Job Description

Do you want to work at the leading edge of JavaScript technologies? Do you have the drive to build great products for a world class organisation? We're looking for a Senior Engineer with JavaScript and React skills to help deliver the roadmap for Sage Accounting - take a look at https://www.sage.com/en-gb/accounting-software




You will be working within an international team of around 7-8 developers and 3-4 QA, on new and existing customer facing products, utilising Sage's open source library of React components - Carbon (https://carbon.sage.com)




This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle office.

Key Responsibilities

What we're looking for:




- Excellent commercial JavaScript experience


- Excellent commercial React experience


- A good understanding of testing web applications - knowledge of Jest would be advantageous


- An understanding of Typescript


- An understanding of state management


- A great team player, communicator and collaborator - as well as your own contributions to the codebase, we encourage engineers to support more junior colleagues within the team


- Experience with Agile Development and SCRUM




You will:




- Provide technical leadership for a team of developers - offering guidance on best practice, mentoring/coaching, improving team delivery


- Work alongside the Team Leader on agreed projects to support the team's roadmap - identifying and mitigating items that may impact the team's delivery


- Coordinate closely with Architecture to ensure high quality solutions are delivered following agreed processes


- Own technical work streams - delivering at pace, researching and solving complex problems


- Identify and drive opportunities outside of the immediate team - advise, or share best practice; Influence departmental strategy; improve delivery


- Successfully develop, deliver and maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)


- Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable


- Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle


- Contribute to quality activities, incl. peer reviews of estimates, designs and code


- Investigate and resolve defects/bugs found in pre-production or production environments


- Be an active and enthusiastic team player, working effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments


- Be committed to team success and positive team dynamics


- Work cross-functionally with various Sage teams: product management, QA/XD, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results


- Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services


- Update job knowledge by studying current development tools & techniques






Key Skills and Experience:




- React


- Typescript, CSS-in-JS and state management


- Unit testing web applications e.g, Jest or React Testing Library


- Storybook and Playwright


- Object-oriented programming, enough to write and review code and documentation.


- Ability to interpret user requirements and translate these into technical specifications leading the technical solution


- High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem-solving skills


- Mentoring and coaching skills


- Service-oriented architecture experience


- Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment


- Team player and collaborator


- Best coding principles


- Troubleshooting and problem-solving expertise.




Preferred:


- Ruby on Rails


- React Query


- Experience of Accessibility and coding for responsive design (mobile first)


- Innovative and creative thinking


- Customer focus




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