Overview
This exciting role offers a great opportunity for a creative and talented front end developer who is looking to join a small, focused, passionate, and supportive team to help contribute to the evolution of our core B2B ordering platform and play a key role in the transition to a next-generation digital ordering experience. Reporting to the Software Development Manager you will help us improve our front-end applications to help drive productivity and efficiency within our business, and most importantly delight our customers. As a highly motivated developer, with significant experience (at least 5 years), you will focus on creating features for modern cloud applications in Angular running on Azure. Within the digital products team, you will be the front-end expert, vital to sprint velocity, stand up, estimations, and retrospectives. At a wider level, you will be critical to all stages of software development from architecture design, performance evaluation, to build and deployment pipeline creation, and application monitoring.
Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Angular and related technologies (TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, etc).
* Work closely with back-end developers and product owners to translate business requirements into clean and functional user interfaces.
* Optimise applications for performance and scalability while ensuring application security.
* Implement unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the application.
* Push for continuous improvement and technical excellence in our solutions, owning your code out into production.
* Engage with users to understand their challenges and identify opportunities for improvement.
* Be proactive in your development and the development of other engineers; seek out conferences, suggest resources, and continually develop skills where necessary.
* Find opportunities to get involved in teams outside of IT to improve understanding of business and customer challenges.
Qualifications
* Minimum 5 years software development experience in a commercial setting.
* Proven experience developing Angular applications with a strong grasp of modern front-end principles and best practices.
* Solid knowledge of Web UI development (HTML, SASS, CSS, JS, TypeScript, etc.).
* Experience with version control systems, ideally Git.
* You are self-motivated and make pragmatic technical decisions, delivering value to customers in a timely way.
* You have a strong focus on delivering quality code supported by code reviews and robust testing practices.
* Desirable: Experience building applications with React.
* Desirable: Knowledge of feature flagging tooling like LaunchDarkly.
* Desirable: Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product delivery frameworks.
* Desirable: API development using ASP.NET Core (C#).
* Desirable: Exposure to using OAuth2.0 / OpenID Connect in Angular applications.
* Desirable: Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 and security in web applications.
Benefits
* Competitive salary - accredited Living Wage employer
* 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
* Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
* Discretionary annual bonus scheme
* Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
* Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
* Subsidised canteen
* Free parking
* Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
* Apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts
Our Values
apetito is the UK's leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings. We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK's most vulnerable people. We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040. Our ethical standards are recognised by the and we are an accredited Living Wage employer. We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds. We are on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.
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