Lead React Developer

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Requirements:

• Commercial experience in hands-on React development with solid understanding of core concepts.
• Experience in serverless development and server-side development with NextJS.
• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS), and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry-defined coding standards.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodology, including story point estimation and sprint planning.
• Desire to write readable, maintainable, modular, and extendable code.
• Experience in pair programming.
• Debugging abilities using browser console and other tools.
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization and accessibility.
• Experience using linter/formatter tooling like ESlint/Prettier.
• Commercial experience using GIT in large development teams for Continuous Integration.
• Excellent communication skills and capability to interact with team and stakeholders.
• Understanding of fluid responsive layouts and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience in unit testing, end-to-end testing, and regression testing (using Jest, React-testing-libraries, and Cypress).
• Experience with CSS pre-processors and CSS-in-JS (SASS and styled components).
• Solid understanding of state management technologies (Redux, Flux).
• Experience with Type Checking languages (Flow or TypeScript).
• Experience working on SPA solutions, ideally in e-commerce.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools (Grunt, webpack).
• Willingness to contribute to various projects and tasks.
• Experience mentoring junior team members.
• Experience in component development using Storybook.
• Self-motivated with a strong work ethic and ownership.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Experience integrating with external, 3rd party systems.

Responsibilities:

• Create prototypes and high-quality production-ready React/NextJS front-end single-page applications.
• Architectural decisions to be agreed with Front-end Architect and implemented for consistency and quality.
• Drive forward the quality in code, unit testing, accessibility, and performance through code reviews.
• Engage with clients to understand new requirements or issues and present potential solutions.
• Lead an Agile workstream of front-end developers on a project, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and estimates.
• Build modular layouts, reusable code, and libraries for future use.
• Manage workload and mentor junior team members.
• Work with design teams to create optimal front-end user experiences.
• Be involved in existing and new integrations for the platform.
• Maintain ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance and scaling.
• Stay current with evolving standards and technologies.
• Support the recruitment process in technical tests and team fit assessments.