Frontend Engineer

Title:  Frontend Engineer

Location: UK Remote

Position: Perm

About Petlab Co

Petlab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in 2018, Petlab Co. is currently on track to drive over $120m in sales in 2022 without any external funding. They have a loyal community of over 120,000+ pets and over 250 thousand owners have had their lives positively impacted by innovative Petlab Co. products. Petlab Co. is a vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-centric team who value and reward high performing players. It is an ideal place for a candidate who is ambitious, hardworking, loves animals, is looking to rapidly progress their career, and would enjoy working in a vibrant environment with smart co-workers and friendly office dogs!

A day In The Life...

Reporting to our Lead Frontend Engineer you’ll join a small but growing agile team of highly talented engineers working on building scalable solutions for our ecommerce platfrom. You’ll be pivotal in keeping our customer experience world class when it comes to delivery and design. We’re looking for someone who has had varying experiences in the frontend technology space and has knowledge on improving application performance and scalability.

We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. This is an exciting opportunity to have a huge impact in rocket ship of a business with a real purpose! If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!

Your day to day will look a little bit like this…

• Collaborate with team lead on the Petlab products to understand the context behind what you’re building;  
• Collaborating with tech lead and designing technical solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs; 
• Ensuring the platform is performant, secure, scalable, robust, reliable and high quality, well tested code in the critical areas; 
• Planning and evolving the technical architecture of the platform with the teams; 
• Championing and sharing best practices to improve the team and code over time;

Requirements

What You Need..

• 2+ years working as an engineer on frontend technology (React and JavaScript); 
• Excellent understanding and experience of programming languages and paradigms (object oriented, functional);
• Knowledge of software testing practices and tools for maintaining code quality.
• Integration experience via RESTful and GraphQL API’s (Shopify, BuilderIO etc...) for workflow and data; 
• Experience building quality, and highly scalable front end applications; 
• Excellent appreciation for UI/UX design;
• Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment; 
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals; 
  

Our front-end technology stack:  

• JavaScript 
• Next.js
• React.js 
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• GraphQL
• AWS
  

Desirable:  

• Experience in Next.js;
• Experience with CMS like Strapi; 
• Experience working with the eCommerce domain and mobile application architecture; 
• Experience with CRM systems and marketing automation, payment processing and customer engagement; 
• Experience with AWS Lambda;

Benefits

The Good Stuff…

• Generous Annual Leave - 28 days + public and bank holidays
• Bonus- based on performance and paid out April and October
• Flexible Working Hours – We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while traveling, or in the office!
• Company Equipment – Laptop issued to you so you're all set from day 1.
• Get Your Read On – We love to promote and encourage personal & professional development so we couldn't be happier to buy books of your choice via amazon or pay for audible subscription.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Pension Scheme – contributions towards your pension scheme!
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave – because time with new family members is important!
• Puppy Therapy – working in partnership with Paws in Work to provide a boost of oxytocin every quarter.
• Cycle2Work Scheme – Government initiative which offers a cost-effective way to buy new cycling equipment.
• Discount Vouchers & Gym Memberships – get discounts at a whole range of retailers and gym memberships through our provider, Sodexo.
• Free breakfast, fruits and snacks – refuel and revitalise with free munchies in the office.
• Environment – dogs are welcome!
  
  

Petlab Co is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage all applications irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, marital status, and disability. We believe that diversity is at the heart of innovation and we welcome passionate candidates form all backgrounds. Come join the family and see for yourself!