Job description
frog is one of the world’s most successful innovation and design companies and has recently turbo-charged our UK business through a number of mergers and acquisitions.
We’re growing fast, and our next move is to build on our global heritage in brand consultancy and launch a market leading UK brand offer.
Why join frog?
frog partners with customer-centric enterprises to drive sustainable growth, by building and orchestrating experiences at scale, while harnessing the power of data and technology.
We’re inventing the future of customer experiences by delivering market-defining business models, products, services, brand engagements and communications.
Joining frog means you’ll be joining the “pond,” a global network of studios, each with a thriving in-person and vibrant virtual culture. frogs are curious, collaborative, and courageous, united by our passion for improving the human experience through design, while each bringing our unique and diverse skills and experiences to the table. We draw on our global reach and local knowledge to solve complex problems and design innovative, sustainable solutions that touch hearts and move markets. frogs prize humour, positivity, and community just as highly as performance and outcomes. Our culture is open, flexible, inclusive, and engaging. Working at frog means being empowered to Make Your Mark on every project, in your studio, your community—and the world at large.
We believe that companies need to simultaneously transform their business of today while building their business of tomorrow. We combine design, technology and business smarts to help organisations do just this. We create products, services and businesses from scratch as well as transforming things that already exist from the ground up. We also believe this can be done whilst having a laugh together and going home on time.
In London, we’re a team of 80+ product and service designers, developers and technologists, and strategists, and part of a global network of frog studios and the broader Capgemini group. We’re helping clients launch Beta Businesses and challenging existing setups for clients in Telco, Energy, Financial Services and Retail, amongst many other sectors.
The role
As an experienced Full Stack Engineer you will work within all aspects of solution development, including the overall design and architecture of the technical solution, implementation patterns and code quality, CI/CD pipelines and Cloud infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to work across all stages of the product life cycle: from inception, to proof of concept, to full build and test, launching in market, and operating at scale. The scope of our work and sectors is also varied, ranging from building entire beta businesses to creating brand new online experiences and mobile apps for some of the biggest players across the telecoms, banking, travel and utilities industries, and many more.
As part of our global frog technology community you will have the chance to contribute to our Technology strategy, helping to evolve and broaden the solutions that we provide to our clients as well as influencing our strategic technology choices. And we’re one of the few consultancies delivering products to the market!
This is a multi-faceted lead role. It is as much about developing software as it is learning and developing your skills and those of the teams around you. Our environment is very flexible, collaborative and varied in the projects we do - we aim for this to be the place where you can do your best work.
Why you?
You can
- Demonstrate understanding and experience of delivering beautiful modern digital architectures, including JAMstack and modern headless JavaScript applications.
- Work to deliver web UIs within a multi-disciplinary team alongside Designers, Product Managers, QA and Ops.
- Actively and confidently participate in sessions and workshops alongside client teams and stakeholders.
- Identify and implement improvements to the way we work, with the instinct to recognise when something isn’t working.
- Help improve the development and automation processes for build and release of software.
You have
A strong background in JavaScript (ES6 & TypeScript), DOM scripting, Node.js.
Experience with modern, CSS(3) styling and layout (framework agnostic) including working with CSS preprocessors and/or styled components.
Built, deployed and run Node.js applications and services in production.
Experience integrating with external APIs using REST and/or GraphQL.
Awareness of tooling for UI development, such as Figma, Sketch, Invision etc.
An eye for detail and passion to make what we create shine. Our products have got to be functionally correct, and they’ve also got to look great.
A passion for helping to create and maintain an environment where people can do great work and learn new skills.
Bonus Points For:
- Awareness of OWASP secure coding practices, and browser security.
- Experience in unit testing JavaScript code and React component testing (e.g. Jest).
- Comfort in advocating DevOps concepts and have experience with tools and technologies that make them possible.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- High level understanding of the marketing technology cloud native offerings, common SaaS platforms in the market (e.g. Headless SaaS CMSs, Static Site Generators).
What makes us tick?
At heart we’re a strategy, design & innovation company and like to think we’ve played a big role in shaping the way brands connect with customers. From working with Steve Jobs on Apple’s design language, through to reinventing Disney’s Theme Parks, and even partnering with Porsche to turbocharge their products.
Three beliefs underpin our culture & frame the type of people who excel at frog:
- Being a challenger brand: a home for rebels and disruptors who want to do their best work
- Making our mark: fanatically improving our world and having real impact by crafting things people love
- A belief in the power of emotion and in not compromising on quality
Equal Opportunities at frog
frog and Capgemini Invent are Equal Opportunity Employers encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
frog is a global business with teams working from every corner of the world. To help us process your application, please ensure that your application documents (CV, cover letter, portfolio, etc.) are all in English.
Since June 2021, frog is part of Capgemini Invent
As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses.
Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.
Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 270,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50 year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2020 global revenues of €16 billion.
Make Your Mark