Senior Front End Engineer

 

Main characteristics

Location

Reading, Berkshire

Company

Yell

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced engineer specialising in front-end development to join our passionate, diverse, and ambitious group of engineers to help make our mission a success.This is a unique opportunity to be part of one of our multi-disciplinary product teams who create valuable digital products for our customers helping their businesses grow.

For 50 years Yell has specialised in helping small and medium sized businesses find and connect with customers. Were not just any marketing agency. We combine cutting edge technology with our decades of local marketing experience to help businesses achieve their ambitions, and we do it all by getting to know our customers, and their businesses.

Our values; Customer, Collaboration, Ownership , Courage , Integrity really matter and how we work is just as important as what we do.

Responsibilities as a Senior Front End Engineer:

* Join a multi-disciplined team providing much needed front-end experience, building solutions mainly using Vue alongside webpack, NodeJS, SASS, Jest, and Cypress

* Be involved in solutions from problem discovery through to delivery and continued evaluation.

* Play a key role in our evolving Design System.

* Share your experience/knowledge/interests with our other front-end engineers through participation in our guild.

* Contribute to wider product and engineering workshops as we continually strive to make improvements to our practices

Skills we would like you to have :

* Experienced engineer with a passion for front-end development that has worked in a product-led and agile environment, identifying, and developing solutions to address real customer problems.

* In-depth understanding of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML based on proven commercial experience and have knowledge of how to develop high performance, accessible, and SEO friendly front-ends.

* Customer Centric, providing highly valued quality products that are easy to use.Use engineer solutions that keep their data safe and protect the services they rely on from malicious attack.

* Strong analytic and problem-solving skills and know how to build solutions that provide insightful data for both the growth and support of your systems.

* Comfortable working in an empowered team. You believe in the team ethos of succeeding, or failing, as one. You are happy to get stuck in and do whats needed to deliver on the goals you have committed to as a team.

* A keen eye for identifying delivery efficiency savings, you understand what good looks like, having experience of practices such as TDD, test automation, and CI/CD. You are keen to work with your team to improve ways of working, helping to increase throughput.

* A passion for knowledge to allow you keep up to date with front-end technologies and the latest trends in your field and enjoy the opportunity to explore and bring ideas to your teams and the wider engineering community for consideration.

* We are currently evaluating the use of Flutter for part of our digital solution and so any experience in this area would be advantageous.

This is a Hybrid role with a couple of days based our Reading Office a week but we can be flexible on this.

If you feel you meet some but not all of the above criteria, we still encourage you to apply as we review each application on its own merit.

What can Yell offer you?

Competitive Salary
Annual Bonus
Life Assurance 3 x Salary
Retailer Discounts and other benefits .
Employee Assistance programme
Reward and Recognition scheme, The Yell Hartley Awards
Aspire programme - access to our career development portal

Here at Yell are embracing diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all colleagues to feel empowered to perform their best work with us. This is integral for our mission to Grow, Evolve & Transform.

We're an equal opportunity employer.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
We seek people from diverse backgrounds to join us and become part of an inclusive company where you can feel like you truly belong.

We look forward to hearing from you