Senior Frontend Engineer

Front-End Development Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

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Summary

Decisive, operations-focused fullstack lead with management experience who leads from the front and drives results. Skilled at creating and delivering innovative marketing-led web applications based on a thorough understanding of business needs and technical requirements. Capable of leading a team of diverse developers, designers and testers to deliver robust software solutions in an Agile environment. These skills are underpinned by a wealth of technical development experience of close to 20 years across private and public sectors.

Has a high level of literacy and believes in transparency and open communication at all levels to drive business results and achieve goals. Works well under pressure and always seeks to learn and improve in order to achieve goals personally, professionally and in business.

- Won three industry awards for CreatedRed Media for inbound marketing campaigns for our clients
- Delivered a new e-commerce web solution for a local aggregate supplier that boosted transaction rates 100%, conversion rates by 200% and resulted in a revenue increase of 270%
- Developed a revamped online store for a dog food manufacturer that helped increase traffic by 65% and has grown monthly sales by 17%
- Planned and implemented inbound marketing campaigns for North Yorkshire County Council that enabled traffic growth by 167%, grew landing page conversion rates to over 26% and delivered 600 new leads for the business in our 9-month contract.
- Implemented observability initiative within ITV to improve visibility across the software pipeline, highlighting errors, deployment issues, code coverage, and more.
- Created centralised coding community within a large public organisation, pulling together disparate software teams towards a common goal.
- Built a Tailwind-based web component design system that is used across major child brands of Telefonica Germany.
- Became a published author of a popular book on learning to code and getting hired in the tech industry, and an online course, The Beginner's Guide to Real-World React, which has helped hundreds of students get started with Facebook's most popular UI library, React.js.
- Coding mentor to over 50 students, helping place aspiring developers in software engineering roles.

Expectations

Quite simply I'm looking to work with smart people on clever, challenging software solutions, especially when it comes to UX/UI. I love working in small, close-knit teams who can come together efficiently to iterate and move forwards with ideas and features to put them in front of customers and users.