Lead Front End Engineer

Company Description

Founded in France and now with a global footprint Ippon is a team of true technologists who leverage contemporary thinking and tools to enhance the way our clients drive value. Whether it's a bespoke platform to improve employee engagement within a national retail chain, or developing an app that provides next-level direct customer interaction; value is delivered to our clients when we begin by understanding the business outcomes they desire and then apply our technical expertise to make these outcomes a reality. Our software developers work closely with business analysts, experience designers, product managers and data engineers to solve user problems to help deliver compelling experiences.

Job Description

As we embrace the next phase of growth, we are in search of an experienced Front End Lead Engineer to be part of our journey. Someone who can embrace ambiguity whilst leading through active engagements with clients. You'll work all the way from discovery to delivery and beyond to solve problems that are at the heart of some of our clients most burning issues. You'll find the work challenging, the people stimulating and the environment friendly, welcoming and accepting.

We're a team of committed technologists here to do our best work, we're quick to trust, easy to get along with and curators of elegant solutions.

On a daily basis our lead engineers can expect to:

• Provide technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration for client engagements from ideation through to implementation and maintenance
• Actively engage in the delivery of projects
• Be proactively client-focussed; evangelise and engage effectively
• Create and execute development plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Perform code reviews and mentor other developers
• Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model
• Participate in engaging with the community through meetups and conferences; espouse others to do the same
• Be part of a growing and dynamic team, helping to shape the direction of our company

Qualifications

The skills and experience we need are:

• A bachelors degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Self-motivation and excitement about working in a start-up consulting environment
• A strong history of end to end software delivery with experience across tech specifically: React, NodeJS, .Net. and/ or Java
• Demonstrated delivery of solutions leveraging microservices as well as DevOps, Continuous Integration and build automation approaches
• Excited about creating bespoke, technology-driven digital productsIndustry experience with exposure to AWS cloud services as well as digital product creation experience leveraging Agile and Lean approaches

Additional Information

At Ippon, we see things differently both in terms of how we work with our clients and how we engage with our people. As we are a relatively small team, albeit part of a global consultancy, when it comes to both our clients and our people, we are focused on quality, not quantity. From a client perspective, we work with a select group of enterprises that genuinely value the innovation and value that we deliver. From a people perspective, we pay market leading salaries.

We actively support ongoing development in the form of training, attendance at conferences, etc, and we provide our people with the opportunity to contribute to the development and strategic direction of the business. We also genuinely believe in a flexible workweek. That is why we provide all our people with the option to work a four or five day week. We appreciate that personal/family circumstances change over time so we are happy to change this arrangement as needed. However, in the long term, our goal is to have a four day week as standard!