Senior React Developer
Buyapowa
Who we are
We’re the tech team at Buyapowa, a marketing tech firm based in London. We're fully remote and distributed, with team members across the UK, Europe, and Canada. We’re committed to continuously reviewing and refining our policies, enhancing work-life balance, and optimising asynchronous collaboration.
The core of the tech teams values are:
- Test first as a standard
- Continuous improvement
- We build it we run it
- Right tech for the right problems
- Solving customer problems first
- Sustainable pace
We’re looking for front end developers who want to work on complex experiences powering our platform and enabling our customers to manage content and visualise performance and solve customer issues.
The Role
As a Senior React developer you will join the team responsible for the development of our various front end applications. Built using Vite in Typescript, React 17.02 and up and GraphQL, Tailwind and React testing library. Our products include a complex content editing platform, a clear and concise customer management system, and you will also be iterating on our core consumer facing referral marketing platform.
Our wider tech stack is primarily Ruby / Rails, Postgres, Redis, tied together with both GraphQL and REST endpoints. Standard stuff. We leverage both Heroku and lower level AWS services through Terraform to bring our platform to enterprise clients with high security and scale requirements.
You will be expected to:
- Design solutions from the ground up
- Work with the team to define APIs and use stubbed APIs
- Review code from other members of your team
- Pair with other members of your team
- Troubleshoot
- Take full responsibility for stories from inception to delivery
- Work closely with Product Managers and company wide stakeholders
- Help your teammates improve in their skills and knowledge
You have
- Great experience with test libraries and testing as a standard for all of your work
- > 3 years React and ES6 / Typescript experience
- Experience with Vite, react-testing-library, jest, styled-components, graphql and hooks
- Proficiency with Git source control
- Strong CSS ability, experience with Tailwind is a bonus
- Good communication skills in written, verbal, and code
We’ll give you the opportunity to
- Use a variety of technologies
- Bring new suggestions to the table for evaluation and experimentation
- Deliver business value to end users with cycle times measured in days and weeks, not months and quarters
- Be part of a diverse team to see how diversity leads to high performing teams
- Work at a sustainable pace so you can enjoy your productivity
We’ll help you
- Ensure your work is challenging
- Grow you to the next stage of your career
- Impact the business in a meaningful way
- Develop skills outside of pure tech
- Fund your learning with time and money
- Give you the space to concentrate AND make sure you don’t feel isolated
Benefits working at Buyapowa
- Learning & development. We’ll give you the opportunity to learn, including a personal learning budget for your professional growth.
- Ownership. We’ve got big plans and we want you to share in the upside. That’s why you’ll get to participate in a generous equity incentive plan.
- Wellbeing. We’re looking forward to seeing you grow in your professional life, but we also care about your wellbeing. That’s why you’ll receive an annual wellness budget, to spend just on you - no questions asked.
- Work / life balance. Taking a break is super important to all of us. In fact, it’s something that’s gently encouraged, coaxed and nudged on a regular basis.
- WFH Support. Our ethos is to prioritise the distributed team. While we have hubs and we love getting together, our priority is to invest in getting you set up to work remotely so you can collaborate with ease. So, whatever you need to be amazing, it’s on us.
- Family life. Being part of the Buyapowa family is important to us, but we know you have a life outside of our team, too. Whatever family / home life looks like to you, we offer flexible working.