Frontend Team Lead

May 11

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PetLab Co.

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We’re PetLab Co. A company built for pet owners, by pet owners.

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Description

• Reporting to our Head of Engineering you’ll join a small but growing agile team of highly talented engineers working on building scalable solutions for our ecommerce platform. • You’ll be pivotal in driving exceptional quality products and user journeys by resourcing the various projects coming in. • We’re looking for someone who has had varying experiences in the frontend technology space, has knowledge on improving application performance and scalability and a great people leader. • We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. • This is an exciting opportunity to have a huge impact in rocket ship of a business with a real purpose! If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack! • Your day to day will look a little bit like this... ▪ Collaborating with the development and product teams and designing technical solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs; ▪ Ensuring the platform is performant, secure, scalable, robust, reliable and high quality, well tested code in the critical areas; ▪ Planning and evolving the technical architecture of the platform with the teams; Championing and sharing best practices to improve the team and code over time;

Requirements

• Significant experience working as an engineer on frontend technology (React and TypeScript); • At least 2-3 years leading front-end strategy and managing people • Excellent understanding and experience of programming languages and paradigms (object oriented, functional); • Integration experience via RESTful and GraphQL API’s (Shopify, BuilderIO etc...) for workflow and data; • Experience building highly scalable front end applications; • Excellent appreciation for UI/UX design; • Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment; • Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals;

Benefits

• Private Health Care through Vitality • Generous Annual Leave - 28 days + public and bank holidays • Flexible Working Hours – We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while travelling, or in the office! • Help@Hand – Employee Assistance Programme • Royal London Pension Scheme – We offer a workplace pension scheme with one of the UK’s leading providers of group pensions. With an employer contribution of 5%! • Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave – because time with new family members is important! • Puppy Therapy – working in partnership with Paws in Work to provide a boost of oxytocin twice a year. • Generous Learning and development budget – We always want you to keep learning. • Free breakfast, fruits and snacks – refuel and revitalise with free munchies in the office. • Working Environment – dogs are welcome! • Life Assurance – In the event of your death, while employed by us, your chosen beneficiaries will be provided with a tax-free lump sum equivalent of four times your basic salary. • Gympass – All in one subscription bringing you the largest selection of gyms, studios and apps. • Electric Vehicle Scheme – Employees sacrifice salary in return for a new electric car, typically saving 30-40% of costs through income and tax and national insurance. • Give Back Day – An extra day off in the year to volunteer plus a £50 contribution to your chosen charity. • Health Cash Benefit – We offer the bronze package with enables you to claim a certain amount of cashback when you pay for something that is health related, i.e dental.