Senior Front End Developer

Summary

Join Version 1 as a Front-End Developer and collaborate with various team members to design and develop digital products. You will ensure code aligns with requirements and adheres to coding standards, optimizing performance and suggesting upgrades. Responsibilities include developing interfaces for web and mobile applications, collaborating on architecture design, and mentoring junior team members. You will champion best practices like TDD and code reviews. The ideal candidate possesses extensive front-end development experience with TypeScript and React, along with experience in Agile environments and exceptional communication skills. Version 1 offers a comprehensive benefits package prioritizing employee wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

Requirements

• You will have an extensive background in front-end development with significant experience working with TypeScript and React
• Experience with Unit Testing with Jest
• Continuous Integration experience (Docker)
• A passion for coding and keeping up to date with new technologies frameworks and techniques
• Extensive experience in an Agile environment
• Exceptional communication skills to interact with clients and onsite and near-shore development teams
• Ability to prioritise and handle several tasks at once with multiple deadlines will be important

Responsibilities

• Experience working closely with key stakeholders across the engineering team, including Architects, Product Owners and UX designers understanding and demonstrating how written requirements translate into a technical solution
• Develop interfaces for web and mobile applications and develop high-quality, efficient, reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborate with other team members to formulate and articulate end-to-end architecture and (non-) functional design
• Responsible to take ownership of the Frontend digital and software platform
• Ensure the use of Version 1’s’s Agile process and framework
• Instil champion best practices within the team, including TDD, code reviews and pair programming
• Mentor and bring on junior members of the team
• Design flexible and configurable software components
• Produce well designed, testable, maintainable, secure and efficient code

Preferred Qualifications

• Any further experience with Next.js/Angular/Vue.js is beneficial
• Experience with mobile development frameworks like React Native is beneficial
• Experience with GraphQL with React for efficient data fetching and state management is preferred
• Experience in back-end integration and any experience with backend technologies like Java/Python/NodeJS is an advantage

Benefits

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes