Lead Front End React Developer with extensive React experience required to join one of our high profile projects on a permanent or contract basis

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading an agile workstream of React FE Developers on an eCommerce project, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning and estimations
• To be comfortable representing FE in a client-facing capacity
• Stay current with evolving standards and technologies, learning new skills as needed
• Comfortable to juggle a mix of hands-on/hands-off with Team Lead responsibilities, effective management of workload, mentoring junior members of the team, contributing to code reviews etc
• Proactive nature is a necessity, vocal when necessary in escalating issues and highlighting any areas that need wider team action
• Ability to converse confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Architectural decisions to be agreed with Front End Architect and implemented and maintained on the project to ensure consistency and quality

What we want from you:

• Mastery of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (ES6) adhering to industry defined coding standards
• Commercial experience of hands on React development, with a solid understanding of the core concepts including recent additions i.e. Hooks, Context API
• Solid understanding of state management technologies/approaches i.e. Redux, Flux
• Commercial Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
• Commercial experience of unit testing/Integration/end-to-end testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)
• Commercial experience of JavaScript ecosystem tooling such as linters/formatters/bundlers (we ESlint/Prettier/webpack)
• Experience of using CSS pre-processors, CSS-in-JS (we use SASS and styled components)
• Commercial experience of using version control tooling (GIT) in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Good understanding/awareness of Accessibility, SEO Principles, Security, Performance best practices
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
• Experience in bringing multiple viewport responsive and adaptive web designs to life

If you know some of this even better!

• Knowledge of Node and NextJS
• Additional Commercial Ecommerce platform experience – Magento/Hybris /Shopify
• Experience of working on Java/Node/C#/PHP projects would be extremely advantageous
• Experience with content management platforms such as AEM
• Commercial experience in building headless solutions

Wunderman Thompson Commerce inspire people to shop online through digital solutions, driving growth for world-leading brands and retailers.

How? We create, support, and improve digital shopper journeys, across leading channels including retailers, direct-to-consumer (D2C), marketplaces (Amazon and beyond), and social channels. And we work with some of the biggest and most exciting brands around, such as Calvin Klein, MAC, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell, Tiffany & Co. and Tommy Hilfiger.

Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, Wunderman Thompson Commerce are unique in our ability to connect world-class strategic thinking and creative insight with deep executional capability across technology and operations. Together, this enables us to deliver winning commerce solutions across all major digital routes to market worldwide.

We’re part of WPP, a creative transformation company who use the power of creativity to build better futures for people, planet, clients and communities and is recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Services.

Tell me more! We are a diverse team of 1700+ commerce experts across more than 20 offices worldwide, including state-of-the-art offices in Watford, Central London and an eCommerce Centre of Excellence in Lisbon. We believe that growth through commerce begins with connected customer experiences that amplify the brand and drive business outcomes. We excel at orchestrating commerce touchpoints through intelligent deployment and integration of world class technology from strategic partners like Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, BigCommerce and commerce tools, as well as driving sales from marketplaces and retailers. We have recently expanded our capabilities to include NN4M, specialists in Mobile Commerce and Satalia, experts in Artificial Intelligence.

Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business – people who are inspired, energetic and straight-talking, and who really want to understand both our clients and their customers. We are happiest when we are innovating and shaping the future of commerce. We live and breathe our values and take pride in what our people achieve, empowering and respecting every one of them.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’ successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

At Wunderman Thompson, a WPP company, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect. As leaders and creative partners across industries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that this commitment inspires growth and delivers equitable outcomes for everyone as well as the clients and communities we serve.