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Senior Front-End Developer

Created on 08-02-2017
Location London

Description

Our Product Development department is looking for a Senior Front End Developer to join our team in London and play a key role in crafting our suite of digital products.

Working as part of the design team, which brings together UX/UI and front end development, this role will be supported by a team of UX/UI designers, product managers, developers and engineers – as well as other front end specialists – with whom you will be expected to collaborate extensively, and who will push you to achieve your very best.

Responsibilities:

  • Championing best practices to improve front-end functionality and user experience.
  • Influencing our strategy and technology choices for front end development.
  • Conducting code reviews and testing.
  • Pair programming with both front end team members and full stack developers.
  • Working closely with the UX/UI team to build out and extend our pattern library.
  • Mentoring other members of the front end team.
  • Setting deadlines and ensuring they are met.

Skills & Requirements:

  • Exceptionally proficient with React.js.
  • Comfortable interacting and managing stakeholders from your own and other teams.
  • Able to make considered architectural decisions.
  • Full knowledge of HTML5 and semantic mark-up.
  • CSS pre-processing experience with Sass.
  • Excellent JavaScript programming skills.
  • Experience with test driven development.
  • Working knowledge of accessibility issues.
  • Previous work with large scale responsive design projects.
  • Experience developing large, modular, applications.
  • Autonomous, self-motivated and capable of meeting deadlines.
  • Working knowledge of Webpack would be beneficial.
  • Familiarity with NodeJS and Express is desirable.
  • Understanding of performance issues would also be nice to have.

About You:

  • Previous experience in a Senior Front-End Developer role is a must.
  • A desire to learn and enhance your technical knowledge.
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
  • The ability to present ideas and concepts simply and clearly to other members of the product department.
  • A strong sense of ownership.
  • A continuing desire to keep up to date with industry trends to enable you to think of all possible solutions.
  • An understanding of product design and an appreciation of what good UX/UI design looks like.
  • A Github account with personal projects on the go.

About Us:

Acuris powers business growth for financial and professional services firms worldwide. Through events and subscription-based digital services, we provide unique, high-value content that helps our customers to make the best decisions based on the strongest evidence.

Our sector specialists and expert analysts interpret data and intelligence to extract new insights that create business opportunities for our customers. We’re trusted by many of the world’s principal advisory firms, investment banks, law firms, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporates, who rely our brands to help them understand specialist markets and find ideas for business development.

Founded in 2000, we’re a growing family of information brands united by common characteristics: sector expertise, analytical skill, proprietary data and solutions that are packaged for maximum value. You’ll find our 1,000 staff, including 500 specialist journalists and analysts, in 67 locations around the world.

Your responsibilities of the role will include the above but will not be limited.

Acuris is fully committed to a policy of non-discrimination and to promoting equality of opportunity in employment on grounds of merit, experience, skills and aptitude in order to maximise the full potential of both existing and prospective employees. Note to Recruitment agencies - We have a strict list of preferred agencies and not looking to renew the list for at least 18 months. Please do not contact our HR, Technology or other teams or send speculative CV’s. Thank you!

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