This is a permanent opportunity suitable for candidates based within a commutable distance of Central London, UK. This role requires 2 to 3 days per week onsite in London.
Nearform, a global tech consultancy that specializes in building & designing digital products for enterprises, is actively hiring for a Senior Developer. You’ll develop a platform for a top Fintech project while collaborating with talented engineers, providing expert guidance, and shaping the future of financial technology with client teams. When you're not working on client-client projects, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to our renowned open-source software, sharing your expertise with the wider tech community.
The Role
As a Senior Developer at NearForm, you will play an important role in the development process. Our ideal candidate will be a proactive communicator who wants to contribute to the process in a meaningful way. We expect you to follow modern code standards and strive for performant, accessible, and easy-to-read code. As well as be a strong team player and communicator. A person who will succeed in this role will go above and beyond the stated requirements to make sure that what is being delivered is something they can be proud of.
The Ideal candidate will have the following skills and background:
- Be available to work from the office in London 2 to 3 days per week
- Advanced experience with React patterns, scaling, state management, performance, and rendering the impact of various patterns and state management strategies.
- Experience with backend development and Node.js
- Demonstrates empathy and a client-focused mindset by continuously seeking ways to improve team processes, streamline workflows, and deliver high-quality solutions that meet client needs.
- Encourages open communication and collaboration within the team, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Documents technical decisions and ensures they align with client goals and objectives, providing transparent and clear guidance throughout the development process.
- Understands behavioral differences between server and client rendering and how hydration works.
- Able to help drive a dynamic and composable web app’s design system and content using a headless CMS.
- Familiarity with front-end best practices regarding accessibility, performance, and responsiveness; you’ve worked with frameworks like Tailwind and have experience building within Storybook.
- Understands and can configure build tools, understands what transpilation is and how it affects end-user code, and knows how to optimize code delivered to end users.
- Able to challenge architectural patterns and offer solutions to improve the codebase while moving the team forward. Knows how to design and distribute effective shared libraries and tools.
- Comfortable analyzing page performance, using tools like Lighthouse to gather page data, and responding to those insights with improvements to the application.
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of testing principles and practices, including striking an appropriate balance between unit and integration tests in an application.
- Proficient in utilizing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to enable automated testing and deployment of code changes.
Desirable skills
- Experience with Typescript
- Experience Recoil
- Experience with Office Open XML
- Experience with React Flow
Benefits
- Work remotely: we have a genuine dedication to work/life balance.
- Work flexibility; we appreciate there are more important things in life than work so our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem!
- Home Office Support: Receive a home office stipend to help you create a comfortable and productive workspace.
- Investment in Growth: Access a generous professional development budget to support ongoing learning and career growth.
- Positive Company Culture: Join a positive and collaborative company culture that places value on work-life balance.
- The Wellness Hub: We have a genuine commitment to fostering/improving Nearformers’ wellbeing; we offer resources and support, including a Nearform advice line which offers confidential support for anything from relationship issues to staying healthy.
About Us
At Nearform, we value collaboration and a curious mindset that fuels our dynamic team. With a decade of experience, we've achieved meaningful results for our clients while maintaining the agile and transparent ethos of a startup.Our focus on digital transformation means creating practical, user-centric products that help enterprises enter markets quickly, enhance customer experiences, and reshape workflows. Bolstered by recent investment, Nearform is gearing up to extend its impact to more enterprises.Despite our global presence, Nearformers form a close-knit community built on trust and camaraderie.
Join us at Nearform and be part of a journey marked by innovation and progress.
NearForm is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence.
