Frontend Engineer

The role

What we’re looking for:

Are you passionate about tech and hungry for an opportunity to develop yourself within an award-winning organisation?

Do you want to work with an innovative and fully agile team?

If so, we may have just the opportunity you are looking for!

We are recruiting multiple Frontend Engineers to expand our capacity for facilitating changes to our existing web applications, with a view to completely overhauling our web estate in the near future using the latest technologies.

You need to have a curious and ambitious attitude, with a strong desire to expand and hone your craft.

You’ll need knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS and version control using Git. Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue or React would be highly desirable. In addition, there are some in-house custom technologies that you will be working with, so we want tool-agnostic engineers with an interest in broadening their skillset.

Who you’ll be working with:

These vacancies are for roles within the Direct Line for Business tribe. You will be joining the Small and Medium Enterprise Development squad, which provides insurance offerings for small- and medium-sized businesses through web and phone. Our squads are cross-functional, meaning you will be joining a group of experts that each represent their own craft, such as development, testing and business analytics. In addition, you will be joining the wider community of over 30 UI engineers that exist within the Engineering chapter, spanning across all of the squads in the business.

What you’ll be doing:

Build features for our web applications using the edgeConnect suite.

Work towards building a new web application using Angular or some other JavaScript framework.

Work with QA engineers to create robust unit tests and assist with the maintenance of testing scripts.

Become an expert in building responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, SCSS and JavaScript/TypeScript, working from Sketch files delivered by our in-house design team. 

Work with code repositories, using version control such as Git. 

Perform cross-browser testing and build resilient pages using progressive enhancement. 

Adhere to industry and in-house accessibility standards. 

Understand the importance of frontend methodologies, such as BEM for CSS. 

Champion the Agile framework

What we’ll give you:

Come join us and you’ll find yourself in the middle of one of the most on-the-go teams in the business, with autonomy and exposure to industry leaders on huge household brand names. We’re always encouraging internal development and you’ll have access to loads of learning opportunities, events and conferences to build your industry knowledge.