Overview

Position Title: Senior Frontend Developer

Company: Gumtree

Location: Ballymena, United Kingdom

Job Description:

As a company we are on a mission to make buying and selling second hand safer, simpler and more enjoyable for everyone, because we believe everything can find a new purpose (and that’s good for you and good for the planet).
With nearly a million new ads on the site each week and a whopping 14 million unique visitors every month, Gumtree prides itself on being the go-to place for everything from smartphones to cars and jobs to flats.

Responsibilities:

  • Our team setup consists of Agile cross-functional squads directly focussed on business targets and a platform team focussed on tech-strategy.
  • We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our international team of engineers at Gumtree. We’re working remotely for the foreseeable future, but our Gumtree and Motors offices are in Richmond and
  • Abingdon respectively. With 39 other engineers you’ll be supporting various frontend initiatives and delivering value to millions of customers.
  • As one of seven frontend engineers you’ll be working with fun and diverse colleagues in a rewarding cultural environment.
  • You’ll be relied on to develop and deliver high-quality features, improvements and changes to the JavaScript/TypeScript layers from the NodeJS middle-ware to the universal ReactJS application layer.

Requirements:

  • Experienced in developing features and changes across ReactJS and NodeJS using JavaScript and TypeScript.
  • You have experience maintaining coding standards and following technical guidance when building your features.
  • You do your best to deliver high performing, clean code, modular and scalable.
  • You have experience with the usual JS tools/packages such as WebPack, Babel, Jest/Enzyme, etc.
  • You have a DevOps mindset (You’ll get to own the software development lifecycle by doinga.o your own: development, unit testing, e2e testing, releasing, aftercare and incident management).
  • Experience in developing tests with Cypress is considered a big plus.
  • Experience in development of A/B tests is a plus.
  • You have experience working on mixed frontends with legacy and modern areas.
  • You’ve worked in Agile teams and delivered software using Agile
  • You help your colleagues when you can, sharing knowledge and experience.
  • You’re comfortable providing and receiving constructive criticism, particularly while participating in code reviews

Benefits:

  • 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service. 🏖️
  • Conference & education budget. 🏫
  • Private dental insurance. 🦷
  • Private health insurance. 🏥
  • Company bonus scheme. 💷
  • Income protection policy. 💰
  • Remote / Hybrid / Office based working available* 💻

About Gumtree

At Gumtree, we’re proud to have spent the last 20 years helping to make ‘Good Finds’ happen for millions of people across the UK. From motors to sofas, records to roommates, connecting people to what they need, when they need is what a Good Find is all about - even if that does sometimes mean the occasional advert with a typo in a headline or a thumb over the camera lens. Over the years we’ve helped start next chapters, supported communities and small businesses and encouraged people to embrace a culture of re-commerce, where we waste less, share more and help each other out in small ways.