Description
Frontend Developer with strong JavaScript experience required to join our Engineering Team to work on some of the world's largest, high scale eCommerce platforms and online customer journeys.
Due to continued growth, our Engineering and project teams are growing and we are looking for Front End JavaScript Developers to join our team. This is a really exciting time to join us and work with some of the worlds' best known brands and retailers such as Bosch, DFS, Johnson & Johnson, MAC, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell, Specialized, Tempur and Tiffany & Co.
The techy bit .we need:
The ideal candidate will have prior experience in a similar role at a software house and/or an eCommerce company and has the following skills:
- Mastery of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (ES6) adhering to industry defined coding standards
- Commercial Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
- Commercial experience of unit testing/Integration/end-to-end testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)
- Experience of using CSS pre-processors, CSS-in-JS (we use SASS and styled components)
- Commercial experience of JavaScript ecosystem tooling such as linters/formatters/bundlers (we ESlint/Prettier/webpack)
- Solid understanding of the Agile methodology ie Story point estimation, refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos
- Commercial experience of using version control tooling (GIT) in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
- Good understanding/awareness of Accessibility, SEO Principles, Security, Performance best practices
- A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
- Experience in bringing multiple viewport responsive and adaptive web designs to life
- The candidate has to have good communication skills and capability to interact directly with the wider team (show and tells/requirement analysis sessions/retrospectives etc)
If you know some of this even better!
- Knowledge of Node and NextJS
- Experience with content management platforms such as AEM
- Commercial experience in at least one JS framework eg React/Angular/Vue.JS
- Commercial experience of working with eCommerce JSP integration
- Additional Commercial eCommerce platform experience - Magento/Hybris/Shopify
- Experience of working on Java/Node/C#/PHP projects would be extremely advantageous
- Commercial experience in building headless solutions
Wunderman Thompson Commerce is a global Commerce consultancy that applies strategy, technical know-how and outstanding design to help its ambitious clients grow through Commerce solutions.
How? By creating inspirational and shopper journeys. It's why we work with some of the most exciting brands around such as Bosch, DFS, Johnson & Johnson, MAC, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell, Specialized, Tempur and Tiffany & Co.
Tell me more! We're an inclusive group of more than 1500 expert thinkers and doers stationed across more than 20 global offices including our new, state-of-the-art offices in Watford, and two agency offices in Central London. Our reputation is based on having the best in the business - people who are inspired yet straight-talking, and who really want to understand not just our clients but their customers. We are passionate about innovation in everything we do, and proud of what our people achieve, empowering and respecting every one of them.
Together, we keep our clients and their customers inspired and ahead through digital, future-ready Commerce solutions and services. When our clients win - we win.
As our business grows internationally, we're seeking new people who share our values and work ethic. We especially want to encourage more women to join, and take a key role in shaping some of the best Commerce sites and experiences in the world
At Wunderman Thompson, a WPP company, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect. As leaders and creative partners across industries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that this commitment inspires growth and delivers equitable outcomes for everyone as well as the clients and communities we serve.