Senior Front-End Engineer

<p><strong><a href="https://www.wpp.com/about" target="_blank">WPP</a> is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.</strong></p> <p><strong>Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.</strong></p> <p><strong>We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.</strong></p> <p><strong>WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&amp;G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 317 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.</strong></p><p>#LI-Hybrid</p> <p><strong>Why we're hiring:</strong></p> <p>The vision of the WPP Open Platform is to create a common development and architecture framework, with supporting infrastructure, for the development of digital products across WPP. The platform will provide the single point for access to world class technology and data for our agencies; allowing them to build and scale products and applications, then share them across the business, improving visibility and collaboration. With Open, we expect to address our client needs faster and reduce the time to market for new capability.</p> <p>As a Senior Front End Engineer, your primary focus will be building the ‘Client side’ of our product, working alongside back-end developers to create a comprehensive digital platform. An expert in the domain and able to develop frontend systems with a high degree of accuracy, you will consistently develop code that is aligned with the overall vision to ensure the highest quality development is always achieved and it creates a great user experience. You will have excellent knowledge of the DevOps process and can work with large and complex codebases to ensure our product is leading edge.</p> <p><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You will work very closely with the rest of the team to ensure our systems are fit for purpose through a nuanced understanding of the business context and the factors that drive the product life cycle.</li> <li>You will work closely with the Engineering Lead &amp; Product leads across the other product areas in the business</li> <li>You will occasionally provide designs and solutions for critical projects that allow the development teams to deliver software on time and to agreed functional and non-functional specifications</li> <li>You will influence the management of technical debt across projects; making the right calls between balancing pragmatic delivery and compromising implementation patterns</li> <li>You will be the senior contact/escalation point for front-end people issues, hiring and working with operational leads to effectively onboard new team members</li> <li>You will regularly take part in the Product definition</li> <li>You will conduct regular code review of your colleges and ensure PRs are completed on time</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll need:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Significant experience of working with senior stakeholders to manage expectations and provide technical insight</li> <li>Significant and demonstrable Cloud Computing experience with knowledge of Cloud Native products</li> <li>Significant and demonstrable experience of using Unix / Linux based Operating Systems</li> <li>An ability to understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions rapidly and effectively</li> <li>Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development (Jest, Enzyme) alongside use of automated test frameworks, mocking/stubbing</li> <li>Proven experience of project working and commercial development processes - particularly Agile methodologies</li> <li>Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)</li> <li>Experience of working with Operational tooling surrounding the SDLC such as IAC, CI/CD</li> <li>Significant and demonstrable experience designing microservice architecture patterns</li> <li>Experience of working with API implementation patterns and interfaces</li> <li>Ideally, you have used GCP extensively</li> <li>3+ years of experience as a Front-end Engineer (Front-end: React, Redux, rxjs, Angular, Vue)</li> <li>Experience of developing responsive web apps</li> <li>Experience in writing semantic HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processors like Sass and Less</li> <li>Understanding of app/browser performance improvement techniques and potential cross-browser issues</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p> <p><stro