Front End Developer (Angular)

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1992 and have grown to about 4,100 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

About the role:

Canopycast needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. Remote, with occasional travel to Newcastle upon Tyne (a few times a year).

What you'll do:

• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs.
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly.
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress.
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack.

Required qualifications:

• 3-5 years building production web applications.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup.
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues.
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts.
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.
• Git and a pull request based workflow.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts.
• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering.

Rate: £57,000-£78,000 per annum

Benefits:

• Healthcare cash plan.
• Company pension.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Please send your CV. A cover letter is welcome but not required.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canopycast.