By joining the Front-end team at Spotted Zebra, you’ll work not just on functionalities, but also engage with Product team and have a chance to contribute with your ideas! Fully remote work, international team of seasoned professionals and amazing product used by FTSE 100 clients in UK.

Position details

Spotted Zebra is looking for someone to join their engineering team as a Senior Front-end Engineer. Your biggest challenge will be to take both an individual contributor and leadership role in the continued design and build of their core Skills Cloud, as well as the workforce and HR applications that sit on top of it. Their focus is on implementing an architecture that breaks down dependencies to allow for multiple innovative and decoupled engineering teams to deliver applications at high velocity.

Your role will include working with your globally distributed engineering, product, design, and management colleagues. You’ll have the opportunity to mentor junior members of the team but also the option to focus as an individual highly skilled contributor. Either way, you’ll bring the best out in others, support them, challenge them and laugh with them and as a result, you’ll make some lifelong friends and colleagues.

Project details

The Skills Cloud allows senior executives to assess the skills of their entire workforce, identify critical skills gaps, and take corrective action to address these gaps in hiring, development, and internal mobility efforts. Today, skills are taking center stage.

Apart from that, Spotted Zebra has been shortlisted for two prestigious IHR - In-house Recruitment awards – for “Assessment Solution of the Year” and “Technical Hiring”. The award nominations recognize the highly innovative, skills-based solution that was implemented for their Apprenticeship hiring in 2021-22.

Team

The engineering team will be growing by 4x over the next 12 months so they are looking for senior engineers that can come in now and quickly develop into a team leadership role to support that growth and have ownership over one or more microservices. The role will have a high degree of direct coding and will also involve you in software architecture discussions.

Existing team:

1x Head of Data Science
1x Head of Engineering
1x Senior Back-end Engineer
2x Senior Front-end Engineers
2x Junior Full-stack Engineers

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with your senior colleagues in Engineering, Data Science, QC, and DevOps to help create the team structures, processes, and policies to support our goals
Be highly engaged with the Product Team, both contributing your ideas and helping develop your colleagues’ ideas
Assist with prototyping, identify key technical risks and assist the team in validating (or invalidating) ideas quickly and accurately
Own the outcome and focus on solving the problem and exceeding expectations rather than simply delivering features
Ensure you and the team are geared to deliver continuously with high velocity
Knock down barriers within the team, including minimizing technical debt and internal dependencies
Have ownership over one or more microservices. You’ll get to focus on delivering reliable, clean, and efficient code by automating testing

Requirements

Spent the majority of your career as a front-end engineer. You have excellent experience with React and Typescript and ideally GraphQL (Apollo Client)
Exposure to SaaS is a business that has scaled across several products or modules, ideally with a common platform to deliver ‘consumer grade’ products
Experience and understanding of how to share components across multiple apps within one company
Ideally, you have worked with a microservice infrastructure in a high-availability environment
Worked in and helped scale engineering teams in excess of 10 individuals
Been part of a team that has implemented CI/CD

About this company

Spotted who? Spotted Zebra! They help enterprises solve the huge problem of aligning their workforce to the skills that are required to face tomorrow’s challenges. Spotted Zebra is now providing their clients with data at the granular level of an employee that they have never seen before.

With Spotted Zebra, clients can put skills at the center of every decision made about people, transforming their workforces into ones that are ready for tomorrow. With several FTSE100 customers, they just closed a funding round led by a top European VC fund. Now, they're building the right team to lead the multi-billion dollar strategic workforce planning technology market.

Working conditions

B2B/Work contract
Remote working model
Flexible start hours (7 - 9 AM UK time)
20 vacation days

Benefits

Working directly with the founders and Head of Engineering, this is a great opportunity for personal development in a fast-paced and supportive environment.
Ownership: You’ll own a piece of Spotted Zebra through our option scheme. With VC funding we are aiming high and want you to share in that success.

Selection process

FatCat Select HR & Tech Screening
Client-side Intro call
Client-side Short questionnaire
Client-side Interview
Client-side Take-home Task
Client-side Task Revision & Interview

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