Senior React Developer
Who We Are:
Abel & Cole has pioneered organic, ethical and sustainable food delivery for over 30 years. Doing things better is our bread and butter; from saving over 60 million plastic bags by using reusable boxes for our food deliveries, to finding alternatives to plastic long before it hit the headlines. We are forever challenging ourselves to find the most positive way to do business and want everyone to eat organic because it’s one way to save the future. It’s these values that enabled us to become B Corp certified; an optional audit we’ve gone through to recognise how we put people and planet before profit, as well as help us find room for further improvement.
We’re looking for more people to join our team of almost 600, to share our passion for doing the right thing even bigger and better than we do already. In a fast paced and competitive market, we know it’s our people who make the difference. We’ve learnt how important it is to recognise, develop and promote from within; and that trusting people lets them come up with the best ideas and that helps our entrepreneurial spirit to thrive.
Summary:
We’re seeking a Senior React Developer to help with the exciting project to redevelop our website. The successful candidate will be working to the highest professional standards to ensure that our website continues to engage customers and promote the continued success of the company.
The role is an integral part of the cross-discipline web team and will work closely with the current agile team to move and improve the site.
We are looking for someone who is open to developing and mentoring other developers in the team to build their skills, enabling them to quickly overcome problems and figure out the best way to use our new stack. We want someone who is comfortable to share and lead with their knowledge and experience.
As a Team we are committed to delivering quality products, whilst having fun and communicating honestly and openly. We embrace a fail-fast approach, learning from our mistakes and support each other through a flexible and social working environment. We foster trust, honesty, and a strong team bond. We always put the customer first.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Support the Web Lead with the redevelopment of our ecommerce Website to modern technologies
• Grow existing Web Developers as they develop our new Website, with your insight into how to address problems on the journey to our new Web platform.
• Engage with the Product Owner and developers to Translate business needs into backlog items
• Support the Product Owner in meeting business goals, analytics and SEO
• Design scalable and extensible web applications which are easy to test, debug and maintain
• Write and maintain unit tests
• Work closely with the scrum team members responsible for testing to guarantee suitable test coverage and identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt
• Maintain the performance, accessibility, security and responsiveness of website and identify opportunities to improve processes and re-factor
• Support sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, striving to continuously improve the team, its processes and engineering practices
• Identify opportunities for future development, contribute and lead discussions, conduct research into products and technologies that will enhance the function of the website and give insight on the future direction out our technologies
About You:
• Extensive experience of developing secure, scalable applications in a fun, fast-paced Agile environment
• Expert in Next.js, React.js frameworks
• Good knowledge of HTML, CSS, Typescript and JavaScript
• Experience in coding responsive websites for a range of devices and browsers
• Strong knowledge of service-based enterprise architecture design and best practice, and a full understanding of RESTful principles
• Business analysis and requirements gathering skills, an ability to translate conversations into user stories or technical specs
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills. The ability to be clear, concise and accurate. Capable of interacting and building relationships with technical and non-technical audiences ranging from director to operative
• Experience of leading and developing people and technical efforts
Desirable:
• Experience of continuous integration pipeline and unit test automation
• Cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP)
• Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Google Optimize (A/B Testing)
Behaviours:
• Good agile leadership qualities, curious, collaborative and open to new challenges
• Skilled in helping teams arrive at decisions
• Desire to develop personal skills through knowledge of new technologies, development methodologies, techniques and industry developments
• Self-managing can work to deadlines and standards with a minimum of supervision
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the initiative to find innovative technical solutions
• Thrives working in a team environment, putting the team and the team goals first
This is a Remote based role however there may be occasions when you need to attend our Wimbledon office for meetings or events.
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Abel & Cole promotes equal opportunities for all employees. We want our employees to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. Members of staff are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying – a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
To support Abel & Cole’s commitment to inclusion and diversity, we ask that you remove all personal details from your CV. This includes removal of home address, D.O.B and place of education.
