Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer

Client Location: UK(Remote)

Starting: Asap

Pay Rate: £376-£419 per day(PAYE Inside IR35)

Duration: 12 months

Are you a software engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real impact? Join our Messenger Web Communications team in London and be part of the team that owns the core messaging experience for Messenger on web

As a member of this team, you will work on exciting projects and as a team define the future of Messenger on the web.

Top 3 non-negotiable skills:

● UI development experience

● JavaScript and react

● HTML, CSS

Software Engineer, Front End Responsibilities

• Work closely with our PM and design teams to define feature specifications and build the next generation of compelling consumer-facing features leveraging frameworks such as React
• Complete large features end-to-end (each with many tasks) and responsible of areas in the system independently without guidance
• Proactively identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, product area and/or systems
• Work closely with Health & Foundations and infrastructure to build a sustainable and performant app
• Take responsibility for the engineering craft of your projects
• Help make the people around you more efficient by identifying issues slowing the team down and driving changes to address them
• Proactively find problems or make suggestions and drive to resolution, often without guidance.
• Seek out ways to improve the components or systems you work on to facilitate easier development of new features.
• Build front-end frameworks that will allow other product teams to build faster and with higher quality
• Implement the features and user interfaces of enterprise products that are used by the entire company
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience designing and completing medium to large features independently without guidance
• 3+ years of experience identifying and driving changes to applications as needed
• 3+ years of programming experience including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Experience in web technologies: HTML and CSS
• Experience in writing reusable and high-performance user interface components
• Object Oriented JavaScript Frameworks experience
• Experience in architectural design for complex front-end systems
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
• Experience in performance debugging and benchmarking
• Experience building web applications
• Shipped at least one large-scale product to production, supporting millions of active users
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with React

Client Description:

Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.

Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.