Senior Front End Engineer

Who We Are:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse. 

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.  Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work. 

Senior Front End React Developer needed to join our engineering team. This is an exceptional opportunity for a Senior Front End React Developer to take a leading role in building high-quality, production-ready React/NextJS single-page applications for some of the world's most exciting brands. You'll drive forward code quality, unit testing, accessibility, and performance, contributing significantly to an Agile development team. With full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, you'll be instrumental in creating modular layouts, reusable code, and integrating with diverse systems, all while mentoring junior developers and staying at the forefront of evolving front-end technologies.

What you'll be doing:

• Creating prototypes and high-quality production-ready React/NextJS front-end single page applications
• Driving forward the quality – in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, code reviews
• Delivering on an Agile workstream of front-end developers on a project, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning and estimates
• Conversing confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Building modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
• Representing front-end in a client-facing capacity
• Cooperating with design and marketing teams to gather and refine specifications and requirements for development
• Being involved in existing and new integrations for the platform
• Having full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance, expansion and scaling
• Staying current with evolving standards and technologies, learning new skills as needed
• Mentoring junior candidates

What we want from you:

• Strong commercial experience of hands on React development, with a solid understanding of the core concepts
• Strong commercial experience of serverless development and server-side development with NextJS
• Solid understanding of state management technologies/approaches i.e. Redux, Flux
• Extensive Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS) and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry defined coding standards
• Extensive experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)
• Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation, refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos
• Experience of mentoring junior members of the team
• Experience in component development with Storybook
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security and usability
• Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders
• Proficient understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility issues
• Commercial experience working on SPA solutions, ideally within e-commerce
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Grunt and webpack
• Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.
• Have experience of integrating with a variety of external, 3rd party systems

If you know some of this, even better:

• Additional Commercial eCommerce platform experience – Magento/Hybris /Shopify
• Experience of working with other CMS platforms such as AEM, Sitecore or SFCC
• Any knowledge of Nodejs, Express, SQL, Lambda, AWS
• Experience of working on Java/Node/C#/PHP projects would be beneficial

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.

Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

• Connect Meaningfully
• Inspire Creatively
• Include Purposefully
• Approach Positively

Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That's why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world's leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We've built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we're looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client's successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

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WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. 

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