Front-End Engineer

Front-End Engineer
£55,835 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester City Centre (Remote)

Please Note: This is a UK remote-first role. Those living close the Manchester will also have the option to work in the office if desired. You may be asked to occasionally attend meetings in Manchester.

We’re looking for a front-end engineer to join us at Co-op as we grow our engineering team in 2023. You’ll work alongside a community of quality coaches, front-end, software, and platform engineers to build the products, services, and platforms that play a big role in our communities.

As a front-end engineer, you’ll sit within our ‘One Web’ team and actively design and build web-based platforms, with a focus on great user experience. If you have the front-end experience that we’re looking for, and a passion to create solutions that meet our user needs, we can offer you the chance to build your career with a business that puts people at the heart of its strategy.

What you’ll do

• contribute to the development of the Co-op front-end framework and design system
• drive continuous improvement in the performance, accessibility and UX of our live services
• use modern engineering practices like TDD, pair or mob programming and continuous deployment
• collaborate with the wider design teams (e.g., interaction, visual, content, service design and user research) to create the best possible experience for our users
• use your knowledge and expertise to provide guidance to your team

This role would suit people who have

• significant experience creating performant and accessible front-end applications
• a strong understanding of web accessibility standards such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the ability to identify potential issues when using a screen reader and keyboard
• experience writing modern HTML, CSS (including pre-processors such as PostCSS or Sass), and ES6+ JavaScript/Typescript
• experience using reactive and component-driven JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or an equivalent
• a strong understanding of version control tools and branching models
• excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to translate often complex and intricate information across multi-disciplinary teams
• a strong attention to detail and some basic experience of design tools (e.g. Figma/Sketch/Illustrator)

Why Co-op?

Here you’ll do work that matters. We can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services), the Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, and the YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands. You’ll also get:

• an annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• a pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• coaching and training to support your career development

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

Please be aware that we may close applications for this role early