Senior Developer

Summary

Join Future's Technology & Engineering department as a Senior Developer to contribute to the Vanilla platform, a custom-built TypeScript and PHP system. You will build stable UI components using TailwindCSS, optimizing for Google Core Web Vitals and collaborating with UX designers. Responsibilities include defining architecture decisions, maintaining platform understanding, debugging, writing tests, ensuring clean code, and mentoring junior developers. The role requires modern web development experience, deep understanding of CSS and JavaScript, TypeScript experience, and full-stack programming skills. The position offers a remote work environment and various benefits.

Requirements

• Modern web development experience in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• A deep level understanding of the inner workings and latest features of both CSS and JavaScript
• Experience with TypeScript and ability to work with complex types along with knowledge of modern build systems
• The ability to build performant components from scratch in modern JavaScript frameworks
• Experience with some full stack programming in languages such as PHP, TypeScript and/or Go
• Interpret and act on Flame graphs and other dev tools to increase application performance
• An understanding of the importance of consistency and standards in front-end development
• Experience with Git
• Retrieving and marshalling data from a variety of sources (databases, external APIs)
• You have experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools and practices
• You have experience with creating and running containers locally

Responsibilities

• Build stable UI components using TailwindCSS, with emphasis on optimising for Google Core Web Vitals
• Collaborate with UX designers to bring clean, accurate UI to life, while ensuring all technical standards are upheld
• Play an important part in defining architecture decisions and maintaining an understanding of the Vanilla platform and its integrations, such as the Kiosq paywall and Arcade ecommerce tools
• Be hands-on across the stack, responsible for debugging, writing unit and end-to-end tests, and ensuring code is clean, testable, and well-documented
• Contribute to code reviews, QA, and production deployment, while mentoring junior developers and sharing your expertise during regular hack days and innovation sessions

Benefits

• Uncapped leave, because we trust you to manage your workload and time
• When we hit our targets, enjoy a share of our profits with a bonus
• Refer a friend and get rewarded when they join Future
• Wellbeing support with access to our Colleague Assistant Programmes
• Opportunity to purchase shares in Future, with our Share Incentive Plan