Senior Front End Software Developer
About Unbiased
At Unbiased, our mission is simple – we want to help people take on life’s big decisions with ease. How? By connecting them with the ideal professionals to help them.
We have come to realise there just isn’t enough guidance out there for people. From arranging care for a loved one, or arranging a funeral, we face tough decisions every day. That’s where Unbiased comes in. Our service enables millions of people to make confident choices for all of life’s big decisions by providing them with the best professionals and the quickest, simplest solutions for their needs.
Working at Unbiased means working with intelligent, motivated people who believe in what we do. We have a fun, relaxed environment in which we are simply trusted to get stuff done.
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Senior Front End Developer to join our London based scrum team. The Technology team is primarily offshore but are looking to build out a London scrum team to be closer to our internal customers and for the diversity that it brings. The London team is responsible for the Single Page App that our professional subscribers use to manage their business with us.
We have been investing in our Tech stack and have moved to the latest frameworks and tools such as vue.js, graphql, docker and Kubernetes as well as migrating to Google Cloud Platform. We are on a journey so are looking for a great developer but also someone that can bring their own expertise to push forward our overall technical excellence.
Skills & Experience
Significant experience with a Javascipt framework for front end development preferably Vue or React and preferably within a Single Page Application context
- Be an active part of the engineering community team and collaborating with other developers
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment
- Experience working with modern front end frameworks, APIs and GraphQL
- Some knowledge of Single Page Apps, App/Play store and Apache Cordova or similar technology
- Coding best practice for performance, security and other architectural best practices
- Experience working with Git
- Ability to quickly implement solutions from idea to release
Technology Stack
These are the key technologies you will use:
- Languages/frameworks: Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS/LeSS, Webpack
- Environment: Google Cloud Platform, Linux, Git, JIRA
How we’ll take care of you:
- Competitive Salary
- Brilliant Pension Contributions
- Investment in your Development: Alongside in-house training, you’ll be allocated £1,000 a year to invest in your career development
- Investment in your Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is a top priority for us, and you’ll be able to benefit from fully paid subscription to a Wellbeing App
The Usual Benefits:
- Salary: Range from £55-70k, dependent on experience
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Holiday: you’ll be allocated plenty of holiday to ensure that you have enough time to recharge, work-life balance is super important to us here
- Flexible working: we’ll work with you to find the balance of office-based work and remote working
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Life insurance
Equal Opportunity
The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Unbiased are made up of broad range of talented people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
Data Privacy
Personal information about unsuccessful candidates will be held for 12 months after the recruitment exercise has been completed, it will then be destroyed or deleted. We retain de-personalised statistical information about applicants to help inform our recruitment activities, but no individuals are identifiable from that data.
Once a person has taken up employment with Unbiased, we will compile a file relating to their employment. The information contained in this will be kept secure and will only be used for purposes directly relevant to that person’s employment. Once their employment with Unbiased has ended, we will retain the file in accordance with the requirements of our retention schedule and then delete it.
Agencies
As much as we appreciate the help, we’re using our own direct sourcing methods or we’re working with one of our carefully selected Agency Partners on this vacancy. To find out a little more about how we partner with agencies please email talent@unbiased.co.uk FAO our Talent Manager, speculative phone calls will not be taken by our team neither will CV submissions without Unbiased or the candidates expressed consent.
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Our Values
Want some insight into how we work as a team? Here are our culture behaviours that are at the core of everything we do:
Be relentless about progress
To be the best at what we do, we push things forward with tenacity.
We focus only on those projects that will genuinely move the dial for the business. If something is a nice-to-do –don’t do it.
There will always be blockers, we always find ways around them.
We realise there is a huge benefit to acting today rather than waiting for tomorrow.
Enjoy the journey
We are excited about what we are doing at Unbiased! We are helping people and shaping a successful business at the same time.
We are achieving great things and we are surrounded by great people. Enjoy it.
Celebrate successes and give kudos to your peers for a job well done, no matter how small. All of these wins are driving our growth.
Share and seek input
Our most valuable asset is our people. We have a team of smart people working towards the same vision, so when we have an idea or an insight, we should be actively sharing it with others.
We embrace challenge and opinions and are more interested in learning than being right.
We know that always making independent, unanimous decisions won’t help us scale effectively.
We actively seek out different views and perspectives to maximise the chances of making the right decision and achieving success.
Own it and get it done
We are doers. When we say we are going to do something, we do our best to deliver quickly and on time.
If we can’t, we manage expectations and communicate.
We don’t point blame or find excuses. We are accountable and take responsibility for our mistakes and when we don’t deliver. We own our failures and learn from them.
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