Junior Front End Developer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

Position summary:

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. Pendle needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Naples office Tuesday to Thursday.

Your responsibilities:

• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Add analytics events and help product read the results
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook

What you need:

• 0-2 years building production web applications
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Git and a pull request based workflow

What you get:

• Hybrid working

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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