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Role: Front-End Engineer
Location: Leeds (Flexible Hybrid Working)
Hours: Full-time
Salary: £31,000 – £49,000

About us

Parallax is a digital consultancy with innovation at its core. We solve complex problems and build leading digital products for local and national SMEs, international clients and blue-chip corporations.

We transform ideas into opportunities, using cutting-edge user experience design, technical innovation, and our passion for digital excellence. We don’t shy away from projects that seem too out of reach, unachievable or even impossible. We welcome the challenge and deliver success.

We’re always questioning the norm and understand the risks of the latest and greatest and know how to deliver large digital projects at the forefront of technical possibility with a balanced approach to risk mitigation. Our clients trust us to deliver a transformative user experience married with technical excellence across various projects and industry sectors.

Our team features some of the most talented minds in the industry. We work hard to stay on top of the newest innovations and always strive to be the best at what we do.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Front-End, and working closely with the delivery team, you’ll be responsible for completing projects end-to-end independently, with occasional help from other engineers over a wide array of exciting projects & clients.

We use a wide range of tools & languages in our work, which we’re constantly reviewing, democratically, to ensure that we’re using the right tool for the job, rather than defaulting to the trends.

It’s important we’re writing performant, accessible, cross-platform, responsive front-end code. Testing is a large part of our workflow; our excellent QA engineers search for & ticket bugs and we review each others’ code to support each other. You’ll also have an opportunity to learn about automated testing so that bugs are found really efficiently and we can have a high level of confidence in the quality of the work we’re creating.

We understand the importance of supporting you in your role. We run workshops for collaborative learning, have professional development days scheduled each month and run quarterly hack days for you to learn & hone new skills. You’ll have the opportunity to attend events (or host them if you’d like!) and conferences and have the opportunity to pass your knowledge on to young engineers in our academy too.

About You

We’re looking for a bright, keen, motivated front-end web engineer with a strong skill level and a desire to learn new and existing web technologies.

The ideal candidate should be able to write clean, reusable code, and be keen to expand their skill set within a company that has been enjoying rapid growth for the past eight years.

Skills & Experience we’d like you to have:

• Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS, SASS

• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript

• Experience of ViteJS, Gulp or Webpack

• Experience integrating with server-side code (such as PHP) to produce dynamic pages

• Experience with Responsive Web Builds

• Experience using Figma / Sketch / Photoshop

• Experience working with version control systems such as Git, SVN

• Experience with cross-browser compatibility work

• Good understanding of Web Accessibility

• Experience with CSS frameworks like Tailwind

Things that’d blow us away:

• Experience with React.js

• Experience writing Unit tests/TDD

• Knowledge of testing tools like Ghost inspector/Cypress

• Knowledge of PHP and Laravel

Engineer processes, tools and libraries:

• Git repo for every project

• Vite, Gulp, Webpack

• Composer, npm, yarn

• SCSS, PostCSS, CSS/TailwindCSS

• ES6/ES2015

• Laravel, CakePHP

• Babel & Backbone

• Integrated bug tracking & build management

• Framework agnostic custom CMS – Statamic

Why Parallax

We’ve created a warm, welcoming & caring environment where everyone is challenged yet supported in their roles. We don’t pretend to know everything and are always open to good ideas – you really can make a difference here.

Benefits:

• Flexible & Hybrid/Remote Working – Not a morning person? Need to work around family? Not a problem. Work also needs to work for you, which is why we offer flexible start times and the opportunity to work hybrid or remotely.

• Company Bonus Scheme – Your contributions won’t go unnoticed and everyone shares in the profits pot equally, with no one missing out when we hit the company targets

• Top-tier healthcare – There’s nothing more important. We offer free top-tier Bupa Healthcare to everyone who works with us because health is something that shouldn’t be compromised.

• Opportunity to grow – A personalised progression route is clear from day dot. We host bi-weekly 1:1s, paid training days and quarterly hack days so, the sky’s the limit.

• Mental wellbeing – We don’t just offer mental health care, we encourage it & ensure our staff are well supported. We make sure a number of our staff are mental health first aid trained – we always put health first, it’s a Parallax priority.

• Equality, diversity & inclusivity committee – We actively encourage our employees to help us shape the way we work and grow.

• Top-notch technology – We all love a Nokia 3310, but there’s a time and a place. To create great things, you’ve got to be backed by great technology. In the office or remote, we’ll make sure you’re equipped to create!

• Social butterflies – What can we say… we’re a social bunch. Team lunches, art workshops, waterparks, games nights, quizzes, beers on a Friday, team events and the odd office Mario Kart battle, we’re always up for a social! We have a social committee who are always looking for new ideas and fun things we can do as a team

• Opportunity to grow – A personalised progression route is clear from day dot. We host bi-weekly 1:1s, paid training days and quarterly hack days so, the sky’s the limit.

• Matched pension – you pay into it, and we match your contribution on top of your normal salary

• Great working conditions with a relaxed and fun atmosphere

• Forward-thinking company with a positive attitude

• The chance to have a tangible effect on how the company progresses and grows

• 2 streaming services on us – whether you’re a Netflix binge-watcher or Spotify music maestro, we’ll cover the cost of these each month

Diversity Statement

We believe that our brand, people and behaviours are a powerful platform for social change in the tech industry. Our mission is to become the clear choice for all employees, candidates and clients, bringing out the best in people and giving everyone an equitable chance to find fulfilment in their careers. Parallax values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and encourages applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, abilities and backgrounds. If you are not 100% sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about what you would bring to this role.