Junior developer with front-end experience, Tussell
£42.5-50k
2-3 days a week in office (Hoxton, London)
Trusted insights on government contracts and spend
Be an early applicant
Trusted insights on government contracts and spend
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£42.5-50k
2-3 days a week in office (Hoxton, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To close a critical gap in the market: access to clear, reliable insight on government contracts and spending.
Role
Who you are
- JavaScript fundamentals: You have experience with modern JavaScript, its ecosystem, like Node and Yarn, and how to work with its libraries and frameworks as part of front-end code
- React practitioner: You have practical experience with React (we use React 19, functional components and hooks) and a good eye for UI detail, including spacing, consistency, accessibility and responsive behaviour
- Rails-literate: You're familiar with Ruby on Rails, including views and partials for rendering data, and you're comfortable debugging UI issues using browser dev tools
- CSS/design oriented: Write clean, maintainable CSS to implement responsive, accessible UI designs, using utility-first frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS) and modern layout techniques (Flexbox, Grid) within the established webpage design approach and keen to contribute further improvements
- Tested and collaborative: You've done some unit testing of JavaScript (Jest, React Testing Library or similar) and are familiar with Git and collaborative workflows, including branches, pull requests and code review
- Ready to grow: You're confident working independently on small-to-medium tasks as you get up to speed with the codebases and willing to ask for help; we'll teach you the specific tools, libraries and frameworks used for our specific stack
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Dominic Sayers, Chief Technology Officer
- Tussell is seeking a junior developer with some front-end experience to join our product engineering team
- There's a great opportunity here to help shape how our users experience Tussell's market-leading data
- We're re-imagining our user interfaces to make complex public procurement datasets easier to explore, filter and understand, and a junior developer joining now will have plenty of scope to make a visible, lasting impact on the product
- The ideal candidate will have some hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and a keen interest in user interface design
- At Tussell we use frameworks, including React
- Js, along with Ruby on Rails for our web applications and APIs
- You don't need years of experience; you could have recently completed a software bootcamp or have a year or two of industry experience
- We're looking for a good grasp of software development fundamentals and the enthusiasm to learn our specific design patterns and domain
- You'll work closely with our product, design and engineering team to make sure the interfaces we build genuinely serve our users' needs
- We're looking for a junior developer with front-end experience to join the team maintaining our Ruby on Rails and React.js applications. This is a hands-on role from day one, working on the UI layer of a live, data-heavy product, with support and mentoring from senior engineers as you learn our specific design patterns and domain
- Build and maintain front end code, including JavaScript using frameworks such as React components and Stimulus controllers, within our existing patterns
- Work in our Rails views and partials, editing view templates and wiring up React components inside them
- Implement UI designs using HTML elements and CSS, working from mockups, Figma files or written requirements
- Fix bugs and make incremental improvements to existing views and components
- Write and maintain unit tests for the JavaScript and webpage components you work on
- Collaborate with designers, product managers and other engineers to turn requirements into working UI
- Participate in code review and collaborative Git workflows
- Be willing to ask for help and pair program as you get going; we're investing in your professional development, not expecting a finished product
Application process
- Initial cultural fit interview:
- With the hiring manager Dominic Sayers, Chief Technology Officer
- Virtual
- 30 mins
- Technical assessment interview:
- With one of our engineering team
- Discuss a bootcamp project you delivered, present a small project you have worked on, or your response to a technical challenge set by us
- In our Hoxton office
- 1 hour
- Decision & offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Tussell fills the gap for useful and reliable information on UK public procurement, a crucial market that accounts for more than 10% of UK GDP. Their clients range from brand-name multinationals through to small companies and an increasing number of public bodies.
By building on the UK government's information transparency with data analytics, they help to make the public sector even more open. They promote competition by empowering small firms with market intelligence that was previously only accessible to big companies.
On the back of the government’s expanding financial intervention in the economy, Tussell saw record revenue growth in recent years. Due to strong demand from companies wanting to tap into the public sector, and influenced by the post Covid and Brexit space, public contracts and investment will be even more important to promoting an equitable national economic recovery.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2018
$1.4m
SEED
Total funding: $1.4m
Company benefits
- Generous Annual Leave: Annual leave of 25 days (not including public holidays), rising by one day per year up to a cap of 30 days.
- Vibrant office in Hoxton: A London office with great perks.
- Learning and Development Budget: A personal allocated budget to invest in career-building training.
- Wellness Budget: Wellness means something unique to everyone, so we offer a flexible wellbeing budget.
- Team Socials: Monthly and quarterly team socials plus company wide summer and Christmas part to celebrate as a team.
- Tenure Rewards: A cash voucher on your Tussell anniversary each year.
- Pension Scheme: We offer a pension scheme to our employees because it's a terrific way to plan for your long-term future.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: Promoting healthier commuting options while offering tax savings on bikes and cycling equipment.
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Gus Tugendhat
(Founder)Previously CEO of fintech start-up Red Deer Systems, a Managing Director at Thomson Reuters and an investment banker at Lazard.
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