Front End Developer

Front End Developer - React

Job Req ID: 13999 Posting Date: 12 May 2023 Function: Software Engineering Location: Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom Salary: Competitive with Benefits Why this job matters It is an exciting time to join the Wholesale Engineering team as we work to retire our legacy tech stack and begin working on a digital transformation. As a frontend specialist, you will be joining a growing team of developers and QA Engineers in an organisation with fantastic career growth opportunities. You’ll be part React power team who will be delivering a React/NextJS application that will give our Wholesale resellers the tools they need to buy and sell our products and services.
You will play an integral part in delivering and bringing to life a green field react application with a mission to deliver the best user experience. You will need to consume restful APIs for the business data and headerless APIs for the CMS content. We are at the early stages of our digital transformation within Wholesale, and with your help, we will build a multi-phase user experience. You will be required to overcome authentication challenges and understand and consider the wider end-to-end user experience. You will need to be proficient in reading and writing technical documentation and working with others across BT to gather knowledge, request changes or new APIs from other delivery units and work closely with designers. What you’ll be doing

• The Software Engineering Specialist independently executes advanced activities to deliver the engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT’s commercial strategy through cross functional business partnering and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.
• Delivers the engineering strategy in ensuring the engineering organisation’s ability to deliver high quality on time and on budget and implementing means of bringing measurability as well as predictability to the engineering organisation’s capabilities
• Executes complex technical decisions, technology choices and architecture for a wide range of high-performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation
• Resolves complex and strategic issues using advanced technical knowledge, across wider industry and/or specific sectors, and develops bespoke or leading edge, technically complex solutions (e.g., relating to new, un-tested technology and/or large-scale impact of products)
• Executes and contributes to the development of the ambitious and compelling technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering team, and partner teams
• Executes engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement
• Drives an engineering culture that fosters innovation and creativity while delivering high-quality products with predictability and reliability
• Writes, tests and reviews code, refining and rewriting as necessary independently and communicates to engineering professionals and colleagues involved in the project
• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting when necessary
• Plays a positive contributor role in the software engineering organisation, implementing the technical vision and the pursuit of innovations regarding new technologies, platforms and applications
• Evaluates, implements and maintain high-quality tools and complex automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity
• Implements new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems
• Researches, designs and writes new software and performs deep dive data analysis, to identify issues and implement ways to improve working processes within the area of software engineering responsibility, such as avoiding and reducing technical debt
• Mentors other software engineers, helping to improve the team’s abilities by acting as a technical resource
• Champions, continuously develop and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in software engineering
  

Skills

• Agile Development
• Application Development
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Project/Programme Management
• Software Testing
• Microservices/Service-Oriented Architecture
• Database Design/Development
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration
• Cloud Computing
• APIs/Web Service Integration
• IT Security Management
• Algorithm Design
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• Debugging
• Leading inclusively
• Owning outcomes
• Delivering for the customer
• Commercially savvy
• Growth mindset
• Building for the future
• Creating Restful APIs
• AEM Experience
• NX Monorepo
• Storybooks

Our leadership standards Looking in:
Leading inclusively
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.