front end engineer Belfast, Northern Ireland
Job description
A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US!
Foods Connected is a cloud based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business. At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy working together and solving problems for our customers. Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing our project statuses or enjoying a game of ping-pong or pool in the office, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.
We’re always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our team. So if you’re driven, with a passion for developing simple software solutions, creating great user experiences, designing scalable solutions for real business challenges and ensuring customer happiness then we’re looking for you!
IS THIS SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU?
The React Front End Developer will have responsibility for and oversight of implementing solutions that improve the front-end solutions of web applications and services that will be utilised by some of the world’s leading food production and food retail businesses. As a React Front End Developer you will support and regularly contribute to the common code bases with very little oversight beyond high level direction.
Through integrating our products and taking front end ownership you will have a key role as part of a modernisation project we are currently undertaking and act as a tech leader in the Front end space internally and provide support and guidance to other developers in their understanding of React Front End Development.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate on front end product architecture for building robust distributed systems: Provide input on technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, optimize application for maximum speed, scalability, and accessibility.
- Implement outlined information architecture & interaction design ensuring alignment with back-end specifications for complex software applications and systems.
- Confer with business analysts, data scientists, or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities.
- Serve as a contributing team member, participating in software development lifecycle and regularly communicating status to Head of Engineering or Development Director.
- Develop new user-facing features and builds reusable code and libraries for future use. Building and maintaining internal design system.
- Write clean, test-driven code that adheres to standards, practices, and conventions.
- Test features to ensure the program can be used easily, quickly, and accurately.
- Update, repair, modify, and develop existing software and generic applications.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, and 5 years’ relevant experience.
- 5+ years’ experience Front-end software or full stack development.
- At least one major skill outside of programming such as monitoring, performance optimization, documentation, integration, testing, or visual design.
Experience Required:
To perform this job successfully, the React Front End Developer should have experience with:
- Front-end: React.js, JSON, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components and JavaScript libraries
- Prior experience with React.js workflows (Flux or Redux)
- Languages: React.js, C#, JavaScript, JSON
- Frameworks: .NET.
BENEFITS:
- Competitive Base Salary
- Employee Performance Related Bonus
- Clear Career Progression
- Flexible Working Hours
- Matched Employee Pension
- Generous Holiday Package
- Secure Company Hardware
