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. We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity. 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
You will collaborate with our UK project team, so we’ll need you to be available until 18:00 PL
What we offer:
- Salary depending on presented skills:
- Work equipment with delivery to your door
- Opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world
We are a part of VML Enterprise Solutions. Learn more about our us on dedicated social media: Instagram VML Enterprise Solutions, our LinkedIn page and YouTube channel.
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
