Senior Frontend Engineer in Essex

Secondmind is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fair, equitable treatment throughout the recruitment process and beyond. We actively champion applications from all backgrounds because we believe the best work happens when people can bring their authentic, original, and best selves to the team.

About Secondmind: Secondmind builds data-efficient engineering AI software that helps teams make better design and performance optimisation decisions faster. Our product reduces simulation and testing requirements without compromising quality, accelerating development and enabling more sustainable practices.

Our positive working culture is founded on a collaborative environment that encourages teamwork and innovation. We foster open communication and cross-functional collaboration, enabling diverse teams to work together to solve complex challenges. Our flexible workplace plan ensures a healthy work-life balance, accommodating various working styles and personal needs, whether through remote work options or adaptable schedules.

We also prioritise personal and professional growth by offering development opportunities, including training and mentorship. This nurturing environment empowers our employees to thrive, continuously learn, and contribute meaningfully to our mission of advancing system design and calibration with our data-efficient machine learning solutions.

Founded in 2016 and supported by investors such as Mazda Motor Corporation, Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge and Cambridge Innovation Capital, Secondmind was recently recognised with the Automotive Testing Technology International 'Alternative Powertrain Test Innovation of the Year Award 2024'; selected for the Tech Nation Future Fifty scale-up program, and named by Bloomberg as one of the UK's 25 Startups to Watch 2024.

About the role: As a core member of our product development team, you will work hand-in-hand with UX designers, product managers, and fellow engineers to develop production-ready web applications, which include sophisticated data visualisation. As a skilled React developer with a proven record of delivering robust and secure front ends, you will be part of a cross-functional, agile team, which is shaping the future of our flagship user interfaces.

What will you be responsible for?

• Delivering web applications that are secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, performant, intuitive, and visually engaging.
• Transforming complex datasets into compelling visual stories.
• Ensuring a foundation of reliability through automated tests, both unit and end-to-end.
• Embracing ownership from conceptual design through deployment and beyond.
• Contributing to raising our collective frontend standards through a pragmatic, principles-driven approach to technology.
• Collaborating with teammates, sharing knowledge, and improving how we build and maintain our frontend systems.
• Advocating for tools and frameworks based on their proven ability to solve our specific challenges.
• Championing a product-minded approach that goes beyond task completion to ensure our product development is finely tuned to our customers' needs.

What skills, experience, and qualifications do you need to succeed in this role?

• Experience with the React framework and proficiency in TypeScript.
• Familiarity with version control systems like GitHub.
• Ability to translate Figma-based design prototypes, with openness to closer, more iterative collaboration with designers.
• Familiarity with CSS-in-JS libraries such as Styled Components.
• Advocacy and implementation of industry best practices in frontend engineering including automated testing, using frameworks such as Jest and React Testing Library.

Our culture - What we can offer you: We offer a working environment that is inclusive, stimulates innovation and continuous learning, and thrives on growth and change. Our culture is underpinned by our values; they are what we stand for, part of our DNA. They help us to attract and retain the right talent and customers, help us make the right decisions and clarify how we should all behave and treat one another:

• Delight every customer (Customers)
• No bar too high (Excellence)
• Give more than take (Sustainability)
• Make the impossible, possible (Innovation)
• Celebrate differences, act as one (Inclusion)

We also offer a number of benefits including:

• Competitive salary - reviewed annually
• 25 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays
• TGIF: The last Friday of every month is a half day for our employees
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance of 4x salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Eyecare Policy
• Dental Cash Plan
• Stock Options (where applicable)
• Free 24-hour access on-site gym
• Discount Shopping & Wellbeing Platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Values Award Scheme
• Cambridge Botanic Garden membership
• Social events, game nights and sports groups

We are an equal opportunities employer, and aim to ensure all candidates are treated equally and fairly through the application process and beyond. We actively encourage applicants from under-represented backgrounds, and encourage our people to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.