Senior Frontend Engineer

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

This is a backfill for a team member who is relocating. The Checkout team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. Hybrid. You will need to be in Edinburgh at least two days per week.

What you'll be doing

• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook
• Add analytics events and help product read the results

Qualifications

• 5-7 years building production web applications
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components

Preferred

• Some Node.js backend work
• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts
• Experience building or maintaining a design system

Rate: £81,000 to £106,000 pa

What you get

• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays
• Professional qualifications paid for
• Season ticket loan
• Life assurance (4x salary)

This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

Start: Flexible.

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