Senior Front-End Engineer

Job Description

Senior Front-End EngineerOur client is a global data and measurement-driven agency that blends data science, objective media and captivating experiences to build valuable connections between brands and consumers. Clients include Google, FrieslandCampina, and the Financial Times.The agency is more than 1,700 people strong, manages over $3.2B in media spend and deploys campaigns in 71 markets via its global offices throughout North America, EMEA and APAC. About the role As a Senior Front-End Engineer, you will work with a dedicated team to build captivating online experiences with a strong focus on quality and creating value for our clients.Youll work with a team of engineers using open source technologies, tools and delivery approaches to rapidly design and build. Our philosophy of continuous improvement means all team members are committed to play and reinvent the way we work, encouragingeveryone to grow and improve their skills. Responsibilities

• Manage the teams workload and work with the Product Owner on backlog prioritisation
• Lead the effort of accurate estimates on requirements
• Ensure all tasks are completed as planned and executed to the highest level of quality and efficiency
• Be an active contributor to the FE Chapter - attend Chapter sessions, contribute to the discussions, share ideas and help set the standards and processes for the Chapter
• Work collaboratively with the Design and Product practices. Ensure all new UX / Design brief is fully understood, technically assessed and signed-off for your project before development
• Identify performance or quality issues and design and implement changes to make these more efficient and effective
• Produce clean, efficient, reusable, tested code

Competencies

• Use of Angular (9+) in a commercial setting building enterprise applications
• Minimum 5 years experience using OOP in Typescript
• Solid understanding of key software design patterns used within Angular
• Solid understanding of component architecture and event flow
• Application state management (e.g. ngrx, redux)
• Advanced HTML5, CSS and CSS preprocessors (Sass or Less)
• Automated TDD and BDD approaches using frameworks like Cypress, Jest, Jasmine, Mocha or Chai with Protractor and Karma
• Package managers (NPM or Yarn)
• Webpack, Gulp or Grunt
• Version control using Git (or Mercurial) with Github or GitLab
• Web development with API-feed data
• Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
• Using style / brand guides
• Working with designers (graphic and UX)
• Designing and implementing technical solutions that are robust, scalable, performant and secure
• Ability to assess the impact of decisions made when designing and implementing solutions on our clients bottom line
• Great interpersonal skills; able to communicate at all levels of seniority and levels of technical understanding

Skills

• Influencing technical decisions in a project
• Attention to detail and producing pixel perfect implementation of designs
• A strong work ethic; able to work under pressure and juggle multiple responsibilities to meet deadlines and deliver great results
• An ability to work without close supervision, supply clear progress updates, raise concerns when necessary and ultimately manage your own time to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide an interface to perform e2e tests from eXecutable Specification (Gherkin syntax)
• Staying abreast of the latest developments in Front-end
• Strong sense of UX from a coding perspective
• Mentoring junior engineers

Knowledge

• Web Accessibility (specifically WAI-ARIA)
• Working in a CI / CD environment
• Using containers / Docker
• Atomic or material design
• Agile / Scrum
• Sound understanding of coding standards and conventions
• Documentation
• Familiarity with OpenAPI

Desirable

• Familiarity with React, Node.js, Python and Go
• HATEOAS / Hypermedia APIs

If you are interested in this Senior Front-end Engineer role, apply today with your CV.

Keyskills :
AdvertisingEngineeringSoftwareFront-endFully remote