Software Engineer
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Compensation:
£376-£419 per day(PAYE Inside IR35)
Start Date:
Asap
Are you a software engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real impact? Join our Messenger Web Communications team in London and be part of the team that owns the core messaging experience for Messenger on web
As a member of this team, you will work on exciting projects and as a team define the future of Messenger on the web.
Top 3 non-negotiable skills:
● UI development experience
● JavaScript and react
● HTML, CSS
Software Engineer, Front End Responsibilities
- Work closely with our PM and design teams to define feature specifications and build the next generation of compelling consumer-facing features leveraging frameworks such as React
- Complete large features end-to-end (each with many tasks) and responsible of areas in the system independently without guidance
- Proactively identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, product area and/or systems
- Work closely with Health & Foundations and infrastructure to build a sustainable and performant app
- Take responsibility for the engineering craft of your projects
- Help make the people around you more efficient by identifying issues slowing the team down and driving changes to address them
- Proactively find problems or make suggestions and drive to resolution, often without guidance.
- Seek out ways to improve the components or systems you work on to facilitate easier development of new features.
- Build front-end frameworks that will allow other product teams to build faster and with higher quality
- Implement the features and user interfaces of enterprise products that are used by the entire company
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience designing and completing medium to large features independently without guidance
- 3+ years of experience identifying and driving changes to applications as needed
- 3+ years of programming experience including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Experience in web technologies: HTML and CSS
- Experience in writing reusable and high-performance user interface components
- Object Oriented JavaScript Frameworks experience
- Experience in architectural design for complex front-end systems
- Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
- Experience in performance debugging and benchmarking
- Experience building web applications
- Shipped at least one large-scale product to production, supporting millions of active users
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with React
Client Description
Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.
