Senior Frontend Engineer

Overview

Salary banding: £70,000 - £85,000 dependent on experience

Working pattern: 2 days per week in the office

Location: London

About Our Engineering Team

As a business which has AI at its core, we need to have a reliable, scalable and secure real-time ML platform to deliver our product to customers. The Engineering team makes this happen. The team is UK-based, with a significant contingent in London, and is made up of pragmatic, curious and collaborative problem-solvers who are passionate about working with our Data Scientists to build state of the art AI products.

Our Software Engineers bring together a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds; what unites us is a desire to learn, a mastery of our discipline and strong technical prowess. Our engineers are responsible for all aspects of the software development lifecycle. You will get the opportunity to work across our entire stack building features which deliver AI capabilities to some of the biggest names in the insurance industry.

We are developing a modern real-time ML platform using technologies like React, Typescript, Python, PyTorch, Ray, k8s (helm + flux), Terraform, Postgres and Flink on AWS. We are very big fans of Infrastructure-as-Code and enjoy Agile practices. As a team, we're driven by a relentless focus on delivering real value to customers  embrace modern engineering practices such as automated testing, continuous monitoring, feature flags, and on-demand production-like environments to support frequent, reliable releases.

Our team is tackling several exciting challenges, including:

• Work with different stakeholders across the business like engineers, product, engagement team to understand a problem space within your area, propose solutions, and own the end to end delivery.
• Develop high-quality and responsive user interfaces for web applications using React, taking into consideration accessibility (WCAG), security and performance.
• Collaborate with designers to create visually appealing interfaces that meet user needs and brand guidelines
• Own and maintain specific parts of our frontend stack with best in class engineering practices.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration and end-to-end automated tests in the frontend and backend to serve frontend facing features.
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback and keep up to date with latest trends in the industry.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the processes and ways of working for the engineering team.
• Manage feature rollouts with multiple releases per day by utilising feature flags, metrics, logs and alerting.

• Technical proficiency
• Must haves:
• Proven track record of building customer-centric and high-performing web applications/SPAs
• Strong principles in Type Script and React
• Experience in react-query or Redux
• Strong grasp of Web fundamentals: HTML5, CSS, ES6+
• Proficient in Chrome Developer Tools or equivalent
• Experience with testing frameworks, such as Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Cypress, etc.
• Understanding of build tools such as Vite, Webpack, etc.
• Understanding of CI/CD platforms
• Nice to have:
• Proficiency in Python, Node.js or similar backend programming language.
• RDBMS Experience, ideally with Postgres.
• Experience building RESTful APIs (e.g: FastAPI)
• We also expect a solid understanding of modern software development life cycles. Code & tests, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, QA and production releases in an agile, rapidly changing environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and creatively
• Naturally collaborative, with excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

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