Senior Frontend Engineer - Maternity Cover Contract

Reward Gateway | Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients. Our shared missions of ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work' and ‘Enriching connections for good’ guide our every action and chart a sustainable path to a better future.

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join us on a fixed-term maternity cover contract. You'll build and ship high-quality frontend solutions using React and TypeScript, collaborate with globally distributed teams, and play a key role in delivering products that create exceptional experiences for our customers and their employees.

This role is being hired to support a period of parental leave within the team. The contract will remain in place until the completion of the agreed scope of work associated with the cover arrangement and any subsequent handover activities.

Wellbeing and benefits

We believe people perform at their best when they feel supported both professionally and personally. Our benefits have been designed around five core principles: Fairness, Choice, Balance, Wow and Easy. Benefits vary by country and location and are regularly reviewed to meet the needs of our people.

Find out more about our rewards, benefits and wellbeing offering here.

Flexible, hybrid working

Our office is for you to use as much as you like; as a minimum our Delivery team works from our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice a week.

• Build and ship fast, accessible, well-tested user interfaces in React and TypeScript
• Own your code from inception through to support in production
• Architect clean, simple solutions to business requirements
• Collaborate with backend engineers on API design, bringing a clear point of view on what the frontend needs and keeping APIs consistent, scalable and aligned with our architecture standards
• Work closely with designers and product stakeholders so that what we build meets business goals and improves the customer experience
• Help shape requirements and specifications, and flag UX challenges early with alternatives to Product Design
• Champion high-quality code by helping improve and enforce coding standards through thoughtful code review
• Use modern tooling, including AI-assisted development, responsibly to improve speed and quality (confirm this fits your policy)
• Collaborate with globally distributed, multi-disciplinary teams
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation
• Mentor colleagues and share knowledge across the team

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Frontend Software Engineer, building and delivering production-ready applications using React and TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge and application of software design patterns
• Experience with unit and integration testing, as well as code reviews
• Experience designing and consuming APIs, and the confidence to have an opinion on how they should work
• Proficiency with Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) workflows
• Strong English communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with multi-disciplinary teams

Nice to have

• Experience building accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA) interfaces
• Experience working with a design system
• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Familiarity with React Native
• Experience with performance optimisation
• Experience with production monitoring

Recruitment process

• Initial screening interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team
• A 90-minute online technical interview with our engineers and leads, covering:
  • A hands-on technical task
  • A code review exercise
  • A technical deep dive
  • Questions and answers

At Reward Gateway | Edenred we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate.

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