Senior Frontend Web Developer

About Us

Sozie is a London, UK headquartered Company that is rapidly growing with market defining clients in Europe and the US, including Adidas, Target and Tommy Hilfiger.

We are building the leading global platform used by retailers to connect in-store employees to e-commerce for personalised online shopping experiences.

Our leadership and sales teams are based in London, UK and Toronto, Canada. Our tech and ops teams are based in Lahore, Pakistan. 

The Opportunity for You

As our Lead Web Developer, you will be a part of our highly-skilled team of developers in Lahore. We are an agile team and work in a collaborative environment where continuous learning opportunities and challenging work is a constant. You will employ agile development practices including test and deployment automation as well as continuous integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality.

In this role, you will be leading the design, implementation, and roll-out of our client facing web application. The Sozie Web App is used by our retail clients for access to the Sozie platform which connects e-commerce to in-store employees. You will work closely with the CTO and senior backend developer and ultimately report directly to the CEO. It will be your responsibility to translate complex ideas, needs, and goals into simple, beautiful user-friendly solutions that we will be proud to put in front of our clients and which will delight them!

What You Will Do

• Own all aspects of our client facing web application

• Define and design the frontend in collaboration in conjunction with the product manager

• Collaborate with our CTO and senior backend developer for the backend logic of the web app

• Define roadmap and sprint planning in conjunction with the the product manager

• Collaborate with management to define, design, and apply new features

• Communicate directly and daily with leadership in product development meetings

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Implement and oversee a QA process for debugging and improving performance

• Grow at a rapid rate with our Company

Requirements

Technical Requirements

• Graduate Degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a top University 

• You are a master of frontend: CSS, HTML, SASS, LESS, JavaScript, React, ES5, JSX

• You have strong design, UI/UX skills

• It would be nice if you have some backend skills: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server

• You are experienced in GIT

• You ideally have an understanding of AWS services / or understand overall solutions architecture and how development activities fit into this

• You have at least 5 years of industry experience as a software engineer.

• You have strong data structures and algorithms concepts

• Build efficient, reusable well-designed and high-quality code

Product Building Requirements

• Strong UX considerations

• You can function effectively and be valuable to the Company without too much hand-holding and micromanagement (ex. you don’t need detailed JIRA tickets written out for you)

• You are capable of discussing your business objectives and proposing a work roadmap and specific tasks for approval

• You are an extremely proactive communicator, who understands the challenges of remote work and the need to over-communicate to offset those challenges

• You are good at feature planning and estimation. You can discuss business priorities and propose sensible software/business tradeoffs that are in line with priorities.

• Test-oriented development mindset

• Ability to work independently

• Be familiar with delivering outcomes under conditions of uncertainty

• Curious, collaborative, humble and are a Doer

Communication Skills

• You are a fluent English communicator, and you will be able to communicate independently and effectively over email and calls with engineering managers at our clients

• Excellent written communication and documentation skills in English

• Excellent verbal communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions

• We value people who communicate directly, simply, honestly and clearly

Application Deadline

We are interviewing candidates on a rolling basis. It is advantageous to apply early.