Senior JavaScript Developer, Monterosa
4+ days a week in office
Real-time engagement platform
Open for applications
Real-time engagement platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
4+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help organisations create interactive experiences for passionate audiences.
Role
Who you are
- You are a seasoned Frontend Developer with expertise in React.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend technologies to join our team
- You have a strong eye for detail and a passion for building high-performance, scalable, and maintainable web applications
- You have experience with testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress, ensuring code quality and stability
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and containerisation with Docker is a plus
- You enjoy collaborating with designers, backend developers, and stakeholders to bring seamless digital experiences to life
- You are passionate about frontend development and staying up to date with the latest technologies,
- Strong understanding of React fundamentals, including JSX, Virtual DOM, and component-based architecture
- Experience with responsive design techniques and tools to ensure optimal user experiences across different devices
- Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3 (Flexbox, Grid), and modern CSS frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS, Styled Components, Material UI)
- Mastery of advanced JavaScript (ES6+) concepts, including async/await, promises, closures, and functional programming
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript for type safety and scalable frontend architecture
- Deep knowledge of React state management solutions like Redux, Redux-Saga, Zustand, or React Query
- Experience integrating and handling RESTful APIs and GraphQL, including authentication, error handling, and security considerations
- Expertise in frontend performance optimisation techniques, including code splitting, lazy loading, memoisation, and caching
- Familiarity with Webpack, ESLint, Prettier, Vite, or ESBuild to enhance development workflows
- Understanding of browser security constraints, accessibility (WCAG standards), and best practices for frontend security (XSS, CSRF, CORS, SQL Injection protection)
- Advanced experience with browser developer tools, Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, and performance monitoring tools to analyse memory usage, CPU performance, and network activity
- Ability to diagnose and resolve frontend performance bottlenecks efficiently
What the job involves
- As a Front-End Engineer at Monterosa, you will be responsible for developing innovative and engaging user interfaces for our digital products, ensuring they align with Monterosa's overall goals
- You will utilise your expertise in front-end technologies, responsive design, and advanced tooling to create high-quality, user-centric experiences
- User Interface Development: Designing and developing intuitive, responsive user interfaces using React and other front-end technologies
- Ensure that the UI meets design specifications, is visually appealing, and provides an optimal user experience across various devices and screen sizes
- Integration with Backend Services: Collaborating with backend engineers to integrate front-end interfaces with backend APIs for data communication, authentication, and error handling
- Ensure seamless interaction between the front-end and back-end components to deliver a cohesive user experience
- Performance Optimisation: Implementing performance optimisation techniques such as code splitting, lazy loading, caching, and network optimisation to improve the speed and efficiency of front-end applications
- Profile and analyse performance bottlenecks to identify areas for improvement and enhance overall responsiveness
- Code Quality and Maintenance: Writing clean, maintainable code according to industry best practices and coding standards
- Regularly refactor and optimise existing codebase to improve readability, scalability, and maintainability
- Conduct code reviews and collaborate with team members to ensure code quality and consistency
- Continuous Learning and Innovation: Stay updated with the latest front-end technologies, trends, and best practices
- Experiment with new tools and techniques to innovate and enhance the front-end development process
- Share knowledge and mentor junior team members to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The proliferation of digital entertainment has made passive entertainment such as television a little less enticing (or possible) for audiences, who have an expectation of interaction and a huge number of devices vying for our attention. Helping to get eyes on (and generate income) for advertisers is Monterosa, a company that uses the possibilities of interactive platforms such as smart televisions and phones to increase engagement with television content.
Monterosa's engagement platform adds real-time purchasing ("shop the merch" buttons and QR codes for instance), voting systems and various kinds of gamification apps to an otherwise passive television experience. This has been appreciated by both audiences and clients, with greatly increased engagement and retained viewership. It reaches 100 million users a year and major companies using the company's platform include ITV, EA Sports and Six Nations Rugby.
Monterosa has raised capital to be put towards further developing its product offerings. Although primarily UK-based, it has recently been increasing its operations overseas, focusing particularly on the US market where it has made strategic partnerships to help grow its presence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$4.8m
EARLY VC
Oct 2015
$1.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $6.4m
Company benefits
- The opportunity to work on exciting projects – creating world-class interactive experiences reaching millions of fans of the biggest entertainment and sports events on the planet
- A small, friendly team where you will have an opportunity to stand out
- Hardware and software of your choice – we never judge your OS or IDE choices
- 4.5 days working week culture – we try and finish early on Fridays
- 25 working days of paid holiday + additional company holidays (we call them Monterosa Mondays)
- Flexible working hours with the opportunity to work from home or office
- Private health insurance, subsidised gym membership and other benefits relevant to your country of residence
- Substantial annual conference and training budget
- Regular social events, hackathons and meetups
Company HQ
Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, UK
Leadership
Tom McDonnell
(CEO)Was previously Commercial Director at Monterosa before stepping up to CEO. Before that, was Post Production & 3D Technical Manager with Aura.
Simon Brickle
(COO)Was previously Technical Manager with the BBC and Development Team Lead at Thomson Reuters.
Igor Loboda
(CTO)Was Senior Software Developer at the BBC and EPAM Systems.
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