Senior Frontend Engineer

Job Description

Here at Huel, our customers always come first. And as we grow, it is vital that we continue to deliver a world-class experience to our Hueligans all over the world. Being primarily an e-commerce business, our engineering team is crucial to our online success.

Our team handles millions of requests every week and ensures our Hueligans in countries all over the world have an exceptional online experience. Sounds good, right?

Well if you like a challenge, are comfortable building applications in modern web technologies and are eager to learn, come and be a part of it. We're now looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the team in Digbeth, Birmingham.

The Role

Working within this unique team of 7 frontend developers*, everyday is different. Apart from the table tennis tournaments and after work social activities in our wonderful city of Birmingham, the day-to-day life as an developer at Huel looks like:

• Building and maintaining components for our UI Kit that are shared between multiple frontend projects
• Creating new features/softwares for customers and internal systems
• Contributing to processes improvements during sprint retros
• Planning projects with other frontend engineers / PMs / backend team
• Learning new tech/libraries/frameworks that we feel can add value to our stack (dedicated time is given for courses on new tech if needed)
• Reviewing other team members PRs
• Suggesting improvements or changes to any of websites and tools that we own as a team
• Being part of a positive team-driven environment in a new office, situated close to the city centre, with the option to work from home a couple of days a week

What we're looking for in you

First and foremost, we don’t expect everyone to know everything. We are just keen for individuals who are enthusiastic to learn, work hard and are real team players. We're a rocket ship here at Huel, meaning you have every opportunity to grow and expand your knowledge in areas you are passionate about, whether that is something you’re already interested in or something new.

We’ll get you up to speed on:

• Native web components
• Project architecture
• Design patterns
• Micro-frontends
• DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Edge deployments and CDN
• 5+ years of experience as a dedicated frontend developer/engineer
• Experience with TypeScript
• Commercial automated testing knowledge
• Strong responsive UI creation skills
• Good understanding of web performance
• Experience with using git for version control
• Commercial experience with React
• Bonus points for Next.js specific experience too
• Ability to consume external APIs
• Good understanding of modern JS (ES6+)
• Experience authoring NPM packages
• Good understanding of build tools
  

What do we offer in return?

We have a high-performance culture which is balanced evenly with world-class well-being initiatives and benefits that are tastier than our Salted Caramel Black Edition (and trust us, that’s saying something!)

⏰ 4 and a half day working week - We finish at 1 pm on a Friday!

🌴 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays

🕖 Flexible working - including up to 2 days per week at home

🥤 Free Huel to keep you going

🏖️ 2 weeks a year to work remotely from anywhere! One week in the Summer and one week at Christmas

🐾 Dog friendly. If you've seen Daddy Day Care the movie, that's basically our HQ but for doggo's!

🙋 Paid Volunteering Days

🏋️ Free use of our onsite gym plus free group classes. We will also give you your own nutrition plan!

🧠 Free 1-on-1 therapy provided by Self-Space.

🏥 Private Medical and Health insurance for you and your loved ones, including free life insurance covering up to 4x your salary

⚡ Electric Car Scheme with onsite charging when you visit HQ

🚴 Cycle to Work Scheme

🤰 Enhanced Family Leave

👪 Workplace Nursery Scheme

🎓 Huel Academy

🎉 Quarterly events to celebrate success - Have you heard about Huelchella?

We are Hueligans

We're all made up of our Huel DNA, but what makes us unique is our individual differences. We've created a culture of belonging and we celebrate the diversity our Hueligans add to our teams. We encourage authenticity, different views, and new ideas to enable us to create products that our customers around the world enjoy and love. Read more about our culture here.