Frontend Developer

Job Description

Our mission is to make meaningful learning a part of your everyday 🧠. The shelf life of our skills is now less than 5 years. So, if you stopped learning today, your skills would soon be irrelevant. Think that’s a big problem? You’d be right.

Enter HowNow. Founded in 2019, our Learning and Skills Platform is disrupting the way people learn and upskill through technology. Whether it's finding a quick answer, learning skills or tapping into shared knowledge, we make it easy for people to learn what they need, when they need it.

Already used by fast-growing scale-ups and global enterprises, such as Trainline, Depop and Sanofi, we’re pushing the boundaries of how people learn.

Hi I'm Naaz the Peoples Operations Coordinator at HowNow 👋🏾 I’m looking for a Frontend Developer to join us.

Joining our team offers a unique opportunity to learn and work alongside talented professionals who are passionate about what they do. You'll be part of an environment that values your input and actively considers your suggestions, fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. We emphasize continuous learning and growth. With our flat hierarchy, you'll have direct access to leadership and the ability to make a meaningful impact from day one.

Alongside the opportunities to develop and grow your career, we're a fun and friendly bunch. Have a watch of the video below to get an understanding of what it's like to work here.

Day-to-day tasks will include 📩

• You’ll develop user interfaces for web applications using React.js.
• You’ll develop responsive user interface components and implementing them following well known React workflows such as Context/Flux/Redux.
• You’ll translate designs and wireframes into high quality code optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web capable devices and browsers.
• You’ll troubleshoot and debug issues that arise during development and in production environment.
• You’ll collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
• You’ll collaborate with product managers and designers to translate design wireframes and mockups into responsive and interactive web applications.
• You’ll Implement clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

The key things that we will be looking for in applicants 🔑

• You have 3-5 years experience in developing user interfaces with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• You are proficient in React, Node, HTML5, CSS3 (Flex/Grid), SASS.
• You have sound understanding of Redux Saga, React, Styled components, Jest.
• You have familiarity with newer specifications of ES6.
• You have experience with common front end development tools such as Webpack,Gulp,Browserify etc.

What you’ll get:

💰 Our salaries are calculated using a SaaS benchmarking tool called (Figures). Happy to disclose upon application. You’ll also receive a performance based bonus on top.

🏡 Hybrid working (in our offices 3x a week Mon-Wed)

💆 Wind-down Fridays. No meetings from 3pm onwards on Fridays, for you to wind down for the weekend. Our HowNow’ers use this time to exercise, study, or spend some time with their family and friends, which you can read about here

👼🏼 Enhanced maternity and paternity policies which you can read about here

🌴 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and your birthday day off

📚 An annual £200 learning and development budget

🐶 Dog friendly offices - we love our pets! 🐾

🤩 Monthly socials and team dinners which have included Bounce, Mystery Rooms, ITC Maratha, JW Marriot and many more

💡 Access to the very best learning platform out there (HowNow+) to keep you at the top of your game

What's next? 🤔

Once you've applied, we'll get back in touch with you. This is usually within the next 5 working days. Sometimes it can take slightly longer, but we will get back to you irregardless of what the outcome of your application is.

1. You'll be invited to a 30-minute video call with Naaz, our People Operations Coordinator to discuss your experiences and the role.
2. You'll be invited to a 45-minutes Technical Interview with Uday, our Frontend Developer .
3. You'll be invited to a 60-minute Technical Interview with Sai, our Senior Frontend Developer.
4. You'll be invited to a 30-minute video call with Ashish , CTO and Co- Founder.