Front End Engineer - React, Typescript, JS, HTML, CSS/SCSS:

Who we are looking for:

Care about responsive, accessible, performant, mobile-first digital customer experiences? We are looking for a Front End Engineer with over 3+ years of experience within a digital/web environment, operating in a solid professional level already, with aspirations of progressing to senior capability in the next year(s).

You'll be passionate about creating sustainable, adaptable, responsive, accessible, and performant web/customer experiences through core front-end skills like HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (vanilla), supported by capabilities in React, Typescript, CSS Modules, and Unit Testing with Jest & React Testing Library, plus awareness/experience using Design Tokens & Atomic Design principles in development.

You are pragmatic in your approach, balancing technical and product needs to deliver quality, testable, adaptable solutions as part of a continuously improving product team & client relationship.

You will have a good understanding of design, UI & UX principles, and designing for users not screens is a term you are fully tuned into. You believe design & UX are skills every front-end developer should be passionate about and your approach to working with designers is collaborative, fluid, and centres on the creation and implementation of thorough design system principles and reusability for scalability. You do much more than just lift and shift flat designs to the browser.

Purpose of the role:

Working collaboratively with designers, engineers, QA and other digital professionals with-in a product team, you’ll create world-class products and services that meet the needs of real people, and equally, provide commercially successful solutions for our clients.

Working in partnership with peers and client, you will propose and explain solution options, ultimately implementing sustainable and adaptable technical solutions inline with EM Code’s technical standards and processes.

From problem through to solution, our teams aim to break work down to small manageable items so they can be understood, solved, planned, implemented and iterated more reliably. We do this so our teams are more repeatable and transparent with our client budgets.

Who you’ll work with

We have multiple product delivery teams at EM Code, each team is a multi-disciplined mix of digital experts across Product Strategy, Delivery Management, UX Research & Design, Software Engineering, Front End Engineering, DevOps, Agile Test Analyst, Content & Optimisation, who are all responsible for driving and delivering against the product roadmap for their client partners.

You will also be part of EM Code's engineering discipline/community with engineering, front-end and DevOps specialists from other product teams, inputting to the direction of engineering, driving best practices and re-use across the business.

You must have a strong desire to improve yourself and learn from others, whilst also getting involved in the culture of learning & sharing. You will have support from our ‘Best in Industry’ talent, so you can keep progressing your own skills and career.

Our teams self-manage using an agile/scrum-ban methodology, so you need to help the team hold itself to account to maintain processes & standards - the team also have the support of leadership to guide & assist when required. Your position in the team means; juniors, peers and clients will be looking to you for solutions options, how it can be broken down and implemented reliably - making technology understandable.

Essential

Skills, knowledge and experience

• Commercial experience as a modern front end engineer.
• Highly competent across core front-end skillsets: HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (Vanilla) etc
• Solid experience with frameworks and languages: React, Typescript, CSS Modules
• A good understanding of automation & build tools such as Git & Deployment, Grunt, Gulp, or Webpack.
• You are already Unit Testing with Jest or React-Testing-Library
• You are agnostic on the language/frameworks you use, not pigeon-holed to a single language/framework.
• Regularly use SaaS & headless CMS; DatoCMS, Prismic, Storyblok, Contentful
• You work and participate in the how the team works and improves as part of an agile/self-improving team.
• You are aware of the impact of performance & accessibility and understand techniques for improving load and render times.
• You will have as much passion in HOW you work & deliver solutions to problems as you do in the technology you use, so terms like ‘Craftsmanship’, ‘Clean Code’, ‘Automate Everything’ are something you believe in very strongly.
• You are already a competent front end developer, but looking for the environment and tech culture to progress further.
  
  

Desirable

• Exposure or experience in the use of Design Tokens & Atomic Design Principles would be very advantageous.
• An appreciation of UX & Design, with a desire to work more collaboratively (design in the browser).
• Deeper knowledge of accessibility and how it applies to building digital experiences.
• Experience in NextJs, Storybook
  
  

A Bit About EM Code...

We are EM Code, formerly Code Computerlove, a new kind of digital partner. Since our establishment in 1999, our industry has undergone dramatic changes, and we have continually adapted our attitudes, beliefs, and approaches to stay ahead.

For over 25 years, EM Code has helped shape some of the UK’s leading brands and businesses. We are renowned for our human-centred thinking, digital design excellence, and modern engineering practices. Our eclectic eclectic client base includes big organisations like the BBC, fast-moving start-ups like LightSpeed Broadband, and local heroes like Manchester Pride. We even launched a global number-one app, The Higher Lower Game.

Recognising the need for constant evolution, our agency is structured to always help our clients and partners adapt to rapidly changing customer and market needs. We focus on what our clients need to achieve, finding ideas that create business impact and making them happen. We start where we can deliver the biggest results, then test, learn, and improve before moving on to the next goal.

Our approach is different from most agencies. It’s agile, collaborative, and flexible. With EM Code’s deep customer insights, brand-led creativity, and world-class engineering support, the time to reinvent is now.

We are officially recognised as a Great Place to Work, with 98% of our team saying the working environment is welcoming, friendly, and fun, and 98% agreeing that people are treated fairly regardless of race, age, or sexual orientation. EM Code is full of talented, passionate individuals who love collaborating and helping each other out, and our client partners trust us to do world-class work.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to promoting inclusivity and diversity at EM Code. We actively encourage applications from black and ethnic minority groups.We’re part of something bigger

Since 2017, we have been proud to be part of EssenceMediacom North. Our collaboration takes place within the vibrant WPP Manchester Campus, located in the heart of Spinningfields, where we work alongside over 500 talented creatives and marketers.

Being part of EssenceMediacom North provides us with access to world-leading enterprise tools and resources. This enhances our extensive capabilities in communications, media, insights, customer experience, AI, and cutting-edge technology, allowing us to craft truly integrated solutions.

What we value...

• We value people who are brilliant in their capability and the things that they make together
• We value people who improve; continually improve themselves and the world around them to make a difference
• We value people who collaborate, who are a joy to work with and who get more from themselves and those around them, by working together effectively
  
  

The package

We offer a competitive salary, negotiable depending on qualifications and experience. On top of this we have a generous benefits package, including pension scheme, medical insurance, flexi-start, 25 days holiday growing to 30 days over time, paid social events, bike schemes, child care schemes, etc.

It’s not all about work

• Make-Change Friday afternoon – dedicated improvement time
• An annual training budget of at least £500 so you can develop your skills
• Medical insurance with eyecare and dental included
• Charity volunteering day
• Subsidised massages on-site
• Generous maternity and shared parental leave package
• Flexible hours and opportunities to work from home
• Annual (& legendary) Christmas jaunt abroad
• Social events subsidised by the company, including a weekly free bar
• Bike and rail pass scheme
  
  

(Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location)