React Developer Job

Project Overview

You will work to an initiative to move the existing legacy software stack used by millions of our telco customer users into the digital age by using the latest cutting edge technologies and at the same time improve the over-all user experience when using the project's apps (web, mobile) focusing on ease of use and higher rates of conversion. You’ll be enabling our Consumer delivery squads by producing the components, framework and best practice guidelines which allows them to rapidly build and deploy front end code for the websites and applications seen by millions of customers each month. It’s a role where performance, accessibility, security and ease of use are more than a passing consideration. 

What you can expect & what we want you to do
 
•    Frontend Development of features and functionality
•    Building and codifying our framework agnostic Design system (Loop) 
•    Ensuring the correct front end patterns are in place 
•    Work with Architecture, Engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure the correct technical decisions are being made to deliver brilliant experiences for both internal and external customers
•    Working closely with the journey based product feature squads to help support their deliveries and also build out the design system contributions within a federated model
•    Escalate impediments when appropriate and ensure long-term solutions are pursued with pragmatism
•    Write clean, comprehensive and scalable code
•    Peer review squad work and coach and mentor junior team members
•    Contribute to technical responses and impact assessments for business propositions
•    Lead the technical analysis and troubleshooting of operational and security related issues
•    Write unit tests and other automated tests
•    Contribute to platform technical direction and strategy
•    Working with multi location onshore and offshore teams
•    Able to help drive technical decisions with clear evidence of rational
•    Successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team and with a wide variety of stakeholders
•    Identify opportunities to build once and deploy multiple times

What you are good at & what you’ll need to win

•    University Degree or advanced diploma in a software engineering-related discipline, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
•    At least 4-5 years of experience on a similar position is required
•    Very good knowledge of JavaScript
•    Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles and experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) 
•    Design System experience
•    Previous experience contributing to a Design System initiative, ideally at scale
•    JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Accessibility standards and responsive design
•    Experienced consuming REST APIs.
•    Practical application of software product development standards and methodologies including Agile
•    Demonstrated problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills 
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English