Senior Software Engineer, Dayshape

• A confident JavaScript developer, happy writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (Vue.js in particular)
• Experienced in working in agile teams as part of a product development environment
• Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests
• Able to zero-in on bugs without looking at the code, based on your experience and intuition
• Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of
• Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level
• Well-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmatically
• Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn others
• An excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need help
• Experienced in collaborating with others - you will be working closely with engineering, product and QA colleagues
• Adaptable, and motivated to try/learn new things
• Great at breaking down large tasks into manageable chunks
• Able to see the Big Picture - how your decisions affect your colleagues and your users
• Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand
• If your experience isn't an exact match for this job description, but you have transferrable skills/experience that you think would be a great fit, please outline this in your application

Desirable

• As part of our Engineering team, your key areas of focus will be enhancing product scalability and usability, helping consistently deliver features that support our customers' success
• As a senior engineer, you will work collaboratively with the rest of our cross-functional team to plan and deliver new features and enhancements
• You will take ownership of features and technical initiatives and make sure they are successful, while keeping an eye on UX, accessibility and aesthetics
• Support our product and engineering managers in prioritisation, scoping and leading delivery of product features
• Write complex, performant frontend business logic in JavaScript
• Write and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js
• Write automated tests to assure quality (unit and end-to-end testing)
• Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team
• Work with the rest of our engineering team to enhance quality, scalability, performance and maintainability
• Support our culture of learning, development and teamwork
• Be involved in the entire life-cycle of features, including idea creation, deployment, and longer term updates and enhancements