Front End Engineer

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Full details of the job.

Vacancy Name

Vacancy Name Front End Engineer

Vacancy No

Vacancy No VN687

Location

Location London

Employment Type

Employment Type Perm

Basis

Basis Full Time

Fixed Term Duration

Overview

To design, build and deploy high quality solutions across Chambers products, platforms and applications, ensuring they meet engineering and QA standards.

To act as a point of expertise and ensuring standards and performance are met across the team and across projects.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Be part of a cross functional team and effectively create, optimise and maintain automated systems and processes across a given project(s) or technical domain.
• Coordinate engineering resources ensuring adherence to standards and effective delivery. Provide mentorship and guidance where required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team
• Contribute to the team's ability to make and deliver on their commitments
• Innovate and experiment with technology to deliver real business benefits.
• Regularly launch products and services based on your work and be an integral part of making these a success.
• Influence and challenge the technology team and stakeholders to understand the benefits, pros and cons of various technical options.
• Promote an innovative thinking process and encourage it in others.
• Assist in planning and undertake technical work on projects.
• Contribute in the development of technical specifications and architecture
• Test and debug various .NET applications
• Review and refactor code
• Deploy fully functional applications
• Document development and operational procedures
• Working within the agile framework at Chambers

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of Solid Front-End development experience predominately on Angular.
• Experience with CSS like Sass and LESS
• Solid understanding of frameworks such as Bootstrap 4 and Angular Material
• Solid experience using Angular, RxJs and NgRx
• Experience with NodeJS, Grunt, NPM
• Extensive experience consuming RESTful APIs in your applications
• Previous experience of building mobile and responsive design applications
• Experienced designing scalable software using recognised enterprise patterns
• Strong knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Good knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure (Azure/AWS)
• Strong at problem solving and able to design solutions, options and recommendations that meet a range of sometimes conflicting requirements.
• Able to implement key architectural outcomes, such as reusability, performance, separation of concerns, quality and integrity.

Person Specification

• A passionate software engineer with a history of driving his or her own technical and professional development.
• Worked in the media, publishing, research or a similar consumer focused industry. (Highly Desirable)
• An expert, with specific skills and knowledge relating to at least two of the following business domains:
  • Web technologies, including content management
  • Identity and Access control, Subscription mgmt. and payment platforms
  • Data applications, workflows and landscapes
• Communication - Able to clearly communicate complex technical subjects to business and technology stakeholders.
• Attention to Detail - focused on the finer details that make the difference.
• Delivery Focus - pragmatic and driven to get solutions live.
• Be comfortable and motivated to deliver on personal KPIs
• A Proactive attitude. A self-starter who seeks out opportunities for yourself and your team.
• Awareness of industry trends - such as challenges and best practices.
• Positive attitude - generating enthusiasm among team members
• Able to build strong personal relationships and trust.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to fostering and promoting an inclusive professional environment for all of our employees, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are integral values of Chambers and Partners and are key in our culture. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. This commitment applies across all of our employment policies and practices, from recruiting and hiring to training and career development. We support our employees through our internal INSPIRE committee with Executive Sponsors, Chairs and Ambassadors throughout the business promoting knowledge and effecting change. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.