Senior Frontend Developer

Peacock Engineering Ltd is a Gold-accredited IBM Premier Business Partner which has amassed over 300 person years of experience implementing business critical EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) solutions across a range of industries such as oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, utilities, facilities management, transport, and power generation. 

Peacock Engineering Ltd specialise in providing consultancy services and support for the IBM Maximo EAM software product and maintain a pool of highly experienced and capable consultants fully conversant with IBM Maximo and its functionality, capabilities, and opportunities for customisation to meet business need. 

Peacock Engineering’s Technical Services team is now looking for an experienced UI / Front End Developer who is proficient with React.js (16.8+) to join our international team of developers delivering innovative solutions to our major UK-based customers.

Your primary focus will be working on new user interface components which are modern, secure, performant, and easy to maintain - following well-known React.js workflows and recognised best practices.

You will coordinate with the rest of our multi-disciplined team working together on different layers of the solution architecture.  A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and delivering a high-quality product is essential.

• Developing new user-facing features for our clients using React.js
• Translating functional requirements (User Stories/Tasks) and wireframes into high quality code with tests
• Working with architects, developers, and QA engineers to ensure that your work is testable, meets industry security standards and is written to deliver good performance/scalability.
• Perform application and solution development to meet project requirements.
• Develop and document detailed technical designs to meet business requirements.
• Manage multiple technical environments and support the development and testing processes.
• Identify areas of customization and optimization and provide solutions that meet the business requirements.

Experience working with the IBM Maximo software product within the following capacities:

• Tech. in Computer Science, Engineering or Business-related field and/or equivalent work experience.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Minimum five (5) years of work experience in React application development and should have working experience with React Hooks
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Demonstrable expertise in software development in an Agile setting
• Ability to deliver well-tested code consistently in an Agile, CI/CD environment
• Experience with JavaScript Testing frameworks and principles (Jest preferable)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authentication/authorization mechanisms
• Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools (Azure DevOps preferable)
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack/Parcel, NPM/Yarn, etc.
• Familiarity with Git
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Good spoken & written English

• To bring industry knowledge world class capabilities innovation and cutting-edge technology to our clients in the Resources industry to deliver business value.
• To work with leading Resources client’s major customers and suppliers to develop and execute projects and reliability strategies.
• To harness extensive knowledge combined with an integrated suite of methods people and assets to deliver sustainable long-term solution.
• IBM MobileFirst certification
• JAVA/ SQL Skills

• Professional and committed, with a disciplined approach to work.
• Motivated and driven by finding and providing solutions to problems.
• Polite, tactful, helpful, empathic nature, able to deliver to the needs of customers.
• Has respect for others and their views.
• Technology minded and focused, enthusiastic about technologies.
• Analytical, able to raise from the detail and see the bigger picture.
• Dedicated to continually updating and upgrading own knowledge.
• Carries a mind-set of continuous improvement, constantly looking for better and more efficient ways of doing things.
• Values quality at the centre of all things in work.

Due to considerable amounts of virtual working and interaction with colleagues and customers in different physical locations internationally, it is essential that the successful applicant has the drive and ethic to succeed working in small teams physically but in larger efforts virtually.  Self-drive to communicate constantly using web collaboration and video conferencing is essential.

As an employee, you will be encouraged to continually develop your capability & attain certifications to reflect your growth as an individual.

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript / Typescript language and its nuances,
• including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of Object oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage

•  Lead the design and implementation of our new web-based user interface for our partner management service
  •    Work effectively with product management, UX designers and backend engineers
  •    Commit to deliver high quality, robust, and accessible user interface
  •    Follow software development best practices including writing unit tests and perform code reviews
  •    Build reusable components and libraries and optimize for maximum performance
  •    Provide production deployment support and troubleshooting

What you need to be ready: 

•  Minimum 3+ years of experience in UI Development
•  Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles with minimum 2 years of experience
•  Prior experience in building customer facing web Application
  •    In-depth knowledge of HTML, Typescript/JavaScript, CSS/Sass, and related frameworks and libraries
  •    Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles with minimum 2 years of experience
  •    Experience in Single Page Application architecture
  •    Proficient in writing tests using Jest, Mocha or any similar framework
  •    Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, and problem solving
  •    Excellent troubleshooting skills

Work Nature:

1. Understanding Business Requirements and converting those requirement in to Web Pages using HTML, CSS, JS and Photoshop/Illustrator.

2. Should have minimum 5 Web Page Designed/Shipped/Live

3. Can mentor/lead junior webpage designers regarding best practices

Desired Traits

1. Coachable, Flexible, and Embracing of Suitable Practices and Feedback as a means of
continuous improvement.

2. Ability to take initiative and work independently as well as in a team environment.

3. Able to demonstrate Integrity, Drive, and Natural Curiosity.

4. Experience in a good web agency is a plus.

Learn from the best: Learn from leaders who have built Comm100 from ground up. Work under other engineers who handle different layers of the infrastructure.

Work in a data-driven team: Understand the importance of validating assumptions about user behaviour. Use various types of testing to ensure we're right (or discover where did we go wrong). Utilize data collection, enrichment, analytics, and visualizations to improve our systems.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you'll need to have the following skills:

Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.

Sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative, and inventive.

Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.

Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact.

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns including vanilla JavaScript,
• Rich experience with ReactJS, Redux, React Native, or similar library/tools.
• Obsessed with WPO (Web Performance Optimization) and web/mobile performance analysis.
• Familiar with web security, SEO, accessibility, and internationalization.
• Experience with W3C standards, HTTP protocol and web browsers.
• Experience with common tools such as front-end compilation, construction, testing, etc. (Babel, Rollup, Webpack, Jasmine, etc.)