Role Purpose: A Frontend Engineer delivers high quality software, on schedule, and in alignment with the CarTrawler business strategy. Works in a culture of high performance and enthusiasm, champions and contributes to our software development practices, and maintains an environment of achievement, reward and respect. Works closely with their Engineering Manager and Product Manager to ensure we deliver car rental booking technology of the highest standard that meets the requirements of both our car-booking customer, and of our travel partners.Reporting to: Engineering Manager
Main accountabilities and key tasks:
Working with Engineering, Product and IT to understand business requirements.
Collaborating with peers to break down requirements into clear technical tasks.
Taking ownership for delivering technical tasks with high quality, performant code and tests.
Working with your team to meet project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
Developing an understanding of the architecture of multiple products, and contributing to design discussions and decision-making
Providing constructive feedback to all members of the team through timely code reviews.
Maintaining up-to-date technical skills, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
Critical Interfaces:
Engineering Management to ensure delivery of quality software on schedule.
Product and Design to ensure alignment on meeting product visions and goals.
External partners to assist integration of CarTrawler software solutions.
IT to ensure successful operation of our software solutions.
Knowledge and Experience:
3+ years experience of Javascript frameworks and ES6 with an emphasis on React
Experience in web mark-up, including HTML5 and CSS3.
Experience developing single-page web applications using Typescript.
A good understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
Ability to write modular, scalable, and clean code.
Comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary team while taking ownership of own tasks
Experience working in an Agile development environment
Experience building web applications for both desktop & mobile.
Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance.
Knowledge of version control tools like Git or similar.
Experience writing unit and integration tests using frameworks such as Jest.
Experience with automated testing.
Familiar with Docker, Jenkins and other CI/CD tooling.
Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Webpack.
CSS compiler knowledge (E.g. Sass)
Good understanding of RESTful APIs
Experience of MongoDB, GraphQL would be beneficial
Frontend Developer