Senior Front End Engineer

Arbor Education

About the Company

Job Description

Required Skills

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Product Manager, QA Engineer, and Technical Lead to solutionize feature requests.
• Lead the creation of detailed documentation for new feature developments, incorporating diagrams for comprehensive understanding.
• Drive the development and implementation of tests around new features, ensuring appropriate coverage and the highest standards.
• Drive a user-centric front-end platform that delivers exceptional user experiences.
• Play a proactive role in mitigating the occurrence of production incidents, identifying risks and ensuring quality.
• Actively participate in remediation in the event of an incident, and also root cause analysis with the team to implement measures that prevent future occurrences.
• Demonstrate expertise in producing well-architected, efficient, and scalable code using industry-leading design patterns and methodologies.
• Take a leadership role in code reviews and pair programming sessions, guiding and mentoring colleagues towards excellence.
• Lead and actively participate in tech-talks, workshops, and team-based learning initiatives - ensuring knowledge is disseminated effectively across the team.
• Proactively identify and address developer experience and workflow improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of JavaScript fundamentals.
• Proven experience in leading projects with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue or similar.
• Excellent knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Strong understanding of web accessibility.
• Strong experience with automated testing (unit testing, integration testing and end-to-end testing).
• Good understanding of good software delivery methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Agile).
• Advanced understanding and application of best practices and software engineering principles, including SOLID, DRY, etc.
• Good understanding of front-end build tools such as Webpack and Babel.
• Basic software architecture skills: understands the ways in which frontends can fit into the overall software stack.
• Experience with a backend language/framework such as PHP/Symfony.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent team collaboration skills and experience in mentoring developers.
• A commitment to continuous learning, improvement and staying up-to-date with industry trends.
• Excellent written and spoken English for clear and effective communication.
• Experience with Docker and containerisation.
• Experience with build tooling (GitHub Actions, bash scripting etc.).
• Bonus: Experience with React Native or other mobile app development technologies.
• Bonus: Past experience with enterprise solutions.
• Bonus: Experience developing a frontend framework / platform.
• Bonus: Experience writing PHP.
• Bonus: Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Bonus: Familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc.

Benefits & Perks

• Dedicated wellbeing team championing initiatives like mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, and mental health first aid.
• 32 days holiday (25 annual leave + 7 extra company-wide days over Easter, Summer & Christmas).
• Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary.
• Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health (24/7 virtual GP service, mental health support, counselling, personalised health checks).
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa.
• Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows.
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay.
• 5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.
• Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching).
• Flexible working champion.
• Social committees that plan team, office, and company-wide events.
• Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc).
• Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year.
• Dog-friendly offices.

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Posted Date

July 17, 2026