Senior Front Developer (Digital) in Bexhill-on-Sea

Join to apply for the Senior Front Developer (Digital) role at Vxplore. We're a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. Over the past few years, we've made significant investments in our data and tech capabilities, particularly within our CIO function. Our CIO team is at the forefront of driving innovation and ensuring our technology infrastructure supports our ambitious goals. We've nurtured our 4Cs culture, fostering collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.

The CIO team plays a crucial role in this journey, working on cutting-edge projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement. We provide insurance to nearly four million customers, but we know there's even bigger opportunity out there. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you. Our CIO team is always looking for passionate individuals who are eager to make a difference and contribute to our success.

What does the role involve?

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Digital Developer to work across all aspects of the software development lifecycle; providing leadership, supporting and delivering high quality software changes across Hastings' systems and platforms. You will be responsible for working across all aspects of the software development lifecycle and operating within agile teams from application support and change functions. As a senior member of the team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our technical direction and supporting others to deliver high-quality solutions.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Providing technical leadership, making informed decisions on behalf of the team, and effectively managing stakeholder expectations.
• Designing, building, and modifying complex software systems in line with agreed standards and best practices.
• Estimating engineering tasks and offering guidance to peers to ensure efficient delivery.
• Quickly and effectively debugging and testing complex code to maintain performance and reliability.
• Mentoring junior team members, offering support, sharing knowledge, and helping them grow in their roles.

Skills We Would Love You To Have:

• Hands-on experience in an IT role supporting and developing enterprise-level, customer and employee-facing web applications.
• Expertise in JavaScript, with a strong focus on React JS, this is essential.
• UI/UX development experience, with a keen eye for design and usability.
• Extensive knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML/HTML5, XML, DHTML, CSS/CSS3, SASS, LESS, JavaScript, React JS, Redux, Flex, jQuery, JSON, Bootstrap.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript fundamentals, including object models, DOM manipulation, event handling, data structures, algorithms, and JSX.
• Current experience with ReactJS workflows such as Flux, Redux, Create React App, and data structure libraries.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and token-based authentication (e.g., JWT).
• Familiarity with popular frontend development tools such as Node, NPM, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and performance testing frameworks like Jest and React Testing Library.
• Experience with performance and memory tuning using relevant tools.

What We Offer:

Join us and you'll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company, and community. As one of our colleagues, you'll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we'll give you all the support, training and development you need. Not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards, and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice.

• Reward: Attractive salary based on experience (pay reviews also completed each year).
• Flexible Working: We champion a flexible and hybrid working approach.
• Competitive Bonus Scheme: All colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus.
• Physical Wellbeing: We fund our colleagues to be able to claim against everyday health care through our healthcare cash plan.
• Financial Wellbeing: We provide you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover and income protection at no extra cost, pension contribution match up to 10%.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.