React Engineer

Our Team

MVF’s Technology team vision is to create the world's leading digital marketing platform that drives long-term client growth, and as a technology and data driven business we recognise the key role outstanding engineers play in helping us achieve it.

We expect much of MVF’s growth to come from great ideas our team members generate, with our collaborative approach accelerating their delivery. We strongly believe it is our team that can deliver this impact.

The engineering team delivers the unique set of bespoke products which have contributed to MVF being recently recognised as the UK's Fastest Growing Tech Firm.

The Role

You’ll bring your technical aptitude and engineering experience to bear on complex customer-facing problems, solving them alongside a team of talented colleagues to rapidly deliver the right solution.  You’ll have the opportunity to work across any and all of our platforms - we positively encourage our people to move teams and try new things - and you’ll work with the team to define and implement the future architecture for our products.

You can expect to be fully involved in the team from day one, including code reviews and daily standups,and you’ll be involved in discussions around delivery of current and upcoming team tasks. By the end of your first week you will have submitted your first pull request, successfully passed the code review process and put your first changes into production.

Responsibilities:

• Working with junior & senior team members to discuss, design and build software
• Deliver tested, working software in line with product requirements
• Occasionally working with business teams to identify & solve issues with existing software
• Deploying new versions of platforms into pre-live and/or live environments
• Engaging with the wider engineering and technical team to make MVF a better place to work

What Success Looks Like:

• Delivering working code on-time and to specification with a minimum of bugs
• Regular engagement with the product management team to identify and discuss solutions and features
• Participation in standups, planning sessions and other agile ceremonies with the engineering team

Our Ideal MVFer:

• Demonstrable experience of commercial development
• Lean/Agile environment exposure,  with continual improvement focus
• Demonstrably strong coding background in modern Front-End development and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React)
• Experience working with MySQL and PHP (or other OOP language)
• Experience of TDD/BDD - and an understanding of why they’re good
• Commercial awareness of business impact alongside engineering excellence
• Clear ability to prioritise tasks and drive them through to completion

Bonus points for...

• Experience of another development language and technology
• Exposure to architecture and/or AWS-based development

Our Story

MVF is an award-winning customer generation business supplying some of the world’s leading brands with high volumes of new customers in over 45 countries. In 2020 we were ranked 1st in the UK in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For List, and even won a special award for our commitment to our people’s learning and development.  

MVF topped the Sunday Times Tech Track as the fastest growing tech/media company in the UK, and we’ve been winning awards ever since; whether for growth, for excellence in marketing, or for innovation in other fields. At present, MVF is made up of 500+ amazing people in the UK and USA, and we’ll soon be launching our third regional office, this time in the APAC region.

Our focus on proprietary technology and multi-channel marketing expertise allows clients an unparalleled reach into new markets and channels, delivering engaged customers in real-time to fuel sustainable growth for some of the world’s most ambitious businesses.

We are on a mission to accelerate our clients’ growth by building the world’s most effective marketing platform through a passion for data, relentless innovation and the development of world class teams. We want you to help us get there!

Our MVF Values

Company culture is very important to us, and so we’re very proud to have been named the number 1 place to work in the UK in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For List 2020. We are constantly looking for ways to make MVF an even better environment for all our people. 

As well as providing a fun and inspiring workplace, we have clear values that inform everything we do; from who we hire, to the work we do, to which businesses we partner with.

 We don’t just talk about our values, we live them:

• Drive to be world class
• Work smart & deliver fast
• Love innovation
• Help others succeed
• Earn trust
• Inspire positivity