- Enjoy a standard workday of 7.45 hours and a weekly total of 38.75 hours, allowing for a healthy work-life balance.
- Benefit from additional holidays, including a minimum of 35 days of annual leave per year, which includes public holidays. Our holiday calendar is meticulously crafted based on the public holiday lists for Poland, Belgium, and adheres to the British Council policy.
- Stay active and healthy with our Corporate Sports Card - MultiSport Light 10, which is partially funded by our Social Fund (ZFŚS).
- Avail significant discounts on our English courses and exams for both you and your immediate family members.
- Take advantage of various financial grants and holiday refunds through our Social Fund (ZFŚS), which offers both random and social assistance.
- Access our Employee Assistance Programme, providing confidential psychological support services to ensure your overall wellbeing.
- Explore diverse avenues for professional development and career advancement within our organizational structure.
- Creating digital products that attract and retain customers, delivering business value through digital design and delivery expertise.
- Developing and optimising digital platforms that provide seamless customer interactions and use scalable and secure capabilities.
- Enhancing digital capability across the organisation.
- Enabling growth, impact, and efficiency through technology.
- Lead and nurture the Front End engineering team, guiding and mentoring engineers to achieve their professional growth and their team's project objectives. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, promoting knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Devise, promote and oversee robust and high-quality coding.
- Contribute to the development and management of budgets for engineering projects, ensuring efficient allocation of resources. Proactively identify opportunities for cost optimisation and efficiency improvements in systems while balancing business needs and quality standards.
- Understand and collaborate to determine whole system design, sharing your insight with the team and stakeholders. Provide technical advice to stakeholders and agree team-based standards for programming tools and techniques.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, User Experience, and other stakeholders to define and prioritise Front End engineering requirements for product development.
- Code, review, test and document programs or scripts of high complexity
- Engage with key stakeholders and business partners to understand their Front End engineering needs and provide technical solutions that meet their requirements.
- Collaborate with customer success managers to gather feedback from customers and incorporate it into the continuous improvement of Front End solutions.
- Build strong relationships and maintain effective communication channels with stakeholders, guiding alignment and satisfaction with Front End engineering initiatives.
- Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in Front End systems and implement appropriate security measures to mitigate them.
- Promote and assure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and data privacy requirements in the design and implementation of Front End solutions.
- Oversee and assure the implementation and maintenance of robust monitoring and logging mechanisms to detect and respond to potential performance or compliance issues.
- Develop and maintain analytics and reporting capabilities for Backend systems, providing insights on performance, usage patterns, and user behaviour.
- Generate regular reports and presentations to communicate Backend engineering performance and progress.
- Demonstrable experience in Front End engineering at senior level, with a focus on designing and implementing scalable and high-performance systems.
- Excellent knowledge of front-end web technologies and experience of creating Single Page Applications.
- Exceptional JavaScript/TypeScript experience: ES6, ES2017, React (preferred) / Angular / Vue / Svelte
- CSS: exposure to SASS/LESS, frameworks: Bootstrap, SemanticUI, MaterialUI and Responsive design - CSS Grid/Flexbox
- Deep understanding and experience of UI/UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers.
- Expertise in responsive design principles and mobile-first development.
- Deep understanding of browser compatibility issues and performance optimisation techniques.
- Sound knowledge of accessibility standards, SEO best practices, and security principles.
- Experience with web app performance, monitoring, and optimisation.
- Experience with build tools and package managers (Webpack, Gulp, npm).
- Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Expertise in end-to-end unit and integration testing (e.g. Cypress, Jest and Playwright)
- Experience leading a team
- Strong prototyping skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Skilled in agile development (Scrum/Kanban), software patterns, test and behaviour driven development and version control
- Written and verbal proficiency (CEF 1) in English is required.
- Continuous learning through online courses, workshops, and industry conferences to stay updated with emerging technologies and best practices in Front End development.
Lead Front End Engineer - Ottawa, Canada - British Council
Description
We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.
Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.
Location: Warsaw
Department: Engineering
Contract type: Indefinite (permanent)
Closing Date: 28th April 2024 at 23:59
Some of our benefits are:
You must have the legal right to work in Poland at the time of application. There is no relocation or sponsorship support.
British Council supports working in new ways such as hybrid working, subject to full approval by line management and conditional upon our ability to provide the appropriate level of service. This may not be appropriate for all roles but can be explored at interview.
Role purpose
As Lead Front End Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of cutting-edge digital experiences that delight users. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define technical strategies, architect robust and scalable solutions, and drive innovation in Front End development practices to meet the needs of a range of British Council products and services accessed globally. You will play a critical role in shaping the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of digital products, ensuring seamless functionality, usability, and performance across diverse platforms and devices.
You will provide guidance and support in the technical design, implementation, and optimisation of our Front-End solutions, and with your deep understanding of software engineering principles and best practice, you will play a pivotal role in assuring the stability and security of these systems.
Role Context
The role will be part of the Digital and Technology Directorate, which leads the British Council's digital strategy and transformation. It creates and executes technology initiatives to fulfil the organisation's mission and corporate priorities. Digital and Technology is organised into four divisions: Product, Engineering, Operations and Performance
Key focus areas are:
Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
Requirements of the role:
A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.
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