Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)
About Sedex
More than 85,000 businesses across the world have made Sedex their trusted partner in creating a more socially and environmentally sustainable supply chain.
From our platform’s unrivalled data insights to our team’s expert guidance, Sedex makes it easy for companies to manage, assess and report on sustainability performance.
Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable.
Our Mission is to supply data-led insights, accessible tools and exceptional services for more sustainable supply chains. Our solutions enable companies to continuously improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and outcomes.
The role
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join one of our multi-functional product delivery teams. You will primarily work on our frontend React codebase but will be expected to contribute to the backend codebase (Kotlin) at times as well, with support from your team.
You will be a product-minded engineer, working together with the product manager and designer in your team to understand customer needs and write software to meet them.
You will work with the other engineers in your team and across the business to design and build maintainable, secure and reliable systems in an iterative fashion. You will have a senior voice in the growing front-end practice at Sedex.
You will be coding to a high standard in Typescript with an excellent and up-to-date knowledge of JS libraries and frameworks. You will create appealing, accessible user interfaces using React and CSS that allow our customers to engage with the Sedex platform in a delightful way. You will also be an excellent communicator with a willingness to document your approach and guide other engineers in adopting best practices.
You will contribute to a culture of DevOps and Continuous Delivery, where 10+ deploys to production per day are done in a safe, tested manner and the team owns the operability, performance and other non-functional requirements of the software it builds.
Key responsibilities
In the first 3 months you will:
- Familiarise yourself with the domain and systems within the scope of your team
- Understand the overall architectural landscape in which your systems live
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the production environment setup, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Familiarise with and begin monitoring the operational data and metrics from the production environment
- Become productive and begin owning and shipping features
- Build relationships cross-team and cross-function
- Make a positive impact to your team, establishing yourself as open and approachable, with a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon
- Understand and settle into the team processes and cycles, and start forming ideas on how they can be improved
- Develop a solid grounding in your understanding of the business and how it operates
Ongoing responsibilities:
- The design and implementation of innovative solutions and architectures through high-quality test-driven code
- The creation of web and mobile interfaces, re-useable components, libraries and data visualisations
- Contributions to backend tasks where required, with the support of your team
- The intelligent break-down of deliverables in a way that facilitates the constant and iterative delivery of value to our customers
- To pass the benefit of your knowledge and experience on to the team via code review, your contributions in planning activities, retrospectives, knowledge sharing sessions, etc
- Mentoring and coaching more junior / less experienced members of the team, role-modelling an open, positive, progressive, and results-orientated approach
- Identifying and articulating technical risk, tech-debt, and non-functional requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Championing of a data-driven approach, advocating for and educating around the metrics that we use, and routinely applying their interpretation in the planning of work
- Monitoring and supporting your code in production
- Contribution to the wider frontend community at Sedex
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
You should have:
- 5+ years’ experience (3+ at a senior level) of working in large tech teams in a frontend JavaScript role, using React or similar frontend frameworks to deliver software in an agile and test-driven manner
- Excellent knowledge of TypeScript
- Ability to work with UX design teams to implement attractive and accessible user interfaces for our customers
- Experience using and contributing to design systems
- Deep knowledge of automated testing at various levels and the use of TDD to drive your software design
- Excellent knowledge of frontend testing libraries and frameworks
- A good understanding of modern architectural patterns and designs
- Experience of monitoring applications in production
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD and a DevOps mindset
- Excellent communication skills, including writing technical documentation where required
- Experience of working with Agile methodologies
- A desire to work collaboratively with other engineers (pair-programming, mobbing)
- Experience coaching/mentoring less experienced colleagues
- A keen focus on creating customer value
- A results-oriented mindset
- A strong sense of accountability and ownership
- Positivity in the face of change, and an advocate for continuous evolution of the team and its capabilities
Bonus points for:
- Previous leadership experience
- Experience with backend-for-frontend architectures
- Experience with Bash, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
- Experience with data visualisation
- Experience with frontend monorepos and their tooling
Our culture
At Sedex, we are passionate about helping businesses become truly sustainable and ethical across their operations and supply chains. We believe that all people have the right to a safe workplace, where they are treated with respect and paid fair wages, free of harassment and discrimination. We strive to achieve these beliefs through inclusive behaviours that embody our values of being collaborative, responsible, transparent, quality driven and committed to service excellence.
We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and thrive at work - in every country, in everything we do, every day. We are focused on providing a culture characterised by inclusive everyday behaviours built on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all its forms.
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- Department
- Technology, Engineering and Infrastructure
- Locations
- UK
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)
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