The ustwo London Studio is looking for a freelance, senior frontend developer. ustwo have been working with this world leading financial client to create a bespoke design system, this comprises design + online documentation, component library using web components and integration into their CMS.
You will be working in a cross functional team with other frontend and full stack developers, designers and a product owner. You should have a desire for a results-driven, collaborative, and fast-paced environment, and have a focus on producing robust, production quality functional, and quality software.
Tenure: Starting ASAP, initial 6 months with a high chance of extension. Outside IR35.
Location
The role will be predominantly remote, but the candidate will need to be able to come to London to visit both the clients and ustwo office.
Additional Details
- You will need to the right to work in the UK
- You will need to complete a standard security clearance check as part of the onboarding process with the client
Key Skills
Technical
- Experience building and testing production scalable design systems
- Experience of working as or with backend developers to gather and agree requirements and integrating code into backend systems
- Very high level of frontend development experience and production considerations such as AA accessibility, setting and meeting performance budgets, automated testing
- ES6 Javascript, ideally including react, stencilJs (or other web component libs), typescript and storybook
- Exposure to backend languages .net or Java would also be a benefit (not required for hand on dev)
Working practices
- Working with a cross discipline team to ensure delivery of high quality products on time and on budget
- A high standard of production grade development, being looked upon as a senior authority in software development tasks
- Passion for modern frontend technologies and architectural approaches, and for pushing clients/projects to adopt best practices
- Pragmatic approach to problem solving with a clear view on value delivery (user and business)
- Strong communication skills and client stakeholder management
How we work
You will work collaboratively to solve difficult problems and build great features in a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, product owners and delivery coaches. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables. You will help design, develop, test, deploy software solutions. Our teams work in a collaborative cross-discipline environment where everyone is responsible for quality, and hence encouraged to look beyond their immediate role.
You will work on projects that make a meaningful impact on our clients, their customers, and the world.
Itβs also great fun working at ustwo!