Senior Front End Developer
Brighton and Hove, England, gb
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About Us
Snappy Shopper is the market leader in the growing Q-commerce convenience grocery sector, worth £41b in the UK. In addition to our independent retailers, we serve most of the major convenience store players, including Spar, Nisa, Premier and Booker.
Snappy exists to enable local high street businesses to serve their customers online so that local communities thrive, and revenue stays local. Retailers have seen revenue uplifts of between £5k and £120k per month, making the platform mission critical to local business.
Our location
We are a Scottish start-up with 130 colleagues based around the UK and our Head Office is located in Dundee and an additional office in Edinburgh.
This role can be completed remotely for those based in the UK but you can also base yourself from our Dundee or Edinburgh offices if that’s your preferred way of working.
About the team
Our Frontend Team play an exciting and pivotal role in ensuring our customers have the best experience when using our platform. As a startup, this team create visually appealing interfaces in an ever-changing environment whilst working with stakeholders from across the business including Product Managers, Engineers, Designers and Backend Devs. They play a key role in enabling our thousands of customers interact with a range of retailers (both large and small) online.
About the Role
As a Frontend Developer, you will use Nuxt.js to design, develop and maintain a range of high-quality web applications focusing on performance scalability and user experience.
Your duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Developing responsive, high performance web application using Nuxt.js and Vue.js
- Work with a range of technical colleagues to create seamless user experiences whilst ensuring applications maintain maximum speed and scalability
- Create, utilise and maintain code that is reusable and clean whilst following industry best practices
- Integrating RESTful APIs endpoints into frontend application
- Work with the wider team to contribute to code reviews and improve development processes
About You
You’ll be an experience Front End Developer with experience and/or knowledge of the following:
- A demonstrable portfolio of work which showcases Nuxt.js projects
- Stellar knowledge of key languages including JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 as well as key frameworks like Vue.js and Nuxt.js as well as key libraries like Vuex and Pinia
- Exposure to SSR (Server-Side Rendering) and static site generation
- Experience with version control systems, including Git
- An understanding of responsive design an mobile-first development principles
- Real interpersonal and problem-solving skills
Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll be/have:
- Knowledge of other frontend tools and build systems like Webpack, Vite or Babel.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud platforms (such as Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud) and serverless technologies
Who you are is as important to us as what you can do. Do these values and behaviours sound like something that would come naturally for you?
Community: You’ll thrive working in a cross-functional team
Be Snappy: You’ll be able to create work quickly, experimenting as you go
Breaking Barriers: You’ll thrive in a fast-moving environment where you can try new things and approaches.
Craic on: You’ll learn as you go whilst enjoying getting to know your colleagues.
What’s in it for you
If you’ve not already experienced it, time in a high growth Tech start-up is a whole new adventure! As the Company grows, so will your professional growth as you learn how to constantly apply your learning to scale the business at pace. The challenges and opportunities will constantly change, which means you’ll continually be developing new skills - you won’t get bored or be doing the same old routine.
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Applying
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