Senior Frontend Developer

ECOM
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Senior Frontend Developer (React.Js) - Manchester, £63k + benefitsECOM are supporting a long-standing company on their search for a Senior Frontend Developer for their Manchester based team. The client are an already established and growing eCommerce company in Manchester that have ambitions to become Europe’s leading online retailer in their industry.The technology department is evolving to cross functional product-based teams that use data to inform decisions and as a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’d be responsible for technically leading your team towards a cloud based, micro-frontend architecture and continuous delivery environment.The current team is collaborative and cross functional, they value diversity and teamwork over individual heroics, embrace an agile mindset and use data to inform their decisions so you can expect to work alongside product owners, designers, testers, data engineers and other software engineers that are passionate about using quality practices like TDD, pair programming and DevOps.Tech:- TypeScript (React, Next, Node)- AWS, Kubernetes- Agile, DevOps and TDDOur client are recruiting across the levels and offer an excellent progression plan that enables employees to increase their salary year on year. For this one the starting salary is up to £63,000 plus excellent progression opportunities, company benefits and the option to regularly work from home.If you are interested in this opportunity or would like to know more please APPLY NOW and I will be in touch ASAP.

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