Lead Front End Engineer

As a Lead Front end Engineer you’ll:
• drive the technical delivery of their team, managing their workload and ensuring the right skills are available
• be responsible for the work undertaken by your Developers and DevOps staff, and will be expected to work with Seniors and Principals to ensure that services produced are best practice
• have a solid technical background and will be able to apply these skills if required to provide guidance to your team
• maintain a broad perspective, monitoring technology developments such that you can support strategy formation
• (along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal Engineers in your area) be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate & endorsed and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis

Responsibilities

We’re interested in people who have experience in:
• and a strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• quality/test driven approach
• Javascript
• modern frontend frameworks – we use the React framework
• node.js
• experience of RESTful APIs & Ability to architect and maintain backward compatible APIs
• microservices architecture
• experience of working on and contributing to Open Source Software projects
• using platform components to deliver services to users