Locations: United Kingdom
Seniority: Senior II -> Principal
Salary: £53,000 - 65,000K (sen II)

The role

We need a Javascript authority who understands the core of the language as well as how it is used through various popular frameworks and libraries.

Activities

In addition to your day-to-day development work you may be involved in:

• Pre-sales and discovery: activities with clients to offer the technical voice in the creative decision-making process.

• Project ceremonies: joining regular stand-ups, retrospectives and demo meetings - both internally and with our clients.

• Collaboration and support: helping others to integrate effectively into the team and be productive as quickly as possible.

• Project initialisation: working with our team leads and architects to set up the approach and architecture for new projects.

What we want from you

At Inviqa we pride ourselves on cultivating a positive working environment. As such, we’re looking for people who are:

• Passionate and proactive: you care about doing the best job possible and can make recommendations on our technical approach and how we work together.

• A team player: you love being part of a team and working towards common goals. You are approachable, empathetic towards your peers, and open-minded about their ideas.

• A good communicator: you can communicate clearly in English to your team and clients.

• Multi-tasker: The ability to context-switch, though we will try to minimise this so you can focus on your current tasks.

• Adaptable and keen to learn: You’re open to and excited about learning new things and are comfortable adapting to new ways of working as we evolve.

At a senior level, we would expect you to have solid knowledge of, and commercial experience with, most of the following:

• Advanced ES6+ Vanilla JavaScript, including TypeScript

• Developing and consuming APIs (REST and GraphQL) with Axios or other

• A modern front-end JavaScript library, such as React or Vue

• A modern full-stack framework such as Next.js or Nuxt

• Testing libraries and tools such as Jest

• Feature Flag driven development

• Component libraries along with tools such as Storybook or Fractal

• CSS3 with SASS or Tailwind

• Web Accessibility, performance & SEO

• Working with creative and design teams

• Good with at least one task runner (Webpack, Gulp etc.)

• Package management with yarn or npm

• Version control with git and familiar with the PR process.

We would also expect you to have:

• Previous commercial development experience, ideally within several different working environments.

• Experience of working on a variety of projects of different sizes, durations and agile methodologies.

• Awareness of Jamstack, SSG’s, MACH and composable commerce.

For more about what we expect from our engineers and how we support engineering progression, see Inviqa’s Engineering Progression Framework.

Our technology

At Inviqa we work on a wide variety of exciting client projects; there’s no single stack. However, these are the dominant tools we use and you could get the chance to work with:

Languages: Vanilla JavaScript | TypeScript | PHP | Golang | CSS

Frameworks & Libs: Node.js | React | Next.js | Vue | Nuxt | Storybook | Symfony

Platforms: Magento | Drupal | Spryker | Sylius | BigCommerce | Contentful | Algolia

Testing: Behat | PHPSpec | PHPUnit | Jest | Cypress

CI / CD: Docker | Scrutinizer | Blackfire | Codeship | Prometheus | ArgoCD | Jenkins

Hosting: AWS | DigitalOcean | Platform.sh | Acquia

Although our work varies, we strive to build consistently high-quality products:

• We follow Agile principles through Scrum and Lean Kanban.

• We have Engineering Guidelines for best practices for all work throughout the department.

• We write tests for our code; it’s second-nature.

• We have a constructive peer review process for all work.

• Our DevOps team ensures we have automation throughout the development lifecycle with dynamic environments, automated tests, code quality checks, and performance metrics.

Why Inviqa
Inviqa is part of the Havas CX Network; a Global network launched in October 2020, bringing together the strongest capabilities and expertise across the entire CX ecosystems.Organised under a common structure, governance, methodology and mission, we bring together more than 2,000 CX specialists across 20 countries and combine the power of data, technology, and design to create meaningful experiences and deliver value across the entire customer journey. The network leverages the power of rich insights, user-centric technology, and experience-led design to transform business performance for our clients and partners.

We: 

• Offer a diverse and supportive team at Inviqa, the digital experience agency within Havas CX
• Offer 25 days holiday, 3 days off between Christmas and New Year, and your birthday off
• Offer flexibility around your working hours and patterns: work in a way that suits you
• Offer a large degree of autonomy and progression along with support to develop
  your skills through our generous training budgets and the chance to attend/present
  at relevant conferences
• Provide the opportunity to participate in impactful work for some amazing world-
  famous brands like Virgin, Radley, Arsenal FC, Aman, CitiBank and many others
• Offer a role within an international network dedicated to delivering meaningful
  experiences across the entire customer journey
• Enhanced maternity leave (6 weeks 100% of salary then 20 weeks 50% of salary).
• Offer enhanced paternity leave (4 weeks fully paid) and
• Up to 5 days paid emergency parental leave
• Eye Care vouchers
• Free parking 
• Free breakfast, fruits and hot drinks
• A generous learning budget and access to Training and development from Havas University.
• Pension scheme, access to great offices and collaboration spaces.

Eligibility
You must be eligible to take up full-time permanent employment in the UK.
Due to the high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.