Senior Frontend Consultant
About the role and what you'll be doing
As a Senior Frontend Consultant, we will expect you to be playing a technical leadership role. You will spend most of your time leading the technical aspects of an agile delivery team (most likely at a client's office) on an exciting project helping that client to realise the business benefit of an investment into the cloud.
As a Senior Frontend Consultant at Amido we will expect you to be playing a technical leadership role. You will spend most of your time leading the technical aspects of an agile delivery team (most likely at a client’s office) on an exciting project helping that client to realise the business benefit of an investment into the cloud. Our projects vary a huge amount from client to client, so you’ll never get bored.
We expect our technical leads to be hands-on. Using your knowledge of application architecture, you will be responsible for selecting and building the most suitable frontend solution for your client influencing the success of the project.
You will work closely with senior technical people from the client, Amido Business Analysts and QA engineers with the support of your colleagues outside of the project, as well as playing a leadership position coaching and mentoring members of the project team.
Amido has a rich and varied set of communities (on a wide variety of topics from security to mental health) as well as your core competency that you’ll be encouraged to contribute to, and learn from, where projects and client commitments allow.
You will be a self-starter, and proactive in your project work and your career, continuously looking for ways to add value to your community and Amido.
What you’ll bring to Amido
- Having a deep understanding of JavaScript
- Knowledge of end to end application. Being able to deliver solutions which can scale to thousands of users and utilise the best approach to develop components whilst delivering a large-scale distributed system
- Highly skilled at front-end engineering using both Typescript and ES6/7 various libraries and frameworks (React, Angular mainly), and CSS, Styled-Components, CSS-in-JS, Shadow-Dom, Web-Components
- Having an understanding of NodeJS, Express middleware and the whole ecosystem associated with it
- Having a clear understanding of REST and microservices architecture
- Being confident taking on challenges and being responsible for outcomes
- Retaining sound decision making and positive attitude under a heavy workload
- Understanding the way your project affects your client’s success and adds value to their business
- Successfully navigating through complex stakeholder relationships
- Creating a collaborative team environment where everyone’s opinion is heard, but knows when to be assertive, back down or escalate
- Comfortable owning meetings
- Experience in a consulting business or client facing role
What we offer you
- We will give you a place to strive and grow. You will have the opportunity to work on some super interesting, yet challenging projects with a highly-skilled team already in place
- We will give you autonomy over your work, and the opportunity to have a voice to help shape the projects you’re working on
- Our guiding values are reflected in everything we do here and we’re looking for likeminded people to join us and add to this already fantastic culture.
- We are a people-first business and we put people at the heart of everything we do here. Expect an annual training budget of £2k, some flexible working and lots of socials
- Always questioning is one of our core values, so be prepared to learn a lot, really quickly. You will be surrounded by a group of super smart problem solvers, so if you like to flex your knowledge, pick up new skills and technologies, this is the place for you
- Being agnostic means no place for extreme views here. You will be working with a bunch of humble, open-minded and curious people
- We have a pragmatic approach to doing things. You will learn how to be hands-on, practical and deal with challenges in a sensible way
Benefits Package
- We offer 27 days annual leave to employees, rising by 1 day each year up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Fully comprehensive private medical and life insurance to give you peace of mind
- We offer group income protection in the event of being unable to work, due to illness or injury
- You’ll receive a £2K annual training budget to help with your career development
- We offer a flexible working policy to ensure a good work life balance
- Employees receive a generous company contribution of 6% and 1:1 financial planning advice
- We offer a discounted monthly subscription which can be used at multiple gyms throughout the UK
- Employees can apply for an interest-free bike loan through Cyclescheme
- We offer a travel to work loan, where repayments are deducted monthly post-tax
- We facilitate an optional payroll giving benefit to the registered UK charity of your choice
Apply for this role
If you haven't had a response within two weeks, please assume that we won't be taking your application to the next stage on this occasion. We list all our roles on the Careers page so do keep checking the page in the coming months to see if anything else opens up.
