Job Title: Front-End Engineer
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Salary: £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits and superb working environment (salary negotiable and commensurate with experience)
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week)
Working Hours: 09:00 to 17:30 Monday to Friday
The Company is seeking an exceptional Front-End Engineer to join their innovative and dynamic team with strong React Native experience.
They are an innovative Technology company providing some of the largest businesses in the UK and globally with customer service and payment solutions. Though well-established, they don’t stand still. They are growing rapidly and strive to continually improve by using the latest technology and developing new solutions to both meet their customers’ needs and keep them ahead of the market, which is exemplified by their recent move into Cloud Native architecture, applications and way of working.
As a seasoned Front-End Engineer, you will enjoy developing mobile and desktop applications from inception to fruition, using your knowledge of best practice and application security principles. You will be working on a range of complex projects across the Company’s portfolio of clients.
You will also be instrumental in helping to transition applications from existing data centres to the AWS cloud, through an evolving CI/CD pipeline, as part of an Agile DevOps team.
Key aspects of this role include:
- Development across web and mobile applications
- Innovating UX design
- Application security
If you are a passionate and enthusiastic individual seeking a new challenge, and this sounds like a fit for your skillset, why not find out more about the Company and this exciting opportunity.
Their Culture:
Their values sit at the heart of their culture and are summarised below.
- They Encourage and support everyone to grow
- They Challenge, listen, and are open minded to change and suggestions from others.
- As trusted advisors, they use their Knowledge to solve challenges and deliver the best for clients
- They take personal Ownership to strive for excellence in whatever they do
- They are welcoming, embrace diversity and respect each other in a spirit of true Humanity
They work in an award winning, colourful, dynamic, and collaborative environment where you will find flexibility, an open plan office and excellent opportunities for career growth. They cross-departmental teams work on exciting projects, releasing new technologies to a wide range of clients.
With over 250 colleagues spread across the globe, they are a friendly bunch with a lot of knowledge and exciting plans. They are serious about what they do, but they certainly have a sense of humor. The Company is brimming with friendly, energetic, and creative individuals, who are proud to be a part of their unique success story.
Key Responsibilities:
- Client & third party back end system integrations (REST / SOAP)
- Payment websites
- Complex multi-channel self-serve applications
- Internal and external customer facing tools (SPAs)
- You will be expected to work autonomously at times, grasp concepts quickly and communicate ideas and questions clearly with the team and project stakeholders.
- You will need to demonstrate a desire for continual learning and improvement.
Technical Skills and Desirables:
- 3+ years commercial experience designing and implementing elegant UI’s for B2B and B2C applications
- Familiarity with React Native and other Frameworks (Express, Zend, Symfony, Laravel, Angular, Vue.js etc.)
- Web application security including OWASP best practices
- TDD / BDD
- Comfortable with modern development tooling (i.e. GIT, Jira, Jenkins, CI/CD, etc.)
- Familiarity with the Linux command line (bash)
- Knowledge of designs patterns, SOLID, DRY, DI, etc
- HTML5, CSS 3 SASS / LESS
Knowledge and Experience in one or more of the following is highly advantageous:
- Solution / architecture design
- Docker / K8S
- DevOps
- Test automation
- SRE
- Encryption
- BI / Metrics / Analytics
- PaaS / FaaS
- PCI-DSS
- IVR / VoiceXML / CCXML
Company Benefits
- 25 days holiday and increases with service
- Excellent Share Incentive Scheme
- Life insurance
- Simply Health scheme
- Access to group Bupa membership scheme.
- Pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Employee Recognition schemes
- Free tea, coffee, fresh fruit and snacks
- Relaxation floor (lunch area, quiet room, pool table, Xbox)
- Well-being initiatives, such as in-house Reflexology and Sports Massage
- Discounted offers
- Team days and Volunteering events
- Christmas & summer company events
- Focused on education and training (conference attendance, higher education sponsorship)
Please click the APPLY button to send your CV & Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Software Developer, Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, IT Developer, Senior Developer, Programmer, AWS, Lead Developer, Technical Developer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Developer, Software Development, IT Solutions Software Developer, Front End Developer, Web Developer will also be considered for this role.
