Senior Web Engineer

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  • London  
    London, United Kingdom
    perm  
  • Company
    AKQA  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    n/a  
    Wage
    Undisclosed
  • Closing date
    12 January 2022  
    Posted on
    12 November 2021  

At AKQA we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

Located in London (Farringdon), United Kingdom, you will be working in a progressive, meritocratic environment, with access to world renowned thought leadership from all disciplines and working with some of the brightest minds in their fields.

You should be an established Web technologies developer and practitioner of the latest web technologies; building best in class web applications, serving users on the modern web landscape, whatever that may be.

Role Requirements:

  • Hands on development on medium to large scale projects.
  • Work closely with others to ensure good collaboration across all disciplines and to facilitate the solving of day-to-day challenges.
  • Collaborate, coach and mentor other team members whilst maintaining high levels of productivity.
  • Understand client’s business goals and objectives in order to build the right technical solutions.
  • Minimise technical risk and ensure a high-quality output.
  • Implement testing strategies and promote rapid but high-quality development practices.
  • Identify bottlenecks within delivery processes as they occur and be able to help influence behaviours within the team to help resolve these and protect the technical delivery.
  • Operating in Lean and Agile methodologies or Hybrid approaches.
  • Technical Skills and knowledge:
    • Advanced Vanilla JS and ECMAScript Latest.
    • The latest JavaScript libraries and frameworks e.g. React, Vue, TypeScript, Angular or similar.
    • Advanced CSS and associated tools, pre-processors, technologies and animations.
    • Node, common node libraries and frameworks, npm module consumption and publishing.
    • Cloud Services (AWS, Azure or GCP) and serverless approaches such as cloud functions, API services and the “JAMStack”.
    • HTML, Web standards and Accessibility (a11y).
    • Responsive web applications.
    • (No)SQL DBs or Cloud hosted RDS.
    • Development and consumption of HTTP APIs such as RESTful and GraphQL.
    • Web APIs.
    • PWAs and Offline first development.
    • Build, and code quality tools, including tests and test automation.
    • CI/CD Pipeline approaches and technologies.
    • Webapp performance, profiling and testing.
    • Writing and architecting modularised, reusable code.
    • i18n.

Qualities And Characteristics:

  • Computer Science Degree or equivalent industry experience.
  • 5+ years’ industry experience.
  • Advocate of Technical Delivery methodologies such as Agile (SCRUM & KANBAN) and opinion on the strengths of each.
  • Advocate for improvements to processes, quality, and security.
  • Analytical and positive mindset with a personable and professional approach.
  • Sharp attention to detail and a passion for new technology.
  • Be able to talk for Technology to Non-technical audiences such as clients, stakeholders, and non-technical team members (especially UX & Creative).
  • Be able to talk for Yourself, expressing opinions backed up by reasoned argument.
  • Experience that excites us:
    • Canvas and WebGL.
    • Alexa or other Home assistant application development.
    • Multi-user, gaming or Dual screen casting experiences.
    • VCT testing.
    • Machine learning, chatbots/conversation solutions, AI services integration.
    • Personalisation and Experimentation.
    • Headless CMS and other SaaS product integrations.

AKQA is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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