Frontend Engineer at PetLab

Job Description:

Petlab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in 2018, Petlab Co. is currently on track to drive over $120m in sales in 2022 without any external funding. They have a loyal community of over 120,000+ pets and over 250 thousand owners have had their lives positively impacted by innovative Petlab Co. products. Petlab Co. is a vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-centric team who value and reward high performing players. It is an ideal place for a candidate who is ambitious, hardworking, loves animals, is looking to rapidly progress their career, and would enjoy working in a vibrant environment with smart co-workers and friendly office dogs!

A Day In The Life…

Reporting to our Lead Frontend Engineer you’ll join a small but growing agile team of highly talented engineers working on building scalable solutions for our ecommerce platfrom. You’ll be pivotal in keeping our customer experience world class when it comes to delivery and design. We’re looking for someone who has had varying experiences in the frontend technology space and has knowledge on improving application performance and scalability.

We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. This is an exciting opportunity to have a huge impact in rocket ship of a business with a real purpose! If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!

Your day to day will look a little bit like this…

• Collaborate with team lead on the Petlab products to understand the context behind what you’re building;
• Collaborating with tech lead and designing technical solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs;
• Ensuring the platform is performant, secure, scalable, robust, reliable and high quality, well tested code in the critical areas;
• Planning and evolving the technical architecture of the platform with the teams;
• Championing and sharing best practices to improve the team and code over time.

What You Need…

• 2+ years working as an engineer on frontend technology (React and JavaScript);
• Excellent understanding and experience of programming languages and paradigms (object oriented, functional);
• Integration experience via RESTful and GraphQL API’s (Shopify, BuilderIO etc...) for workflow and data;
• Experience building quality, and highly scalable front end applications;
• Excellent appreciation for UI/UX design;
• Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment;
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals.

Desirable:

• Experience in Next.js and Gatsby;
• Experience with CMS like builder.io and Gatbsy.js for templating;
• Experience working with the eCommerce domain and mobile application architecture;
• Experience with CRM systems and marketing automation, payment processing and customer engagement;
• Experience with AWS Lambda;

Company Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave- 28 days + public and bank holidays
• Flexible Working Hours– We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while travelling, or in the office!
• Help@Hand– Employee Assistance Programme
• Royal London Pension Scheme– We offer a workplace pension scheme with one of the UK’s leading providers of group pensions. With an employer contribution of 5%!
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave– because time with new family members is important!
• Puppy Therapy– working in partnership with Paws in Work to provide a boost of oxytocintwice a year.
• Generous Learning and development budget –We always wasn’t you to keep learning.
• Free breakfast, fruits and snacks– refuel and revitalise with free munchies in the office.
• Working Environment– dogs are welcome!
• Life Assurance– In the event of your death, while employed by us, your chosen beneficiaries will be provided with a tax-free lump sum equivalent of four times your basic salary.
• Gympass– All in one subscription bringing you the largest selection of gyms, studios and apps.
• Electric Vehicle Scheme– Employees sacrifice salary in return for a new electric car, typically saving 30-40% of costs through income and tax and national insurance.
• Give Back Day– An extra day off in the year to volunteer plus a £50 contribution to your chosen charity.
• Health Cash Benefit– We offer the bronze package with enables you to claim a certain amount of cashback when you pay for something that is health related, i.e dental.

Interview Process

• Call with Recruiter
• Short call with Lead Engineer
• Test
• Short call with Head of Engineering