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Join Foodsteps, a vibrant food sustainability start-up, and lend your expertise on the front end development to combat global environmental issues.
Overview
Salary
£60000 - £70000
Location
London, UK - Hybrid
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary: Foodsteps is a dynamic start-up committed to transforming food businesses by assisting them in measuring, reducing and communicating their environmental impact. The company operates in a domain that is the leading contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, underscoring the vast potential and impact that this role offers.
Role Summary:
- Guide other engineers in the best practices for front end development.
- Work closely with the product designer to streamline our front end design and development process.
- Influence the best practice processes, design and broader pattern definitions across the product team.
- Manage the technical design, implementation, testing, release, and support with a focus on React front end.
- Work with in-house software engineers, product managers, product designers, and a small team of remote contractors in a sprint and release regime.
Role Requirements:
- Proven experience in crafting complex user interfaces with React and Typescript.
- Knowledge in building custom data visualisations using libraries such as D3 or chartjs.
- Proficiency in CSS, automated front-end testing.
- Experience in creating and maintaining libraries of custom components in line with UI design artefacts created in Figma.
- Some experience in building software applications in Python, developing APIs, using GraphQL and REST, and back end business logic.
Benefits:
- 27 paid holiday days, flexible working, and climate perks travel days.
About Foodsteps We are a food sustainability start-up with a mission to help food businesses measure, reduce and communicate their environmental impact. Food systems account for around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading driver of biodiversity loss, so immediate positive change in this area is crucial if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences from the ecological crisis.
The Role You will define and mentor other engineers in front end development best practices and patterns and collaborate with our product designer to define and optimise our front end design and development processes with a particular focus on creating reusable components from Figma designs. You will influence and define best practice process, design and patterns more broadly across our product team and product. As an experienced software engineer you will be responsible for the technical design, implementation, testing, release and support of our application with a particular focus on our React front end. You will be working closely with our small team of in house software engineers, product manager and product designer, as well as a small team of remote contractors. As part of this team you will work in fortnightly sprints and release to production several times a sprint. Working very closely with teams across the company, you will enjoy working as part of a broader cross-functional team.
Experience and Skills You have significant experience building complex user interfaces using React and Typescript. You have experience building custom data visualisations, making use of libraries such as D3 or chartjs, and are proficient with CSS. You are well versed in React best practices and design patterns such as component composition, hooks and providers. You have experience setting up, developing and maintaining libraries of custom components that are closely aligned with UI design artefacts created in Figma. You are proficient in automated front-end testing. You have some experience building software applications in Python, developing APIs, using GraphQL and REST, and back end business logic when required.
Benefits Full range of benefits, including 27 paid holiday days, flexible working, and climate perks travel days.
