Description
ProdPad is a Brighton based tech start-up. We are currently looking for a middleweight Front-end Developer to join our team to help develop new and interesting features and improvements to our SaaS product; that are robust, powerful and innovative.
About ProdPad
ProdPad is cloud-based product management software used by 1000+ companies, including companies like Adobe, DWP, Autodesk, Mozilla, Amazon, KLM and NHS Education.
It’s a "software as a service" (SaaS) web tool designed to help teams build better products. By providing a single interface that collects all of the input from an organisation's broad base of users (both external prospects & customers, and internal groups - like sales, customer care and development), ProdPad provides product managers a beautiful interface to organise their product backlog, build their roadmap, and send their requirements to development via any of our incredibly useful integrations.
As a company we’re constantly striving for the best product management practices ourselves, so you can expect to be a part of a truly agile workplace (continuous iterative improvement, not arbitrary deadlines!), building, learning and iterating on our product to make it better for our users with continuous research and weekly deployments in place so you’ll be regularly contributing to improvements to the product.
We invest in training, conferences, and whatever else you might need to get new skills and improve your own work. We also encourage personal development and allow time for R&D regularly.
About the Job
We are currently looking for a middleweight Front-end Developer to join our team to help develop new and interesting features and improvements to our SaaS product.
In addition to working with exciting technologies to build our powerful web-app, we’d love to add a new colleague to the team with some mentoring and/or leadership experience, or who is ready to step into a role that involves mentoring other team members. As a growing organisation, we will be bolstering our development team over the coming months and we will need a solid and safe pair of hands to help our team with both technical guidance, and in areas such as onboarding.
This role will be reporting to our CTIO.
This role will give you the opportunity to
- Work with our development and UX 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 the best 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 have other developers jump in on as the engineering team grows.
- Be an integral part of the team, enjoying direct input into suggesting and discussing future product developments.
- Own the CSS/SCSS codebase - create and maintain an CSS/SCSS style guide, and review all relevant PRs.
- Own the architecture of all new UI components and work closely with our design team on our design system.
- Own the UI documentation including writing and maintaining it, making it friendly, helpful, and accessible.
- Contribute as much as possible to the creation of the design system.
- Work with the design / UX team to create functioning prototypes for new features. Have more of an active input whilst iterating on / developing these prototypes.
- Get involved in concepting ideas and prototyping (working alongside the Product Design team).
- Perform regular code reviews amongst the team.
Tech stack you’ll be working with
Vue, Node, Modern CSS and Websockets
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 deep 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.
- You are keen to develop your mentoring and leadership skills
Desirable Skills and Experience: (Approx. 2+ years is desirable)
- Experience in VueJS (or some of the other JS frameworks - Svelte, React, etc).
- Experience writing Modern CSS - Grid, Flexbox, Custom Properties, and friends!
- Experience writing semantic, accessible HTML.
- Experience with Node and JavaScript implemented WebSockets.
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD).
- Experience with JavaScript based package managers and task runners.
If you tick some of these boxes, but not all; or have less than the 2ish years desired experience but feel ready for some fast tracking - that’s okay! If you’re keen to learn, we’re here to teach. Let us know in your covering letter why this is the job for you!
Salary
Band of £40k - £50k per annum. Dependent on experience.
Benefits
🖥️ Pick out your own kit and tools to work with
🏥 Private Medical Insurance and Healthcare Cashback Scheme
💸 Pension Contribution
🌴 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) and an extra 3 days holiday after 3 years
☀️ 4 day working week in the summer (for 3 months) at full pay
👶 Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave with pay
❤️ EAP Scheme
🚆 Season Ticket Loan
🤖 10% R&D time in sprints to work on personal development
⚖️ 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 product and development team can usually be found with a mix of in office and remote work encouraged across the team, at hours which suit both your individual needs and the needs of the organisation.
This is a full-time position and we would consider either hybrid working or a fully remote candidate based in the UK.
We value our diverse workforce, and strive to nurture and develop our inclusive work environment.
What the hiring process looks like:
- 15 min "Hello" with our CTIO + another member of the leadership team. (Zoom)
- Pair Programming challenge 1 hour live programming with member/s of our Development team (Zoom)
- Technical Interview Deep dive into your CV, experience and career goals, plus discussion about your pair programming session. With our CTIO and a Development team member (Zoom or in person)
ProdPad is a Brighton based tech start-up. We are currently looking for a middleweight Front-end Developer to join our team to help develop new and interesting features and improvements to our SaaS product; that are robust, powerful and innovative.