Senior Frontend Engineer

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energy domain knowledge React (required) TypeScript (required) Next.js on Vercel (desirable) GraphQL w/ Tanstack

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OtherSenior Frontend Engineer

Acting as the flexibility team’s first frontend engineer, establish the team’s frontend capability, lead the team’s frontend technical direction and represent the team to the cross-team community of frontend engineers

Build and own a diverse range of customer-facing user journeys, enabling customers to onboard, control, and analyse their low carbon tech

Build and own internal-facing interfaces for stakeholder-collaborators and experimental prototypes

Interface with established mobile teams by providing WebViews for emerging mobile customer journeys

Collaborate with our internal design team to integrate our designs into the wider Octopus design system ‘Coral’

Carry out product discovery by working closely with our Product Manager and stakeholders from across the organisation

Build highly reusable interfaces that enable rapid response to new opportunities

5+ years of experience with our stack (listed below)

Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions

Confidence owning the development cycle (request, requirements gathering, technical proposal, technical execution, deployment and monitoring.)

Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually

An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others

The ability to develop websites that meet strong accessibility guidelines

Experience building scalable, performant sites that handle high levels of traffic well

Desirable: energy domain knowledge

React (required)

TypeScript (required)

Next.js on Vercel (desirable)

GraphQL w/ Tanstack Query (desirable)

React Testing Library & vitest and/or msw (desirable)

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!

• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We were recently named the UK's top company to work for, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership

• Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits

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P.S. Our process usually takes up to 4 weeks, but we’ll always do our best to flex around what works for you. Along the way, you’ll chat with our recruitment team and your Recruiter will help you throughout different stages. Got any burning questions before then? Drop us a message at talent@octoenergy.com and we’d love to help!

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