Senior Frontend Engineer

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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

What you'll have

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

Desirable: energy domain knowledge

Our stack

React (required)

TypeScript (required)

Next.js on Vercel (desirable)

GraphQL w/ Tanstack Query (desirable)

React Testing Library & vitest and/or msw (desirable)