Senior Frontend Developer

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As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will have the opportunity to build and lead solutions that engage millions of sports fans worldwide. Working with a wide range of data sources and frontend technologies, building custom UI experiences for sports fans. You will manage, lead and motivate other Developers, as well as progress your own skills and expertise along the way, driving new technologies and techniques across the team. At Pulselive, we pride ourselves on providing a collaborative environment that ensures we produce leading products across web and native applications.

You are expected to be an effective Tech Lead within a delivery squad, demonstrating good communication skills across all disciplines and parties involved in delivering a project, both internally and externally. You can line manage other Developers if you have the relevant desire and skills to do so.

Key Responsibilities

• Scoping and managing project tasks from requirements

• Assigning and tracking project tasks on behalf of other members of the development team

• Identifying and managing dependencies within a project, across disciplines and externally

• Managing code releases to all environments (Dev, Test, Staging and Prod)

• Taking ownership of all progress within a project across the squad, tracking and communicating in own area of expertise

• Producing code to a high standard that not only functions correctly but can be understood and extended by other members of the team

• Showing good attention to detail in the final product, taking care and pride in what is produced, ensuring others do the same

• Communicating clearly to ensure the best possible solutions are built

• Developing own skills to get as many aspects to an expert level, as possible

• Sharing of ideas and techniques across the development team, contributing to and learning from the team as a whole

Possible extended responsibilities

• Line management of Developers ( no more than 1 day a week ). This includes performance reviews, time management, ongoing role support etc. 

• Leading and motivating other members of the development team to fulfil their roles effectively, helping to develop their skills and knowledge

• Act as a Chapter Lead across own Chapter (area of expertise)

• Identify and establish technical based Guilds/Working Groups to support the progression of development techniques and technology

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Expert knowledge of

• HTML and CSS

• Browser and device testing (inc. debugging)

• Responsive web builds

• SASS development

• Javascript (vanilla essential)

• Gulp workflow usage 

• GIT usage and code management

• JSON data structures

• JIRA usage for task/ticket management

• Documenting front-end solutions and code

• Using APIs to GET and POST data

Competent with

• ES6/7

• Integrating with and using third party libraries/applications (e.g. video providers)

• NPM and Bower dependency management

• Gulp workflow setup

• Web performance

• Web accessibility

• SEO considerations and techniques

Benefits

At Pulselive we truly value our team and have developed our approach to ensure you are not only rewarded for your contribution but have access to unique benefits along with a positive approach to wellness.  We want to ensure that your career, health and well-being are of the utmost importance at all times.

Benefits & Wellness 

• Flexible & Remote Working 

• Buy and Sell Annual Leave 

• Pension Scheme 

• Sporting Events and Tickets 

• Health & Wellness Activities 

• Complimentary Headspace Access

• Annual Wellness Contribution 

• Mobile Phone Contribution 

• Sony Discounts