Frontend Software Developer

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job title: Frontend Software Developer

Job location: Central London

Employment type: Contract (3 months)

Industry: IT, Media

Daily rate: £450-£500

The opportunity

Our client, a reputable Media company is looking for a Frontend Software Developer to build an engaging, fast, reliable, and secure website that showcases the client's work and encourages subscription. You'll ensure high-quality code is delivered quickly and to a high standard, develop and release fixes and enhancements to the production system taking great care to minimize risk to the platform and its users. You'll be collaborating in the development of the client's performance and verification pipelines, and the cloud infrastructure required to run these, with the constant aim of full automation.

What you'll do:

  • Developing a brand new application using web technologies
  • Apply modern best practices in your designs and implementations.
  • Helping define and develop the testing strategy
  • Collaborate with other engineers to prioritize and ship features.
  • Contribute to technical scoping and work estimate
  • Integrating tooling into the CI/CD pipelines
  • Constantly seeking ways to improve the platform and the team's processes. Ensuring these best practices are shared across the wider technology team.
  • Work with a DevOps mindset to help build, run and own your own code in a production environment.
  • Work closely within a Matrix organization made up of Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Software Engineers as well as third-party vendors.
  • Be an active member of the Engineering Team, contributing to the vibrant culture and promoting the brand through public channels such as open source communities, blogs and meetups.
  • Bridge the divide between Technical and Non-Technical stakeholders - tailoring your language and approach appropriately.
  • Keep up with the latest technology innovations in media, cloud, and software development.

What you have:

  • Experience of writing JavaScript in an asynchronous nature with promises, closures, types and ES6 features.
  • Experience of working with Node.js and its associated frameworks
  • Experience of working with testing technologies such as Jest, Cypress, a11y, Backstop, Lighthouse etc.
  • Writing semantic, component-driven, HTML and CSS with progressive enhancement in mind.
  • Previous experience working with CSS preprocessors such as Sass or LESS.
  • Previous experience with any popular CRM.
  • Usage of build tools such as Webpack and/or npm scripts to aid Front End workflows.
  • Prior experience with Docker containers and CI/CD Servers such as Jenkins.
  • Best practice knowledge of security, performance, and accessibility.
  • Working knowledge of modern browser APIs.

Additional useful skills:

  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms and serverless architecture with AWS and/or GCP.
  • Previous usage of workflow tools such as JIRA and/or Trello.
  • A firm believer in test-driven development and continuous deployment with tools such as Jenkins.
  • Exposure to RESTful APIs and aiding their development.
  • Been part of a high-performing, autonomous, Agile development Team.
  • A keen interest in UX and understanding of visual design.

If you are interested in this opportunity don't hesitate to apply!

Start date
ASAP
Duration
3 months
From
Harvey Nash IT Recruitment UK
Published at
05.03.2021
Project ID:
2063137
Contract type
Freelance
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