Senior Front End Engineer, GoHenry
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Pocket money app to make every kid smart with money
Job no longer available
Pocket money app to make every kid smart with money
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make every kid smart with money.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in website development
- Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Front-end architecture patterns
- Practical, in-depth experience with the Gatsby framework
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, Jira, git, CI/CD
- Familiarity with responsive/adaptive principles, usability, accessibility, and cross-browser issues and solutions
- Proficiency in integrating REST APIs
- Excellent communication skills, to effectively liaise, interact, advocate, explain concepts to both technical and non-technical team members
- On-point grasp of the value of front-end best practices, and a passion for implementing them
- Deep understanding of the risks and efforts associated with delivering a fast, compliant, frictionless website to large audiences and crawlers alike
- Good knowledge of SEO, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
Desirable
- Optimizely and A/B testing
- Storyblok content API integration
- DebugBear
- Snyk, Sentry
What the job involves
- Reporting to, and collaborating closely with our Head of Front-end Engineering
- Coordinating with the Marketing, Product and wider Tech teams to refine ideas and help with technical decisions and planning
- Contributing to the architecture of GoHenry’s new Gatsby based website, as well as creating new web pages and features according to specifications and designs
- Syncing with the wider Front-end team to share knowledge, practices and updates
- Leading on and contributing to the development and maintenance of the website’s component library
- Assessing and fixing security issues in the code
- Evaluating and optimising the website’s speed and performance metrics
- Performing code reviews and helping the team set up and maintain up-to-date best practices and coding standards
- Working closely with the QA and Delivery teams to safely deliver a solid and enjoyable product
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Since a group of parents in Hampshire came up with the idea in 2009, GoHenry has come a long way and now has more than 2 million customers across its UK and US territories. GoHenry has been named by KPMG and H2 ventures as one of the world’s Leading 100 Fintech Innovators and the company also ranked the 8th fastest-growing British tech business in the Sunday Times TechTrack 100.
GoHenry has definitely revolutionised something that has characterised parent-child relationships for many years: pocket money. With no control or education, children usually spend their money without being truly aware of its value and do not learn anything about money management. GoHenry provides a useful tool to help young people learn good money habits while giving parents peace of mind and an easy way to manage pocket money.
On this mission to help children gain a better financial understanding, GoHenry has released a gamified, interactive tool named Money Missions. In addition to this game, GoHenry launched a Junior ISA, to enable parents to invest in their child's future in a more simple yet effective way. This clearly has potential as 11,000 parents opted for a Junior ISA in its pre-launch phase, so it's proving to be a sizeable market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2022
$55m
LATE VC
Dec 2020
$40m
LATE VC
Total funding: $123.3m
Company benefits
- Enjoy time off: We offer 25 days paid annual leave, plus Flexible Public Holidays (you can decide what you celebrate and cherish, and when you do it!). Plus, we support flexible and remote working, so that unmovable appointment doesn't need to be covered by annual leave
- Flexible working: Our GoFlex policy means you can choose to work at the office, WFH, or a little of both. No matter where you work, we'll make sure you have everything you need so you can focus on your goals
- Stay balanced: A healthy work-life balance is everything. So don’t be a slave to the grind—just give it your all when you’re working. Oh, and this is part of our official rules: start work late (read: sleep in) on your b-day
- Learn faster with training & development: It’s your career, so you lead the way. We provide training and development opportunities and access to hundreds of webinars. Plus, count on your manager for support and regular feedback
- Get health & wellness perks: A healthy work-life balance is everything. We encourage you to give it your all when you're working and to reset properly when you're not. Perk alert: we offer all employees a free subscription to the Calm app
- Choose your equipment: Mac or PC? We all have different ways we prefer to work. Choose your own equipment, so your working days are as comfortable as possible
- Make friends, too: We have fun together, and enjoy each other’s company! We host get-togethers and provide fun perks, while you spend quality time with the team
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Louise Hill
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Operations Director at The Cotswold Company & Findel Direct (warehousing operations) and at Scotts of Stow Ltd.
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