Frontend Engineer

Looking for a Frontend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in Sheffield. We hire in Japan through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours overlap with UK business hours.

Main duties:

• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly.
• Add analytics events and help product read the results.

About you:

• 3+ years building production web applications.
• Git and a pull request based workflow.
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.

Also helpful:

• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy.

Perks and benefits:

• Stock options.
• Performance bonus.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Equity.

About the company:

Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free. Hobbyists in the UK make up most of our customers, and many have been buying since the beginning. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Within 30 days.

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