Frontend Lead Engineer

Your New Role At NewDay
(This could also be known externally as an engineering manager, but internally your title would be a lead engineer).
As a Lead Engineer you\’ll be managing and leading a frontend squad who are responsible for building and looking after our customer acquisition journeys (carded and loan products) and our marketing sites that have a reach to multimillions of customers. With another new retail additional to our portfolio, your team will also be building that entire customer journey from the ground up.
The role is blend of people management responsibilities with a hands-on and focused approach to ensure continuous improvement of our products from both customer and technical perspectives.
Join us and be part of an innovative environment where your contributions make a real impact. We value curiosity, passion, and the drive to create outstanding products.
You\’ll deliver

• Leadership of an engineering team inclusive of people management, with the goal of a high-performance, self-sufficient, autonomous team
• Learning, growth, and mentorship of the engineering team to accelerate their career-growth and encourage them to progress
• Facilitation and collaboration with engineers, product owners, and other colleagues to seek exciting and results-oriented problems for delivering value
• Ownership of the production operation and monitoring of products inline with SLAs
• Clear, maintainable code that will scale
• Challenge team processes, looking for ways to improve them

About You

• A strong product focused mentality
• Ability to lead and develop engineering teams from newbies to high-performant engineers
• Care about quality and know what it means to ship high-quality, human-readable, well-tested code and the importance of TDD
• Self-motivated and value team success over personal success
• Diplomatic, emotionally intelligent, have an ability to listen and are open to others\’ points of view
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can talk tech to non-tech people

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:

• Team management – Including 121\’s
• Extensive React experience
• Integrating with services via RESTful or GraphQL APIs
• Knowledge on Front End Frameworks Eg Next JS, Remix
• Strong testing experience from code quality through to security, customer journeys and accessibility
• Excellent knowledge of writing semantic, accessible and modular front-end code
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Designing and implementing high-quality cloud software solutions, ideally with Azure

And would love you to know or learn:

• Practical experience setting-up and running CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions
• Using Storybook, atomic design principles and design language systems
• Backend for Front End (BFF) Architecture
• Monitoring and observability to maintain high quality products

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