Principal Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join a team that's passionate about climate action and decarbonisation! As a Principal Frontend Engineer at Plan A, you'll lead the Engineering team and provide technical authority in frontend expertise. You'll promote technical excellence, initiate projects to improve the technical foundation, and provide technical mentoring and consulting.

Requirements

• Track record as a senior or principal frontend engineer with experience building and scaling frontend architectures
• Deep expertise in modern frontend technologies, including JS, React, Typescript, CSS, and Node.js
• Experience/knowledge with micro-frontends/micro services
• Expertise in frontend architecture (webpack, grunt/gulp, npm, dependabot etc.)
• Experience with automation (eg. github actions for linters/tests/releases or jenkins pipeline)
• Passion for frontend testing and coverage (unit, e2e)
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineers
• Experience in leading technical and operational best practice within a frontend function chapter

Responsibilities

• Provide a technical authority in the area of speciality (eg. trusted to take the final call on any technical or architectural decisions)
• Promote technical excellence in the function, eg. through chapter sessions, documentation, setting up automations (eg. with Github Actions)
• Initiate projects, initiatives, and processes to improve the technical foundation and way of working in the function (ensuring security, scalability, performance)
• Provide technical mentoring and consulting in area of frontend expertise where required

Benefits

• Discounts and benefits are available through the Plan A Corporate Benefits Platform, with an online portfolio offering a variety of sustainable brands
• Monthly team activities, company on- and off-sites, and weekly in-person team gatherings
• Flexibility to work remotely, in-office, or a combination of both
• 28 vacation days per year
• 30 days of working-from-anywhere
• 1 volunteering day per year, plus annual educational leave