Front End Developer

Pontoon ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Front End Developer - Contract - London Front End Developer (React/Azure/AWS) 6 Month Rolling Contract London £Competitvepwd WFH policy: 1 day a week is acceptable, anything beyond that open to discussion (this is not taking into account any epidemic related extended-WFH policies that may happen) Tech stack: React, Node, AWS, Azure About us Our vision is to become every customers favourite way to shop, wherever they are and however they're shopping. We want our customers to be inspired by the solutions that we are building to help them find whatever they are looking for. Here's how we're doing it: We are building systems to solve real world problems at scale, impacting tens of millions of people Teams of great Engineers (and Managers and Product Managers) to learn from We are agile and enlightened in our approach to building software and teams There's a great atmosphere and we work sustainably as a team We promote flexible working If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you. About the role As a Frontend / Web Software Engineer you'll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers upon the customer facing web applications. Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers. You'll be a passionate, pragmatic Frontend / Web Software Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customer first. You'll enjoy working as part of a team and be a keen problem solver. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and web development tooling and technologies you'll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams. Some of the tech we are using at scale: ES6, React, Redux, React-router, Node, Angular, Less, Styled-components Webpack, webdriver.io, Cloud Infrastructure, Docker Essential Skills and Experience Several Years commercial experience as a Frontend Software Developer Best-practices regarding all aspects of web development including design, semantic HTML mark-up, CSS, JavaScript and related technologies Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as: React, Redux, Webpack React-Router and testing with Jest, Jasmine, Enzyme, Mocha. Experience of using Node.js to create high traffic websites using Express.js, Sails, Koa or similar Experience in bringing multiple viewport responsive and adaptive web designs to life Awareness and practice of UI performance best practices Understanding and exposure to integrating REST API endpoints Strong experience and understanding of industry standard web accessibility, web design & usability; to support sites cross browser/platform/device A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code Exposure to the DevOps model Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD Cloud and Infrastructure experience required: Very strong Azure/AWS/GCP experience (Azure preferable) Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills Terraform Ansible Docker Kubernetes Ability to set up release pipelines, pre-production and production environments on cloud infrastructure Strong understanding of cloud hosting considerations Alerting / Monitoring Deployments CDNs Ability to debug infrastructure problems Scripting capabilities