Front-end Web Developer Design System - Bristol, United Kingdom - The Curve Group

The Curve Group

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you live and breathe front-end development technologies?

Do you have a passion for building outstanding digital experiences?

Are you looking for the next step in your career?

About the role

Hargreaves Lansdown is looking for a talented and enthusiastic front-end web developer to help us establish our new HL Design System, focusing on the development, ongoing maintenance and driving roll-out of a react based UI component library across multipleproduct teams.

This will accelerate HL's transformation, by allowing product team designers and engineers to access a set of reusable components to quickly create consistent and accessible experiences across all areas of HL's client and colleague facing journeys.

This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £100 billion in assets on behalf of 1.7 million UK investors.

We are a secure, FTSE 100 company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 1,700 people.
This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

You'll be given the support and opportunity to grow your career whilst additionally receiving a personal development budget to further buildon your knowledge.

About you

We are looking for someone that is passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for our clients, who has previous experience in design fundamentals and building React-based user interfaces, with the ability to write and support others inwriting excellent code and ensure we are adhering to high quality accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, and deploy new components to HL's Flare Design system library. Ensure UI components developed are scalable, performant and accessible.
Collaborate with UX designers during new and existing component builds to ensure effective component design and implementation.
Maintain a strong awareness of accessibility standards and how to test components against best practice and existing industry standards (i.e. WCAG).
Establish and maintain automated tests for the design system component library, with a continual focus on quality of new components and guarding against regression issues.
Maintain key documentation for the component library, ensuring it is useful for all stakeholders, e.g. maintaining Storybook.
Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the quality, security and performance of the library and CI/CD processes.
Complete code reviews for design system components to ensure quality and consistency is maintained within the design system component library.
Collaborate with and gain feedback from wider HL product and platform teams to ensure developed components can be successfully implemented, used and updated within UI journeys.
Provide daytoday support for the design system component library, fielding questions on component usage and investigating and resolving component bugs.

Skills

Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills
Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving
Proactive, resourceful and able to use initiative
Always has time for others whilst achieving high quality in own work and will also help other teams
Consults with others over large or complex decisions and able to articulately document these

Experience

Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining Reactbased JavaScript SPAs
Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (e.g. Jest)
Experience performing code reviews
Experience using npm, package management and versioning
Experience using package JavaScript module bundlers (webpack, )
Experience following an Agile methodology

Knowledge

Essential

Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS (SCSS), JavaScript and Typescript
Excellent working knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, in particular, React
Fluent using Git (GitLab)
Understanding CI / CD and Trunk Based Development
Aware of website performance implications and best practices
Advocate of excellent development practices including accessibility coding practices
Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation

Desirable

Previous experience of building and maintaining an effective design system component library
Experience using design system tooling (Storybook, Figma)
Knowledge of serverside JavaScript ecosystem )
Experience working with and implementing MarTech solutions such as Analytics, A/B Testing, Personalisation and Tag Management within a website

Attributes

Approachable, friendly, with a consistently positive, constructive attitude whilst performing daytoday activities
Promotes the culture of Hargreaves Lansdown in terms of quality, drive, pioneering activity and commitment to outstanding client service
Pragmatic and focused on delivery
Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally
Tenacious, with a pride in what you do
Have a mindset of continuous improvement in everyday work
Desire to contribute to the company's success and uphold its exceptional reputation