Senior Frontend Engineer

We're making energy fair, clean, and simple for all using technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as the flexibility team’s first frontend engineer, establish the team’s frontend capability, lead the team’s frontend technical direction and represent the team to the cross-team community of frontend engineers
• Build and own a diverse range of customer-facing user journeys, enabling customers to onboard, control, and analyse their low carbon tech
• Build and own internal-facing interfaces for stakeholder-collaborators and experimental prototypes
• Interface with established mobile teams by providing WebViews for emerging mobile customer journeys
• Collaborate with our internal design team to integrate our designs into the wider Octopus design system ‘Coral’
• Carry out product discovery by working closely with our Product Manager and stakeholders from across the organisation
• Build highly reusable interfaces that enable rapid response to new opportunities

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with our stack (listed below)
• Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
• Confidence owning the development cycle (request, requirements gathering, technical proposal, technical execution, deployment and monitoring.)
• Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually
• An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
• The ability to develop websites that meet strong accessibility guidelines
• Experience building scalable, performant sites that handle high levels of traffic well