Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

Plentific ,
London, Greater London
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Plentific is one of the fastest-growing property technology companies in the UK, with offices in Germany and Turkey. Our mission is to improve lives by making housing and property work better for everyone. We empower landlords and property managers with a platform to manage their properties. We utilise great local trade talent to create more jobs, build community cohesion and provide better services than ever before. Since our humble beginnings in 2013, weve achieved a lot at Plentific: * Were growing fast. We work with many of the biggest property providers in the UK. * Dramatically improved outcomes for housing providers, speeding up service delivery fivefold and creating economic opportunities within their local communities. * Set a new industry benchmark on responsive repairs by reducing typical time frames (20 days) to less than 4 days. * Recognised as Deal of the Year - Residential at the UK PropTech Awards 2018, * Recognised as Professional Services Partner at the UK Housing Awards 2019 and; * Repairs and Maintenance Provider of the Year at the 24Housing Awards 2019. * Entered partnerships with social enterprises such as Beam , with whom we help co-fund training for homeless people into trades jobs, and thus rebuild their lives. 2019 was an exciting year for Plentific - we were celebrated as leaders of transformative change - not just in our sector - but across business in the UK (UKBA Business Change/Transformation winner). Following a major funding round, were now expanding into the wider professional/commercial real estate sector in Europe, with plans to launch into the US multi-family market later this year. We're a technology led business. We're proud to develop cutting-edge solutions for our customers, and that's only possible to do with a great team. Our culture is open. Empowering. Fast paced. If you're tenacious, passionate and driven, you'll fit right in. The team: The engineering team sits at the centre of everything we do at Plentific and is constantly tackling challenging problems, such as online payments, quoting, invoicing, booking, search / scoring algorithms, ETL, data pipelines, in-app messaging, real-time notifications and fraud prevention. Our frontend engineers mostly work with JavaScript (ES6, React, TypeScript, Alt.js, Node.js, Express) on an increasingly more service-oriented architecture. The rest of the tech stack include Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, AWS, Amazon Redshift, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Celery, Pandas, Numpy, Scrapy, Git with Zenhub, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Logstash and lots of raw SQL for analytics. We have a very large but clean code base as we put significant emphasis on design patterns, code readability, testability, maintainability and extendability. The opportunity: Were looking for an experienced frontend engineer to join the engineering team. Youll be working alongside a highly technical and motivated team and report to the technical co-founder. You would be expected to apply fundamental engineering and mathematical skills to solve problems and overcome challenges, not just develop code. For people with the right mindset, this frame of mind provides an intellectually stimulating environment. Responsibilities: * Work with product owners, product managers, user interface designers and other software engineers to write technical documents that identify software project requirements * Write well-formulated, testable and readable code using appropriate software design patterns * Diagnose and solve page load and other speed issues * Debug and fix bugs across our applications * Participate in code reviews * Review, maintain and refactor existing code to meet the requirements for improved or new features * Write technical documentation of code, algorithms and APIs * Help in drafting of end-user manuals * Identify, evaluate and communicate frontend best practices Requirements * Expert level knowledge of JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript) * Strong computer science fundamentals and JavaScript design patterns * 5+ year commercial React experience using one of the Flux frameworks * Strong understanding of UI/UX best practices and considerations * Passion for writing clean, modular, well-commented, readable and reusable code * Ability to think out of the box with a can-do attitude to get things done efficiently * Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts in plain English * Top academics (BSc, MSc) in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or another field with strong programming curriculum Benefits As you can see, we have big plans and are eager to grow our team of dreamers and doers to achieve our vision of managing over 1 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management. Heres what we offer: * A competitive compensation package * Private health care including discounted gym membership * Learning and development fund * A flexible working en

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