Senior Front End Developer

Job Description

Who we are

Amplience helps our customers deliver more powerful experiences using our API-first, headless content management platform. We are very serious about reliability, and customers trust us to manage and deliver content at tremendous scale.

We are looking for a Senior Front-End Developer who has an eye for exciting, engaging web design that consistently elevates the marketing of our brand and website.

The successful candidate is a creative and detail-oriented, systemic thinker, who enjoys defining and building web design patterns, elements, and resources. It is a highly collaborative role that works with product marketing and creative team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to help create a world-class website that is at the heart of our go-to-market strategy.

At Amplience, we are on a mission to unleash the potential of every user, no matter the role, with the freedom to do more. We are building the leading commerce experience platform for retailers and brands by aligning marketers and developers with powerful tools, modern technologies, and best practices.

We're Looking for Someone Who:

Is an experienced full-time Senior Front-End Developer to contribute towards the company’s successes by developing and designing components for our website. The successful candidate will work on exciting new projects, with an opportunity to build these from scratch, and on improving existing projects and processes.

We are pushing the boundaries of integrating with Figma, so the candidate will have a keen eye for design and understands the importance of design systems in everything they create. They can demonstrate the ability to collaborate with a creative team and add technical know-how to ideas that are explored.

You are an excellent communicator who thrives either working as part of a team or on self-motivated projects. Your day-to-day focus will be varied – building web components and page designs that are created in Figma, website feature development, bug fixing and optimising website performance.

Whatever the task, you are the type of person that enjoys jumping in, learning more, and solving problems. We are at our foundation a modern technology company, so the successful candidate will share our passion for all things tech, with an appetite for presenting complex concepts in a simple and cohesive manner for our customers.

Primary Tools:

● Fluency of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages ● Knowledge of modern JavaScript build, packaging and delivery tools ● A thorough understanding of React.js, next.js and its core principles ● Knowledge of Atomic Design methodology, and how this applies to everything they create ● A good understanding of Figma, and its relation to the web development process

Qualifications & Experience:

● Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a related discipline ● 5+ years of experience as a Front-End Developer ● 5+ Years demonstratable working with React, next.js ● A portfolio of professional work for web-based projects ● Experience working with Enterprise level teams or higher ● Experience with headless CMS concepts, principles and API-driven architecture is a plus ● Demonstratable experience working alongside designers & creatives

Benefits

● Freedom to work from home, with offices for when you want them ● Competitive salary ● Flexible working arrangements ● Discretionary bonus scheme ● Company pension scheme ● Enhanced maternity & paternity policies ● Extra holidays once you’ve been with us for a while ● The option to purchase additional holidays ● Charity / volunteer days ● Life assurance policy ● Ride to work scheme ● Season ticket advance loans ● Study leave