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Footasylum career site
E-Commerce · Head Office

Front End Developer

Description

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Ecommerce UX & Delivery team, across one of the most exciting retail businesses in the UK. Reporting into the Head of UX and Digital Delivery you will be responsible for delivering our exciting digital roadmap projects and provide technical support for Web and App requests. You’ll be collaborating with a well-established UX and Front-End Development delivery team with experience in delivering in a fast-paced agile environment, consisting of UX researchers, designers, developers, data analysts, UX executives and project managers.

Responsibilities

  • You will execute our technical roadmap developments, advanced experiments and experiences using HTML5, SCSS, Tailwind, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, TypeScript and RESTful APIs.
  • You will collaborate with our existing development team to support large scale developments, continuous improvements, and day-to-day updates.
  • You will build reusable components and libraries for future use, following best practices and coding standards.
  • You will work exceptionally close with our UX team to deliver technical requirements for our web projects, experimentation and personalisation roadmap.
  • You will work with design systems like Figma to ensure consistent and user-friendly UI/UX.
  • You will develop key landing and campaign pages.
  • You will innovate and maintain our headless responsive modules.
  • You will use our New CMS to develop, build and improve content modules.
  • You will work with our Technical Analyst to develop and support with tracking optimisations.
  • You will coordinate with our digital platform and hosting suppliers to assist with technical tickets.
  • You will provide technical support across all teams with Web & App requests.
  • You will use extensive QA of technical projects prior to release.
  • You will liaise with our IT & infrastructure teams to deliver combined projects.
  • You will participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and ensure that solutions are secure, scalable and performant.
  • You will research current best practices and make recommendations for improvements and technical innovation.
  • You will also have the opportunity to mentor Junior Front-End Developers.

You’ll also bring:

  • 3+ years of professional experience in large-scale front-end software development in an agile environment.
  • Proficient in React.js & TypeScript, with a solid understanding of core concepts, writing modular, maintainable, re-usable and well-typed code.
  • Familiarity with Node.js, especially for server-side rendering and backend communication.
  • Experience in integrating RESTful APIs into Frontend projects & applications.
  • Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, and personalisation software such as Monetate.
  • Proven experience with version control workflows & CI/CD platforms (Buddy.works or similar).
  • Proficient in implementing responsive, cross-browser UI’s and optimising development for maximum performance across devices.
  • Excellent ecommerce knowledge with a strong understanding of web standards, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to overcome development and technical issues.
  • Strong sense of code quality and contributing to coding standards.
  • Ability to recommend and communicate ideas.
  • Ability to react quickly based on data or trading information.
  • Able to work independently and as part of an extremely collaborative team.

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills.

Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about designing happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that.

Department
E-Commerce
Role
Front End Developer
Locations
Head Office

Head Office

Life at Footasylum

No two days are the same. We encourage autonomy, creativity, imagination and ambition to be fuelled by the core principle that we create an environment for our colleagues to be successful. People who are motivated by being part of a successful team, whilst having the opportunity to express their passion and make a difference are who we want. We have a high performing, energetic environment and we want you to be a part of it. Sound like something you want to be a part of? Check out our latest Footasylum jobs today.

About Footasylum

 

We’ve been the go-to for the freshest trainer and apparel releases since 2005, whether it’s big name brands or emerging bedroom labels we’ve got it covered. With over 65 high-street stores across the UK, we’re taking over the high street one step at a time.

 

 

Founded in 2005
Co-workers 2500
E-Commerce · Head Office

Front End Developer

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