- Job Title: Senior JavaScript Developer
- Level & Responsibility: This role is at a Senior Manager level joining our engineering team and providing technical leadership to more junior Developers
- Salary: £60,000+ per annum, depending on experience, and our 10% discretionary bonus
- Location & Hybrid Working: Either London or Leeds, a minimum of 2 days in the office per week
The role
We are looking for a Full Stack Senior JavaScript Developer to join our central engineering team at SMG. As Senior JavaScript Developer you will take ownership of tickets assigned to you and deal with them end-to-end, managing the design, implementation and delivery of the request. You will be responsible for the architecture of new features and for maintaining the technical quality standards within the Developer team. You will also be a point of contact and learning for the rest of the team, coaching and guiding them within their roles and development.
Why SMG?
We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it's because of this that we've been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.
We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...
Generous discretionary bonus scheme
£1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing
£500 yearly "Uni Fund" towards learning and development
Free headspace subscription
4pm Friday finishes all year round
Two fully paid conferences a year in Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year
Why you?
In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:
- Significant experience delivering at a senior developer level.
- Deep knowledge of the TypeScript and/or JavaScript languages and related frameworks. Must include React, node.js (or both).
- Practical and real world experience working with databases, ideally MongoDB.
- Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Deep understanding of software tools and practices, including git, pull requests, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD etc.
- Good understanding of security and performance considerations.
- Comfortable with deploying a web app in AWS (optional).
P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:
- Design & build web applications using TypeScript and JavaScript. Our tech stack includes React, node.js. MongoDB, AWS.
- Contribute code across the full stack of the web application.
- Provide technical leadership to more junior developers.
- Take responsibility for technical quality standards within the developer team.
- Define the code architecture for new features.
- Take initiatives that improve code quality and user experience.
- Work closely with the product team to ensure the high quality of tickets.
The process
- We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
- There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
- We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.
Helping you shine
We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us.
SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer
We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.
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