Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

Zoopla ,
London, Greater London
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At Zoopla we want to help everyone make intelligent home buying decisions. We are building a team that will have the once in a career opportunity to re-imagine our industry. It`s an exciting time for us on the frontend as we`re redeveloping our whole site to a unified responsive design served by a new Node.js / Express / Handlebars architecture. Our platform is built on Amazon Web Services and utilises Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery. Why Zoopla... * We're serious about tech but we don't take ourselves too seriously. * We are spiritually agile, not religiously agile. * We strongly believe in the value of good design. We believe it is a primary differentiator in an increasingly crowded marketplace. * We believe in the value of data. We run a team that is data informed. We think being data-driven is soulless and dangerous. Clean, confident, clear data combined with the insights of the team is what drives our decisions. * We want to build small, collaborative, cross-functional teams that push each other to create elegant, simple solutions to difficult customer problems. * No matter what the role we want everyone to be obsessed with getting inside the minds of our customers. How do you know we're the best place for you? * You strive to set the standard and are always looking to raise the bar and want to be surrounded by others who do so as well * You enjoy knowing your customer * You want to build things together, collaboratively with your team * You want to own it; to have ownership and accountability for the outcomes of your effort * You value sharing and committing to discussions and debates with your teammates * And if you want to come help us re-imagine an industry Requirements The interesting stuff... * Writing HTML (semantic and accessible mark-up), CSS (understanding of modern techniques and recent CSS advances) and JavaScript (ability to code ES5 and/or ES6) following to best practices and principles * Knowledgeable and comfortable with Agile development practices * Responsive Design: using progressive enhancement and mobile-first approaches to create experiences that work everywhere and for everyone * Good knowledge of unit and functional testing * Some familiarity with Node.js * Knowledge of automation using npm * Solid understanding of UX concerns with the ability to provide feedback to designers to improve prototypes and designs * Experience with medium to large web development projects, working in a team that includes front and backend developers, product owners, QA testers, and UX/visual design specialists * Good understanding of Git

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