Senior Front-End Engineer at MMT Digital

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Front End Engineer at MMT Digital, you’ll be driving the development of projects, with a focus on JavaScript and ensuring a high level of technical quality in the delivery of trusted solutions to a diverse range of clients. You’ll have the opportunity to support and mentor engineers to ensure best practices and governance are applied throughout development.

As part of your role, you’ll perform code reviews/pull requests with the team and work with Technical Architects and Product Owners to define the technical strategy and vision for the projects you are working on. Other things you could be doing include helping product owners refine user stories on agile projects; liaising with UX teams to ensure clean, creative UX is provided to teams; inputting towards the best practices, community and vision of the wider Engineering team at MMT.

As part of your application for this role, to accompany your CV we will be asking you to describe, in a few paragraphs, the impact you believe a Senior Engineer should have within a development team.

Qualifications:

• Considerable commercial experience as a Front End Engineer
• Great experience working with Modern front-end frameworks in a professional capacity (e.g. React, Vue)
• Strong JavaScript skills
• Be fluent in HTML,CSS, and related frameworks such as SASS or Styled Components
• Good knowledge of responsive web design
• Experience with writing unit tests using frameworks like Jest
• Experience with Git or other source control systems
• Hands-on experience with relevant CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins) - - - Knowledge of build tools such as Webpack, Rollup, Parcel etc
• Excellent people skills; demonstrably team- and client-focused
• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Knowledge of building sites that meet WCAG accessibility standards

Nice to have:

• Experience of leading Development teams and/or of line management of others
• Experience working hands-on with AWS, Azure or similar cloud infrastructure
• Knowledge of component libraries such as Storybook or Styleguidist
• Some CMS experience is an advantage e.g. Contentful or Kentico
• Exposure to some back-end technologies (.NET, Java, Node, PHP, Go)
• Demonstrable experience of Open Source contributions made to the industry
• Commercial experience of working in an agency setting

Company Benefits

• Annual salary review and company bonus scheme
• Pension
• Flexi Working
• Paid volunteering day, and support for fundraising activities
• Cycle to work scheme and a personal carbon offsetting salary sacrifice scheme
• An environment which supports and celebrates your personal development and growth
• The opportunity to join internal groups which foster innovation and technical - excellence
• Lunch&Learns, Brown Bag sessions and fortnightly ‘Studious Hermit’ meetings where we - come together to discuss interesting topics
• Magic moments – a personalised peer to peer reward recognition scheme
• Access to Health Assured, our free Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay, along with a hamper to - celebrate your new arrival
• Access to a range of rewards and benefits through the Digital Perks platform
• A social events committee that organise social events throughout the year

Interview Process

• TBC