Principal Software Engineer

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The Overview

Are you an experienced Front-End Software Engineer? Do you have experience of Micro Front-End build? Are you someone who thrives on making the user experience better?

If so, this may be the opportunity for you!

At Flooid we are looking for a Principal Front-End Software Engineer to join our team and support us to deliver the next generation of POS software to our customers.

You and The Role

As a Principal Front-End Software Engineer, you will be working with our Front-End Architect to evolve and implement Micro Front-End (MFE) capability within the platform. Building out the client-side framework for cross cutting capabilities that will allow front-end engineers to easily add functionality and value to a growing suite of applications.

Primary duties include:

• Evolving, maintaining, and contributing to the Micro Front-End client strategy for the Flooid platform.
• Documenting design principles for technical and non-technical audiences, communicating those designs and governing their implementation.
• Generating POC and reference architecture application stacks which is a focal point for engineering implementation of architectural patterns within an MFE ecosystem.
• Work within engineering teams to deliver features for our core product set or for projects which are in line with the Product front-end architectural patterns.
• Assist in the development of the front-end application build, test, and automation frameworks.
• Work with a small architecture team to ensure compatibility between the front-end components and the platform service API’s.
• Coach and pair with front-end engineers to deliver functionality to time and quality.

This role has great flexibility and the opportunity to collaborate with global teams.

A successful Principal Front-End Software Engineer at Flooid will value championing clean code and continuous improvement of both development processes and their own capabilities. You will have a passion for technology and a desire to take ownership and contribute to the evolution of a Product suite.

The Team

You will work with our wider team within the Flooid architecture group (Principal Engineers and Software Architects) who are enthusiastic about being expert in what they do. They have brilliant industry knowledge and experience. The team is responsible for covering what we build and how we build it, making it easy for engineers to add value within our systems and ensuring that this value is passed on to Flooid’s customers in the Products that we create.

Skills and Experiences

A successful Principal Front-End Software Engineer at Flooid will have experience in front end application development using JavaScript, Node, Angular, Cordova, Ionic and TypeScript within the IOS and Android technology stacks.

You will need to bring:

• Experience of MFE build, delivery and intercommunication strategies working with the single-spa framework or an equivalent.
• Knowledge of communication with back-end service API’s using Http, ReST, JSON.
• UI/UX expertise within responsive web applications.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and distributed source control toolsets.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Cypress and Jasmine.
• Effective communication skills and be able to work with technical and non-technical team members to solve problems.

The experience we would like you to have:

• Experience of evolving existing UI application stacks to an MFE model.
• Knowledge of browser compatibility and performance optimisation.
• NoSQL database capability, previous usage of MongoDB is a plus.

You should be able to work confidently on an independent basis and as part of a team, across a wide variety of company initiatives.

You may have experience in: Principal Front-End Software Engineer, Software Development, Software Engineering, Principal engineering, Software Architecture

The Company

Flooid are a software technology company. We offer retailers an omnichannel solution across any sales channel from point of sale, mobile, online, social, and beyond, offering solutions for Cloud and Managed Services, ensuring we provide our retailers with everything they need to make their sale.

Our customers’ needs are at the heart of what we do which has resulted in great success in what we’ve done and an exciting strategy for where we are heading.

Location:Coventry. Hybrid working- work from home with occasional travel to our head office in Coventry and limited travel to customer sites.

Contract Type:Permanent

Hours:Full Time, 37.5 hours per week.

We understand that you have commitments - picking up children, being a carer or a gym class, you just cannot miss. We recognise the importance of helping you balance your working life with other priorities – that is why we have a work from home policy and flexibility with the working hours in the day.

Benefits:Competitive salary. 25 days holiday + bank holidays (and the option to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave). Company sick pay. Enhanced Family Leave policies. Westfield Health Cash Plan - claim money back for wellbeing and alternative therapies and have access to a GP 24/7. Access to a discount platform. Life assurance. Free annual eye test. Cycle to work scheme.

We are not working with agencies for this role.

We are unable to support VISA sponsorships for this role.