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Frontend Engineer

TrustedHousesitters

About TrustedHousesitters

TrustedHousesitters is a global marketplace that is disrupting the pet care and travel industries. We connect a community of home and pet owners with sitters to solve a common two-sided problem - pet care and cost effective travel. Our "consumer SAAS" business model means that customers join for one annual fee. After that, sits take place as a trust-based, money-free exchange that sees owners enjoy worry-free travel while our sitters enjoy the company of pets and unlock a world of unique accommodation.

We enjoy exceptional customer retention rates driven by the fact that our owners and sitters realise the amazing value and incredible experiences we can facilitate. We have more five star reviews on Trustpilot than any other pet care or travel company.

We're fully in scale-up mode and have grown to be the only global platform of its kind. In the last few years, we’ve consistently achieved high year-on-year growth, and have remained resilient throughout the COVID-19 crisis. The USA has become our biggest market, followed by UK and Australia.

All of our operations are based in our office next to the railway station in Brighton to make it simple for our team to travel to and from home. We are flexible with our working arrangements and are looking to continue with a blend of home and office working as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis.

We employ software engineers, product managers and designers and data scientists who operate in agile squads. Our marketing team have been focussing on growing our reach in the USA and globally, and our membership services team provide outstanding levels of support to our customers.

We’re currently part of the Upscale 5.0 programme operated by Tech Nation, the leading growth programme for the 30 most promising scale-ups in the country. We're on this programme because we pride ourselves on having a very strong focus on creating fabulous product experiences for our customers, taking them to market in an innovative way, and providing outstanding service. We have a strongly collaborative team culture and are supportive of flexible working.

We are transforming the pet care and travel landscape. We believe we offer the best solution and our team are united by our commitment to delivering an enriching experience for our customers and having a positive impact on the lives of their pets.

About the Role

We're looking or an experienced product-centric Frontend Engineer to join our "Acquire & Convert" cross functional squad.

You will work with product managers, designers and QA's to build testable, maintainable, accessible, and performant user interfaces.

You will contribute to ideation and product discovery sessions, providing technical input on the MVP design and implementation of features and A/B tests.

You will contribute code reviews, support and mentoring to other members of the squad, to help them accomplish team goals.

Requirements

  • Extensive commercial experience in building performant, accessible, web applications; it’s not so much about the number of years and more about the skills and knowledge you have, however, for this role you need to be able to work independently, and support other less experienced team members.
  • Fluent in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Extensive experience using React/Redux/Node.js/Webpack
  • Intimate knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device development
  • Ability to write high-performance, reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing
  • Ideally, you have experience working with the performance profiling and debugging tools in your web browser of choice — tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, WebPageTest, and others.
  • Great communication skills with an open and collaborative mindset both within and outside your team
  • You must be eligible to work in the UK and be able to commute to our offices in Brighton 1 - 2 days per week.

Benefits

Learning and development

Keen and curious? From conferences to courses, you’ll be helped and cheered on to grow personally and professionally. In 2020 we have funded members of our team through Reforge, the world's leading development programme for experienced tech professionals

House and pet sitting

We actively encourage all of our team members to go Housesitting whenever possible, offering stipends and flexible working opportunities to help make this happen

Health and wellbeing

We offer the benefit of "Simply Health" to all employees, offering paid cover for a variety of medical appointments and treatments including Dental.

Tech and Tools

At TrustedHousesitters, there’s a laptop of your choice for every team member.

Food and furry friends

When we're in the office you can help yourself to fresh fruit, a fridge full of drinks, tasty breakfasts, team lunches, and cuddles from the four-pawed team members.

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