Front End Engineer
The Role
We are offering an environment to a Front End Engineer, where your experience can make a real
difference. The work is challenging, but the collaboration between our teams is what makes it all
worthwhile. The Front End Engineer will offer direct input on the architecture and strategy for the
modernisation of our current product, whilst also supporting and promoting agile practices
especially Agile Scrum. Working with the product, production and content teams to develop user
interface concepts, we are looking for a Front End Engineer to innovate and advocate the use of the
latest technologies and technology trends with a focus on performance, compatibility, and security.
We make no apologies for the high standards that we set, which is why we need you to create
well-organized code ready for contributions from others on the team. This role requires an expert to
design and implement applications with support for independent client-side unit testing.
? Direct input on the architecture and strategy
? Develop user interface concepts
? Escalate impediments when appropriate
? Research, test and benchmark
? Design and implement applications
? Support and promote agile practices
? Analyse site and page speed
The Person
You will have a solid understanding of JavaScript, and broad knowledge of the web platform as a
whole, which must include HTTP, web performance, web security, frameworks. Ideally, you will have
a minimum of 6 years experience developing front-end applications and 2+ years of knowledge of
using React Native. You are currently working with an agile development team (SCRUM, Kanban,
etc) and bring a real drive, energy, and enthusiasm to your work. Your strong written and
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communication skills will complement your ability to engage in architectural discussions and drive
engineering practices towards excellence. You will also have knowledge of semantic markup with
HTML5 and CSS3, and a good understanding of at least one of: SCSS, SASS or Styled-Components.
Any Ed-Tech experience that you might be able to bring will be advantageous.
? 6/7 Years developing front-end applications using JavaScript
? Write clean, comprehensive and scalable code in React Native.
? A solid understanding of front-end architecture
? HTTP, web performance, web security, frameworks
? Ability in semantic markup with HTML5 and CSS3
? Understanding of at least one of SCSS, SASS or Styled-Components
? Experience with build tools
? TDD/BDD Experience
? 2/3+ Years experience using React Native
We Use
? Cordova
? React Native & ReactJS
? Angular
? Grunt, Bower, Webpack,
? Git
Benefits
? 25 days holiday
? Group Pension Scheme
? Flexible working
? Childcare Voucher Scheme
? Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
? Discounts on healthcare, dining, days out and more…
? Seminars on exercise and eating
? Workshops on health, wellbeing and cookery classes
? Fresh fruit, vegetables & healthy snacks, communal eating areas and monthly Birthday
celebrations
? Free access to Circus Streets’ suite of Digital Training Courses
? Access to a 3rd party learning platform
? Dedicated wellness manager - Think yoga, nutrition classes, bake-offs etc.
? Variety of clubs and activities - (incl. Run Club and Games Night to name a couple)
? Healthcare
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? Competitive basic salary
The Company
Circus Street is an exciting global business that has doubled in size for three consecutive years. We
work with the world's leading brands, up skilling their talent and helping them to build and develop
digital capability across their organisations at scale.
Specialising in digital marketing, we bring together a faculty of experts, cutting-edge educational
technology, interactivity and world-class animation to deliver an unconventional learning experience
which is both educational & entertaining.
Using interactive methods to embed learnings across a broad range of digital-related subjects, we
focus on delivering the very best learning experience for our clients, which include some of the
world’s most recognised brands in Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Haute Couture,
Finance & Advertising.
Each of our 50,000 users, across 157 countries, can attest to the transformative impact of the Circus
Street experience. The team in our UK headquarters in London is currently 90+ members strong,
with offices in NYC, Texas, Singapore and Sydney as well. We have grand ambitions to continue our
current growth trajectory.
Take a look at our recruitment video: https://vimeo.com/195957703
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As I just mentioned, please find spec attached for a pure FrontEnd Developer role.
Circus street is an E- learning company who assis clients with digital transformation
The purpose of this role is system migration. For obvious reasons, they are moving across from Angular to React.
Essentually they are looking for someone with good Front-End skills, coupled with React/Native React.
The setup of the team is flat and this role will report into the Head of engineering/CTO
They have engineers onsite as well as a remote office in Poland and in total 20 developers
They believe in flexible working and offer remote and WFH opportunities for a couple of days a week.
Let me know your thoughts.
Best
MC