Location

This role is based at our Birmingham Snowhill office. We have a hybrid working model which is 3 days together, 2 days wherever.

Why this job matters

As a Senior Front End Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in our team by contributing to the development and maintenance of a modern design system of reusable components. Working with the Lead Engineer, your work will be essential in our growing journey in Consumer Electronics. This is an exciting time to join our expanding tribe, with the chance to work on new initiatives with the latest technologies.
 
Working alongside dedicated developers who prioritize accessibility and inclusiveness, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the experience of our customers. Collaborating closely with application teams, you'll contribute to the development of a business-wide solution aimed at enhancing consistency, quality, and time-to-market for BT's web applications.
 
Your contributions will be instrumental in enabling growth of the EE brand.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain applications using front end technologies
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to define project requirements and translate them into functional applications
• Optimise application performance and ensure responsiveness for customers
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and industry standards
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, and propose solutions to improve application performance and customer experience
• Collaborate closely with other teams to deliver high-quality and innovative applications
• Along with the Lead Engineer, help to coach more junior members of the team, ensuring high quality standards of code, ways of working and delivery

Your skills

Required

• Extensive experience using React JS / TypeScript / JavaScript 
• Performance optimisation
• Analytics and observability, e.g., dynatrace
• Unit testing
• Experience of supporting and troubleshooting live customer applications
• Knowledge of front-end architecture and patterns

Bonus skills

• Next.js
• GraphQL API understanding
• Integration testing
• Supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Have led or have a desire to mentor more junior software engineers whilst being in a senior position
   

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
- Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
- Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
- Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
- Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
- Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
- Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Direct share scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
• 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.