Senior Frontend Engineer

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Skimlinks, a Connexity and Taboola company, drives e-commerce success for 50% of the Internet's largest online retailers. We deliver $2B in annual sales by connecting retailers to shoppers on the most desirable retail content channels. As a pioneer in online advertising and campaign technology, Connexity is constantly iterating on products, solving problems for retailers, and building interest in new solutions.

We have recently been acquired by Taboola to make the first Open-Web Source for Publishers connecting editorial content to product recommendations, where readers can easily buy products related to stories they are reading.

The Sr. Frontend Engineer is based in London, reports to the Sr. Director, Engineering, and is a part of the UK Skimlinks Engineering Team. The front end engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining user interface to create visually appealing and functional interfaces that provide a seamless user experience. Their role involves translating design mockups into code, optimizing performance, ensuring cross-browser compatibility, and implementing responsive design to accommodate various devices and screen sizes. Front end engineers also collaborate closely with back end developers, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders to integrate the front end with server-side logic and create cohesive, user-friendly products.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, your role will involve:

• Collaborating with our design and product teams to work on features that our customers love
• Focusing on creating code that is elegant, easy to maintain, and well-tested
• Taking part in the early stages of product planning, highlighting potential blockers on the front end side, and providing high-level estimations and timelines
• Identifying refactoring needs and actively participating in efforts to address them
• Playing an active role in the development of our most mission-critical products and services
• Providing technical mentoring to junior team members
• Collaborating with highly capable engineers who enjoy working together and supporting new team members
• Considering ways to make things simpler, more intuitive, and easier for our customers
• Actively seeking improvement in our frontend systems and tools (tests, documentation, build processes, coding standards, etc.)
• Being transparent with the team (both upwards and downwards) about challenges, failures, and successes

Requirements

Our front-end team is responsible for our customer-facing interfaces (Publisher Hub), Chrome extension (Editor Tool), and high-performance Javascript deployed on some of the largest Publishers in the world.

In our tech stack, we use the latest technologies, such as React, Next.js, Typescript, Tanstack Cypress.io, Jest, Docker, and Kubernetes, all hosted in Google Cloud.

About You:

• High degree of fluency in JavaScript, with knowledge of modern techniques as well as core JS concepts.
• Deep understanding of React and it's ecosystem
• Experience with highly performant vanilla Javascript solutions
• Solid understanding of TypeScript
• Experience integrating with cloud services, and RESTful APIs.
• Modern frontend build tooling (Webpack/Parcel, ESlint, Cypress, Jest, Babel, NPM/Yarn)
• Proficiency in frontend markup and styling
• Interested in writing high quality, robust code involving approaches such as unit testing, code coverage and static code analysis.
• Have a product mindset: At Skimlinks we truly believe that feature ideas can come from anywhere

Benefits

Voted "Best Places to Work," our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, and EU. We offer top benefits including Annual Leave Entitlement, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more!

• Healthcare insurance & cash plans
• Pension
• Parental Leave Policies
• Learning & Development Program (educational tool)
• Flexible work schedules
• Wellness Resources
• Equity

We are committed to providing a culture at Connexity that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality, and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we're all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.

This position is hybrid (1-2 days / week) and based in our London office.

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