Front End Developer

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Tesco

to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.*

About The Role.

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 frontend development tooling and technologies you’ll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams.

You will be responsible for

Including, But Not Limited To

Use your in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node and the ecosystem of tools to develop and implement scalable frontend systems - ability, ability, Tesco,

Profile and optimise code

Apply understanding of cohesion and architectural principles to create well structured, maintainable software

Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal guidance

Translate requirements into tasks \& code

Develop high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery, ruthlessly pursuing continuous integration and delivery - CICD

Commit code early and often, demonstrating understanding of version control \& branching strategies

Automate everything by default

Write secure code by default

Write maintainable code and observe basic hygiene practices

Implement relevant project instrumentation

Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing

Work effectively with product stakeholders to communicate and translate needs into product improvements

Lead group discussions on system design and understand domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value

Support production systems, resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis

Debug/find complex problems and support/maintain the software solution

Share knowledge with the wider engineering community

Mentor and develop others around you

Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools

Must have

We Are Looking For People Who Have a Passion For Technology. You Will Demonstrate Experience Of Different Platforms And Technologies. We Expect To See Some Or All The Following

5+ Years commercial experience as a Frontend Software Developer

Best-practices regarding all aspects of web development including design, semantic HTML mark-up, CSS, TypeScript, and related technologies

Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as: React, Redux, React-Router and testing with React Testing Library Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Jasmine, Enzyme, Mocha.

Experience of using Node.js to create high traffic applications. Perhaps using Express.js, Sails, Koa or similar

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

Nice to have

Everyone’s Experience Is Different, And We Understand We Need To Be Realistic, However, We’d Be Especially Keen To Speak To You If You Have Experience With Any Of The Following

Bringing multiple viewport responsive and adaptive web designs to life

Modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks including Remix or Next.js

Exposure to state machines and statecharts. Bonus points if this is with XState

Developing web applications within the constraints of “non-standard” devices