About this role

As a React Engineering Lead, you’ll help drive our Group wide and cross brand Design System initiative. As part of our core front end squad you’ll be enabling our Consumer delivery squads by producing components, frameworks and tooling. 

You will be at the leading edge of development and mentor a team of developers. You will contribute to transforming our working culture and digital presence using agile ways of working.

You'll have the following responsibilities

• Bridge between Design System and Consumer front end enablement squads
• Working closely with the Consumer and Group wide Design and Brand teams
• Building and codifying a reusable framework agnostic Design system
• Create front end code and tooling to allow Consumer feature squads to deliver at pace
• Work with Architecture, Engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure the correct technical decisions are being made to deliver brilliant experiences for both internal and external customers
• Support the analysis of content delivery & offer page speed & performance solutions  
• Write unit tests and other automated tests
• Contribute to tribe ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, demo, retrospective)
• Contribute to platform technical direction and strategy
• Coach and mentor junior members
• Leading multi-site and nearshore / offshore Engineering resources
• Lead the technical analysis and troubleshooting of operational and security related issues
• Help build an internal front end chapter and contribute to internal and external conferences/meetups

You'll have the following skills & experience

Essential skillset/Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience with ReactJS, NextJS, TypeScript and GraphQL
• Fluent with modern JavaScript and standard tooling (Webpack, Babel, ES6, Linting, JS Typing, Prettier, etc), HTML and CSS Preprocessors
• Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading / caching, PWA). 
• Accessibility best practices (WCAG 2.0, WAI-ARIA), Performance optimisation and responsive design
• Unit test tools (Jest)
• End to End test tools experience (Cypress, Cucumber, etc.)
• Versioning tools (GIT)
• Experience with and defined DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team and with a wide variety of stakeholders

Nice to have skillset/Experience:

• Experience in other front-end frameworks/libraries  
• Experience in driving implementation of test-driven approaches (TDD BDD) 
• Understanding of Terraform Docker, Kubernetes, AWS environments and services 

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme 
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids 
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

How to Apply

It's easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process. Don't worry if you need to make changes - you'll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page. We look forward to receiving your application!