Principal Frontend Engineer
Fresha
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
About
Fresha is seeking an experienced Principal Frontend Engineer who can lead the frontend guild, provide mentorship and vision for our frontend engineers, and drive the overall quality and productivity across the entire organisation. The ideal candidate will have experience with building SPAs at scale, ideally both consumer-facing and business-facing, ensuring that large numbers of teams can work on the same codebase & product without much friction. The candidate will also have strong communication skills, both upwards and downwards, be able to drive initiatives/have some management skills. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, who likes to work autonomously, enjoys a challenge and wants to make an impact. To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork, all Fresha employees work from the office four days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely one day each week. Our London HQ: WeWork, 10 York Rd, London SE1 7ND Who will love this job:
Passionate -
Someone who’s passionate about quality, always eager to make things better for our customers Data-driven -
Knows what metrics to track, how to make them better, and celebrates incremental wins and achievements that deliver on the overall strategy Autonomy
- Someone who enjoys working in a startup environment, where roles are more flexible and more rewarding. Someone who can wear multiple hats Feedback
- Someone who relishes critical feedback in the pursuit of building world-class products What you will be doing:
Leadership -
Lead the frontend guild, including chairing the weekly guild meetings, helping members drive initiatives, and providing feedback and guidance to these members Prioritisation
- Leading the frontend platform team, including managing priorities, agenda, backlog, etc Ownership -
Owning the overall quality and delivery speed of our various SPAs, including architecture, performance metrics (TTFB, TTI), code structure, tooling&style guides, pipelines, etc Stakeholder Management
- Reporting on the status of our frontend&its various initiatives to our senior leadership, including the CTO and C-suite Mentorship -
Being a mentor to staff engineers&tech leads, helping them plan/architect solutions they’re responsible for and helping them resolve problems they have Travel
- Occasional travel to Poland is needed, usually around 1 week every quarter What context do you need to know:
Fresha is a booking & payment management solution, and a marketplace for salons, barbershops, and various wellness venues We have 2 main SPAs: B2C, and B2B. Both are written in React and use Redux. We are in the process of phasing out Redux in our B2C app in favor of hooks We use Typescript for everything, including API contracts (which are auto-generated) We use our own engine for SSR for our two main SPAs, with a few smaller ones in Remix We have a team in the platform tribe dedicated to maintaining and improving our frontend architecture&tooling, which you’ll be responsible for This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver. To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork, all Fresha employees work from the office four days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely one day each week. What we are looking for:
React
- Strong experience with React including current trends Iteration
- Value simplicity and speed of iteration over complex design and scalability Collaboration
- Experience building websites developed by a large (>3) number of teams Optimisation
- Experience with web app performance, monitoring, and optimisation Scalability
- Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above) APIs
- Experience with NodeJS&building web APIs Frameworks
- Experience with frameworks such as Gatsby, NextJS, Remix Tooling
- Experience with frontend tooling&building pipelines in modern CI platforms. One of: CircleCI, Travis, Gitlab CI, Github Actions Added bonus:
Cross-function
- Experience working in cross-functional team environments (fe, be, data, etc all on the same team) Leadership
- Experience leading swat teams Start-up
- Experience within a start-up or scale-up Frameworks
- Experience with server frameworks such as Express, Koa, NestJS Testing - Experience with end-to-end testing, especially Cypress At Fresha, we value passion and potential as much as specific skills. If you're enthusiastic and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every listed requirement. We believe in fostering growth and providing the support needed for you to excel in your role.
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Languages
- English
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