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Front End Engineer

Remote jobRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Feb 2025

About the role

Front End Engineer – Build Innovative Solutions with Cutting-edge Tech

Who are we?

We’re Zensai. As a solution, we are the only fully comprehensive talent development suite built for Microsoft 365 and Teams. Our products, Learn365, Engage365, and Perform365, empower people and businesses to unleash their full potential through personalized learning, engagement, and performance management. As a company, we are a talented group of more than 200+ individuals with a mission to put people in control of their own success — empowering them every day to be their best version. Truly focused. Truly motivated. Truly thriving.

We believe in putting people over platform, centering authentic relationship building with our customers, and helping to transform the way people grow smarter.

What’s it like to work with Zensai?

In one word: fun. In a few more words: dynamic, collaborative, innovative, with a strong helping of continuous learning.

At Zensai, we have a strong intercultural foundation for our global team, which requires thoughtful collaboration and intentional teamwork. We’re dedicated to creating and upholding an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and supported. Our team members are passionate about their work and are driven to achieve goals, both personally and professionally. And though we believe in working hard, we also believe in having fun and enjoying ourselves while we empower individuals across the world.

Intrigued to learn more? Check out our About us page.

Tell me about the role.

We thought you would never ask! The Front End Engineer is part of our Product Engineering team and is responsible for developing and maintaining front-end components of our web applications. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet our customers' needs.

A day in the life of a Front End Engineer.

As a Front End Engineer at Zensai, your day begins with a brief catch-up session with the development team, where you discuss the progress on current tasks and upcoming work in Azure DevOps. Here, you also address any blockers that may arise, emphasizing collaboration as the key to ensuring smooth progress.

Next, you dive into your tasks from the agile board. This could involve writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code, participating in pull request and code reviews, and contributing to product backlog refinement sessions as needed. Your input helps shape the direction of the project and ensures alignment with team goals. Additionally, you collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test and maintain robust web applications using React and Python.

Throughout the day, you engage in Teams calls with fellow team members to collaborate on shared tasks or debug any issues that arise. Clear communication and teamwork are essential in resolving challenges and moving projects forward.

You also play a crucial role in monitoring the continuous integration pipeline, ensuring that any blockers are promptly addressed to maintain the efficiency of the development process. You work closely with UI/UX designers to implement visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces, QA engineers to ensure the work done is testable and meets requirements, whilst integrating user-facing elements with server-side logic to ensure seamless enjoyable user experiences.

Ensuring a level of automated test coverage in applications to identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and other technical problems is also part of your responsibilities.

Where is the job based?

This position is based in Wrexham, UK with the ability to work remotely or in a hybrid fashion.

What skills or experience are we looking for?

For us, the most important thing is that you have a mindset characterized by curiosity, drive, and ambition.

However, this specific role would be a great fit if you have: