communicate with team members
- Working with designers and other developers to build websites from specs produced in Figma
- Testing your code on different browsers and devices
- Testing and measuring performance using tools like Lighthouse
- Learning and improving upon our internal coding standards
- Self-evaluating and reviewing your own work, as well as providing feedback on code written by other team members
- Developing your own skills by learning from other team members and through independent research
- Deciding when to use an NPM package, which package to use or whether to write your own code and sharing your decision-making process
- Leading a small-team of front-end developers – ensuring their continued professional development and working with them to make great decisions
- A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role, including at least 2 years of experience working with React
- A relevant degree, we may consider additional professional experience in lieu of a degree
- Excellent HTML, CSS and JS fundamentals – can write semantic and accessible HTML, and build websites that are performant on modern browsers and devices
- Experience using component-driven development to efficiently craft first-class web experiences
- A desire to build fantastic user experiences on the web
- Know how to write CSS and have experience using at least one methodology for keeping it maintainable, we normally use ITCSS with SCSS and component-driven development
- Ability to learn and apply best practices during development for the purpose of keeping code maintainable, readable, and performant
- Has an interest in creating well-crafted user experiences, an interest in UI/UX design is a bonus too
- Experience leading a team of any size
- An understanding of progressive enhancement and experience using it to habitually build the best user experiences for the most users possible
- Experience using unit tests or experience with test-driven development
We use the latest tools, hardware and methodologies across our teams. We’re always on the look-out for new ways of working and ensure everyone is setup with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows or Mac.
Agility Openness for Ideas
We actively encourage the entire team to share their ideas, with that in mind we regularly adopt and implement suggestions across the company, you’re the specialist here!
Operating with the agility of a high growth start-up, alongside the support you can expect from a larger organisation means we encourage quick decision making and a responsive, adaptive culture.
We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality, skills and a passion for what people do. We’re a small, start-up team with around 30 people onboard.
PAYMENT
£65,000 – £80,000 per year on a full time, employment contract, depending on experience and skills.
CONTRACT TYPE
EU – Full time contractor contract – fully remote working from anywhere in Europe!