Senior Front End Engineer
We’re looking for an ambitious, motivated and product-focused senior front-end developer who is also passionate about human rights, the environment and making a difference. Your role will be to develop the front end for our platform, to lead our frontend team, and to build out our design system alongside our extremely talented UI & UX designer. Your work will be central to our product and the role is expected to grow with the company.
The role is a server- and client-side front end development role with a significant product ownership and team development responsibility. You will build the interface to a product that our clients will use every day, including organisation management, complex data interfaces and reporting.
You’ll be joining a tight-knit team consisting of our CTO, three software engineers, a UI/UX designer and QA and product support. Whilst your primary role will be delivering high-quality, well-tested and performant javascript, you’ll also be expected to provide frontend leadership and mentorship.
About you:
Requirements:
Ability and experience to evaluate long-term impacts of front end design decisions
5+ years of full stack or front-end engineering experience
Deep knowledge of and extensive practical experience in web app development including HTML, CSS, React, NextJS and Typescript
A strong desire to learn new things, solve problems and leave everything you encounter better than you found it a detail-oriented focus, coupled with a product shipping mindset
Practical experience with Git
Nice to Haves:
Experience with AWS including ECS and RDS
Experience with Jest and/or React Testing Library and/or an opinion on testing frameworks and methodologies
Experience with Python and FastAPI
Experience with Figma and/or similar design tools
Experience with data visualisation
Experience with container-based architectures (docker, k8s etc)
A maths or computer science degree from a top-tier university
Benefits:
Salary of £60-85k dependent on experience
Generous equity options
Generous hardware budget on joining flexible hours with the opportunity to mix working in our beautiful riverside office and WFH
A wonderful team that make coming to work a joy
A mission that will get you out of bed every morning knowing you’re doing good in the world
To apply, please email a cover letter and CV to info@route2.com