Front-end Developer - Hybrid/Remote (UK based)

About ProdPad:

ProdPad is the original (and best) product management software, used by thousands of product teams across the world, helping them to build better products.

ProdPad provides product managers with a home for their product strategy - a single place to map out their product vision and objectives, build and manage their product roadmap, organize their backlog and gather and analyze customer feedback.

Founded in 2012, ProdPad’s Founders invented the world-renowned Now, Next, Later product roadmap, which is used and evangelized by millions of product teams. With customers including Adobe, the UK government, Autodesk, Mozilla, Target, KLM and NHS Education, ProdPad serves teams across the world from their base in the UK and are powering into their next stage of exciting growth.

About the Job:

In this job, you'll contribute to all things JavaScript in our codebase while working closely with other Developers in the team as well as our Product Designers and Support Team. You'll be helping to maintain and develop new and exciting upgrades to our product that are robust, powerful and innovative.

We run 2 week development sprints where you’ll be working on a range of tasks from new features that excite our customers to bug fixes and R&D. We deploy code weekly, and you’ll be getting to deploy to production within your first month.

This role will be reporting to our Head of Engineering.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Work with our development, support and product teams in an agile fashion to deliver iterative improvements that we can get in front of customers
• Be continuously improving our core app as it grows. We perform weekly deployments!
• Research and implement technologies that will allow the product to be fast, responsive, and usable
• Own your code and make sure that it’s clear and well maintained to ensure other developers can jump on in as the engineering team grows
• Be an integral part of the team, enjoying direct input into suggesting and discussing future product developments
• Work with the design team to create functioning prototypes for new features
• Actively collaborate when scoping and concepulising new features
• Perform regular code reviews amongst the team
  

Tech stack you’ll be working with:

• VueJS, Node, Modern CSS and Websockets
  

What the hiring process looks like:

• 15 min hello with our COO and Head of Engineering
• 1 hour Interview with CTIO and Head of Engineering (Note: This would be a CV deep dive)
• Challenge (in your own time) (we pay for your time here, we don’t expect it for free!)
• Final Stage - Chat through the challenge approach with Head of Engineering and a Team Member then a final interview with any additional relevant team members

Requirements

About you:

• You can communicate effectively and are able to translate technical aspects to the wider team
• You’re keen to try new technologies and always looking for how to improve what we currently have
• You have a solid understanding of CSS and its quirks across different browsers
• You have an excellent ability to translate designs accurately from visuals to the web
• You might be a creative individual with a passion for making things look and feel great
  

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Approx. 2+ years in the industry
• Experience in VueJS (or some of the other JS frameworks - Svelte, React, etc)
• Experience writing Modern CSS - Grid, Flexbox, Custom Properties etc
• Experience writing semantic, accessible HTML
• Bonus for any experience with Node and JavaScript implemented WebSockets

Benefits

Salary:

40-50k per annum depending on experience.

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits include:

Stock Options

25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) and an extra 3 days holiday after 3 years

Private Medical Insurance and Healthcare Cashback Scheme

Pension Contribution

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave with pay

❤️ EAP Scheme

️ Pick out your own kit and tools to work with

Season Ticket Loan

Learning and Development Budget

• ️ A great work life balance - We encourage “tidy time”, coffee mornings, walking meetings and any other way you can break from the norm to add some “feel good” into your working day.

The opportunity to develop your own skills and role as we grow - we encourage learning and development in your field and are open to supporting your attendance at conferences, training days and other events.

Flexible Working:

Our HQ is in sunny Brighton, 10 minutes from the station and it’s where our marketing team can usually be found with a mix of in-office and remote work encouraged across the team, at hours that suit both your individual needs and the needs of the organization.

This is a full-time position and we would consider someone remote (based in the UK), hybrid, or based at our Brighton office. The entire ProdPad team is a mix of all of the above.

We value our diverse workforce and strive to nurture and develop our inclusive work environment.