Senior Frontend Engineer

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. We're hiring another Senior Frontend Engineer to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. You can work from home anywhere in the UK. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• 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
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production web applications
• Git and a pull request based workflow
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)

Pay: £75,000 to £92,000 pa

We offer pension scheme with 5% employer contribution, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, birthday off, employee assistance programme, annual bonus, home working allowance and company pension.

No agencies please.

Start: Immediately.

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