Senior Front End Software Engineer - Hatfield, United Kingdom - Ocado Group

Ocado Group
Ocado Group
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Hatfield, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description
We have an exciting new opportunity for a driven individual to join our ever growing Ecommerce department in Hatfield. (Hybrid)


You will join a cross-functional team that consists of talented web front end, Android, iOS, and backend engineers, QA, Team Lead and Product Manager.

We also work closely with UX and Product Analysts.


We are looking for a frontend-focused engineer to bring their passion for building polished, effective solutions to the problems we set out to tackle.

The main front end framework is built on React and with Express and is backed by a Java microservice backend.

Redux is used for state management and we have various layers of testing which includes Unit tests, System tests and visual regression tests.

Jest is used as a test runner, React Testing library for testing React components, Storybook for visual regression testing and Saucelabs for end-to-end testing.


Roles & Responsibilities

  • Working with UX and Product teams to understand problems, propose solutions and bring them to life.
  • Build functionality that works across locales in countries around the globe.
  • Explore new technical approaches to better our engineering practices.
  • Design solutions which can be understood and improved upon by others.
  • Take into account the business, technical and economic context when making design decisions.
  • Look for multiple ways to solve problems and communicate effectively the benefits and drawbacks of each
  • Work with your team to deliver valuable contributions of high quality, in the timescales agreed by your team.
  • Participate in the full delivery lifecycle, from technical discovery to value validation
  • Contribute to discussion and influence technical direction.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Experience writing modern Javascript
  • Proficient with CSS
  • A passion for great UX
  • A fundamental understanding of automated testing
  • Comfortable writing productionquality code, and rapid prototyping
  • Strong collaboration skills that will allow you to work effectively alongside a crossfunctional team
  • A desire to learn from others in order to improve your breadth and depth of knowledge.

Desirable

  • Experience using React
- experience

  • RESTful API design
  • Experience with CSSinJS or CSS preprocessors
  • Building features with accessibility as a core requirement

What do I get in return
**We're in it together, we are proud of what we do, we can be even better
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