Frontend Engineer - G06

Summary:

digiLab is a pioneering AI company that helps enterprises transform complex challenges into innovation with uncertainty quantification, explainable AI and MLOps. Working with organisations in highly regulated or safety-critical industries to solve their complex engineering, infrastructure or data challenges, digiLab specialises in solving problems where data is sparse or uncertain. Having grown from a small team of leading mathematicians and data scientists, digiLab teaches your teams how to solve their grand challenges using a secure AI platform, alongside expert consultancy. digiLab's platform - the Uncertainty Engine is a no-code agentic AI platform that combines data, models and workflows to connect a trustworthy AI digital thread through an organisation.

This is a full-time role (Monday to Thursday), encompassing a broad range of software engineering, frontend development, and team management responsibilities.

What were looking for:

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong experience in React and Typescript, capable of leading the frontend development of our product. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering, a passion for creating user-centric interfaces, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

What you will be doing with us:

As a Frontend Engineer at digiLab, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and maintain high-quality frontend software solutions.

• Contributing to the architectural design, development, testing, and deployment of frontend applications.

• Developing applications with React and Typescript, ensuring a high-quality, scalable, and secure codebase.

• Applying security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment.

• Demonstrating a deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and ensuring efficient deployment processes for frontend code.

• Championing Scrum and making strong contributions to team-process improvements.

• Collaborating with product management to understand and translate business requirements into technical frontend solutions.

• Providing technical support to customers and leading diagnosis and mitigation in incident management investigations.

• Ensuring adherence to RESTful API design principles.

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What Skills we are looking for:

• Degree-level qualification in computer science or related field.

• Sufficient industry experience in software development.

• Expertise in React, and React's functional component paradigm, hooks, and custom hook patterns.

• Strong proficiency with TypeScript.

• Expertise in CSS, and experience with a variety of modern CSS approaches.

• Ability to write logical, self-explanatory, and consistent code..

• Experience with user-account management and secure frontend development.

• Professional experience with RESTful API design and best practices.

• Strong understanding of frontend software design patterns, SOLID, DRY principles, and architectural patterns.

• Experience with Git/GitHub and best practices.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

• Knowledge of the software testing pyramid and automated testing (smoke, component, unit, performance, load, end-to-end).

• Understanding of UI/UX design principles and a keen eye for detail.

• Proven ability to collaborate in a fast-paced agile team, preferably using scrum.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers.

In addition, some nice to haves are:

• A Masters degree in a related field.

• Experience with AWS: IAM, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, API Gateway, ECR, EC2, Cognito.

• Experience with canvas/diagram libraries (like Reactflow, FlowChart.js, etc.).

• Knowledge of deployment-reliability engineering and reliability best practices.

• Experience with security best practices and frontend security concerns.

Location:

This role is based on-site at digiLabs offices on the Quay, Exeter.

Our Culture and Values

At digiLab, we prioritize work-life balance with a 4-day workweek (Monday to Thursday), offering a full-time salary and three-day weekends every week! Our team is built on strong connections, with regular socials like game nights, bouldering, and paddleboarding.

We foster a culture of innovation, trust, and collaboration. Our values include:

• Creativity & Agility: Encouraging innovation and flexibility in goal achievement.

• Trust & Responsibility: Supporting each other in taking calculated risks for bold innovation.

• Open & Honest Collaboration: Ensuring transparent communication and alignment.

• High-Performance Standards: Continuously challenging ourselves to excel in delivery.

• Value-Driven Work: Regularly assessing our contributions toward company goals.

Benefits:

We value enthusiasm and loyalty, and were committed to offering a great work-life balance. Along with the exciting challenges this role provides, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 4-day working week

• Competitive Salary

• BUPA private health care (via salary sacrifice)

Discretionary EMI scheme (eligible after one year with the company)