User Experience Engineer/ Front-end Engineer, UX Focus Level: Mid-Senior/Senior; Remuneration dependent upon experience Please Note: All applications should include a covering letter; references should also be available on request. Who We Are Ochre is a music retail technology company, helping labels, artists, distributors, and brands to run their ecommerce operations. Growing from our roots in music D2C (direct-to-consumer) retail, we are becoming a leader in providing tailored and scalable ecommerce solutions for the music industry. We work with some of the worlds best labels and artists - including Warp, Oasis, Dirty Hit, Ninja Tune, Partisan Records, Anjuna and many, many more. We are a creative company dedicated to helping our clients succeed in music ecommerce through best-in-class tools and services. As we expand and develop, we want to find new team members who are not only skilled in their field - but also passionate about music, technology, art, and culture. Our offices are shared with our sister companies, Warp Records and Bleep, making it a creative, engaging, and dynamic environment. We pride ourselves on having a highly collaborative and energetic working environment. Being part of a cross-disciplinary team, you will be working closely with people across the business to define and realise our next generation of products. The Role We are looking for a UX Engineer or a Front-end Engineer with React & UX focus to be a bridge between our Product and Technology teams. The role is ideal for a senior developer, or a mid-senior looking to step up. As a member of the Product team, you will be a central part of developing and expanding our platform. Collaborating directly with teammates from across the business, you will jointly devise new capabilities and features with a focus on UX. You will also be responsible for managing and refining our approach to Front-end Development, and will be part of a working group responsible for defining our approach to User Experience. You will also have a responsibility to help improve our working processes and strengthen relationships with other teams. We use an Agile framework to implement new features quickly and validate our efforts based on user feedback. We are a scale-up in a period of marked growth, and every member of our team plays an important part in our success as a company. As the business grows, there will be plenty of opportunities to grow technical domain knowledge as well as adjacent skills. You will also be excited by the challenge of scaling up gracefully, balancing best practice with the near- and mid-term needs of the business. Summary Mid-senior to Senior FE lead with significant experience in modern React development Strong understanding of general UX and UI principles, preferably in an ecommerce / retail environment (B2B or B2C) Substantial experience across the feature development lifecycle, contributing to UX, solutioning, and build Demonstrated experience defining and implementing process improvements and best practices for both UX and FE Self-directed and collaborative working style - interested and able to collaborate with business leads to define clear features from broad requirements Experience working with mockups within Figma, and a grasp of basic design principles Role Responsibilities Responsible for refining and implementing approach to FE development across the platform, and collaboratively refining approach to UX within the feature lifecycle Own and mature Ochres Front-end architecture in collaboration with the Head of Technology Work with Product and Technology team members to co-devise new capabilities and incrementally improve existing feature set Lead FE development based on React and HTML, working closely with back-end developers to coordinate build of supporting infrastructure Collaborate with Product Designer, inputting into designs and translating into responsive, accessible, and performant Front-end code Contribute to and help maintain our design system and component libraries Competencies Strong and recent experience in modern FE development using React / NextJS with App Routing, preferably in a retail / e-commerce environment Ideally, some experience / understanding of developing FE design systems and component libraries Experience with replatforming legacy front end Conversant with modern User Experience principles and can deploy them in a real world means, tailored to the specific needs of the business Experience integrating with RESTful APIs Experience working with design tools (e.g. Figma) and collaborating with designers Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills and experience within a cross-disciplinary team Ability to translate technical concepts in plain language when collaborating with non-tech team members Energised by the challenges of a scale-up environment; experience in a scale-up (or similar environment within a larger business) a big plus Nice-to-haves Experience with Front-end development / replatforming of legacy Front-ends using Grails framework or similar MVC frameworks (Grails, Ruby on Rails, SpringBoot) Work with existing GSP (Grails templating format) views or similar Technologies NextJS with app routing (v13 onwards) React 18 TailwindCSS Playwright Mock service workers Turborepo Pnpm Github Actions