React Job: Principal Front End Engineer

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Do you want to work at the leading edge of JavaScript technologies? Do you have the drive to build great products for a world class organisation? We're looking for a Software Engineer with JavaScript and React skills to help deliver the roadmap for Sage Business Cloud - take a look at https://www.sage.com/en-gb/sage-business-cloud/accounting/.

You will be working within a focused team of around 7-8 developers and 3-4 QA, on new and existing customer facing products, utilising Sage’s open source library of React components - Carbon (https://carbon.sage.com).

Your first 12 months will look something like this:

Setup and start developing on your new MacBook

Build and contribute to an application with our very own component library (Carbon), built on ReactJS:

https://carbon.sage.com/

Enjoy the freedom to work on projects you choose on the last Friday of each month. Innovate or improve existing code or processes. It’s up to you!

Continue your self-development – via dedicated learning days

We operate a Flex 0-5 work pattern meaning you can choose how many days you want to come into the office - from 0 to 5 days per week. We are an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Interviews take place over Microsoft Teams. If that doesn’t work for you, we’ll do everything we can to support and make any necessary adjustments. We want you to be comfortable and perform at your best.

What we’re looking for:

Excellent commercial JavaScript experience

Excellent commercial React experience

A good understanding of testing web applications - knowledge of Jest would be advantageous

An understanding of Typescript

An understanding of state management

A great team player, communicator and collaborator - as well as your own contributions to the codebase, we encourage engineers to support more junior colleagues within the team

Experience with Agile Development and SCRUM

You will:

Provide technical leadership for a team of developers - offering guidance on best practice, mentoring/coaching, improving team delivery

Work alongside the Team Leader on agreed projects to support the team’s roadmap - identifying and mitigating items that may impact the team’s delivery

Coordinate closely with Architecture to ensure high quality solutions are delivered following agreed processes

Own technical work streams - delivering at pace, researching and solving complex problems

Identify and drive opportunities outside of the immediate team - advise, or share best practice; Influence departmental strategy; improve delivery

Successfully develop, deliver and maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)

Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable

Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle

Contribute to quality activities, incl. peer reviews of estimates, designs and code

Investigate and resolve defects/bugs found in pre-production or production environments

Be an active and enthusiastic team player, working effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments

Be committed to team success and positive team dynamics

Work cross-functionally with various Sage teams: product management, QA/XD, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results

Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services

Update job knowledge by studying current development tools & techniques

Why you would love to join us:

You’ll work alongside engineers who really enjoy working together and including and supporting new team members in their teams

We offer a range of benefits that complement a competitive salary, including share save scheme, bonus opportunities and a contribution pension plan

All colleagues get 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days

5 days for colleagues to learn or develop skills and behaviours linked to their personal or career development.

The option to flex start and end times during the week and hybrid working

Make a difference to communities we live and work in, with your 5 volunteer days every year for philanthropic activity

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