React / Front End Tech Lead

N Brown Group ,
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £65,000 per annum

Overview

Are you passionate about creating a future-fit, engineering practice? N Brown are looking for a React / Front End Tech Lead influential tech lead with experience in coaching and mentoring who thrives within a disruptive and fast-growing environment, hungry to learn and help the organisation evolve As well as a competitive salary of up to £70,000 you will receive a pension scheme, life assurance, 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, in addition to taking advantage of a holiday purchase scheme You will benefit from our flexible working hours and fantastic location based in the heart of the northern quarter, Manchester. You will receive fantastic employee discount on our products, a discounted share purchase scheme. access to our Employee Assistance Programme and much more Working at N Brown as a React / Front End Tech Lead you’ll explore everything the world of digital retail has to offer — asking questions, trying new things and chasing new opportunities. Combine this curiosity with the freedom to make your own decisions, take charge of projects and work flexibly, and you’ve got the perfect place to show your skills and learn new ones. As a React / Front End Tech Lead you will: - Provide end-to-end Senior Technical Leadership to the relevant squad(s) whilst contributing to the strategy and build of the wider Engineering practice in IT. - Lead squad code development in an Agile delivery structure, influencing wider development standards. - Work closely with all squad members including Product Owner, Scrum Master, developers and testers to ensure best practice development. - Lead Agile ceremonies - two week sprint planning, show and tells, retrospectives and delivery, contributing to optimizing the squad’s way of working. - Own code quality and tech debt including ensuring all code written is of high quality, performant, maintainable and all processes are automated and repeatable. - Monitor continuous integration using Jenkins and/or Gitlab including the Release Pipeline and quality process. - Work with the wider Engineering leadership team to transform squads into a DevOps model. - Proactively resolve technical issues within the squad and other squads whilst looking for continuous improvement opportunities from an operational process perspective. - Liaise with guild of other squad Tech Leads to ensure a standardized vision and approach to engineering across all squads within BIT. What experience are N Brown looking for in a React / Front End Tech Lead? - Experience in developing high quality, scalable and efficient web apps at an enterprise scale, with a solid understanding of the full software development cycle. - Front end development including React, Javascript, node.js, Next using common design principles including SOLID. - Complete technical proficiency in React / JavaScript development with extensive experience consuming and/or designing and building Microservices, within an Agile environment. - Though not essential, experience of Full Stack development is beneficial including Java, microservices, API gateways, Docker / Kubernetes, Spring Boot and containerisation. - Able to maintain the highest standard of code quality, unit tests, code coverage – SonarQube or similar. - Experience working in or building a scalable DevOps environment. Able to proactively assist team with this transformation and change. To join the team at N Brown as a React / Front End Tech Lead click apply now