Senior Front End React Engineer

Job title: Senior Front End React Engineer

Location: Noida/Gurugram/Bangalore/Mumbai

Type of position: Permanent

The opportunity:

Senior Front End React Engineer needed to join our engineering team.

What you'll be doing:

Creating prototypes and high-quality production-ready React/NextJS front-end single page applications

Driving forward the quality in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, code reviews

Delivering on an Agile workstream of front-end developers on a project, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning and estimates

Conversing confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues

Building modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use

Representing front-end in a client-facing capacity

Cooperating with design and marketing teams to gather and refine specifications and requirements for development

Being involved in existing and new integrations for the platform

Having full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance, expansion and scaling

Staying current with evolving standards and technologies, learning new skills as needed

What we want from you:

Commercial experience of hands on React development, with a solid understanding of the core concepts

Commercial experience of serverless development and server-side development with NextJS

Solid understanding of state management technologies/approaches i.e. Redux, Flux

Commercial Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)

Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS) and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry defined coding standards

Commercial experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)

Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation, refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos

Experience in component development with Storybook

Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security and usability

Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration

Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders

Proficient understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility issues

Commercial experience working on SPA solutions, ideally within e-commerce

Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Grunt and webpack

Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.

Have experience of integrating with a variety of external, 3rd party systems

If you know some of this, even better:

Additional Commercial eCommerce platform experience Magento/Hybris /Shopify

Experience of working with other CMS platforms such as AEM, Sitecore or SFCC

Any knowledge of Nodejs, Express, SQL, Lambda, AWS

Experience of working on Java/Node/C#/PHP projects would be beneficial

Experience of mentoring junior members of the team

About VML

VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands and drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Nestl, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave Reports, which name WPP as a Leader in Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. As the world's most advanced and largest creative company, VML's global network is powered by 30,000 talented people across 60-plus markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, So Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.