Lead Frontend Developer

🇬🇧 £65k-£80k per year on a full time, employment contract

🇪🇺 76k-93k EUR per year on a full time, contractor contract

🌎 Fully remote working from anywhere in Europe!

✨ Exciting products, millions of users, sold to global brands

💻 Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools

🏋️‍♀️ Access to benefits (country dependent 🌎)

• Working on websites for some of the biggest names in the US entertainment industry, as well as working on our own products like Storyteller
• Working with the latest web technologies, this mostly means HTML, CSS, JS, React and TypeScript
• Working with build tools like NPM and Webpack
• Using Git and GitHub to collaborate on code
• Using tools like Storybook to build and test components
• Using JIRA, Slack and Zoom to communicate with team members
• Working with designers and other developers to build websites from specs produced in Figma
• Testing your code on different browsers and devices
• Testing and measuring performance using tools like Lighthouse
• Learning and improving upon our internal coding standards
• Self-evaluating and reviewing your own work, as well as providing feedback on code written by other team members
• Developing your own skills by learning from other team members and through independent research
• Deciding when to use an NPM package, which package to use or whether to write your own code and sharing your decision-making process
• Leading a small-team of front-end developers – ensuring their continued professional development and working with them to make great decisions

• A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role, including at least 2 years of experience working with React
• A relevant degree, we may consider additional professional experience in lieu of a degree
• Excellent HTML, CSS and JS fundamentals - can write semantic and accessible HTML, and build websites that are performant on modern browsers and devices
• Experience using component-driven development to efficiently craft first-class web experiences
• A desire to build fantastic user experiences on the web
• Know how to write CSS and have experience using at least one methodology for keeping it maintainable, we normally use ITCSS with SCSS and component-driven development
• Ability to learn and apply best practices during development for the purpose of keeping code maintainable, readable, and performant
• Has an interest in creating well-crafted user experiences, an interest in UI/UX design is a bonus too
• Experience leading a team of any size

• An understanding of progressive enhancement and experience using it to habitually build the best user experiences for the most users possible
• Experience using unit tests or experience with test-driven development