FreeAgent is one of the leading online accounting platforms in the UK with over 50,000 customers and continued fast growth. We’re on a mission to democratise accounting for small businesses across the world! Our app is loved by tens of thousands of people worldwide, and it’s a great opportunity to be a part of something that makes a real difference.

We are looking for a Senior Front-end Engineer to join our engineering team. As our first dedicated front-end engineer you will spend your time evolving and communicating our overall front-end technical strategy, as well as working across our product development teams to help them deliver features with exceptional front-end code. Mentoring software engineers is a key part of this role.

You will have several years of hands-on JavaScript development experience on a commercial app and will be able to demonstrate technical leadership in front-end architecture. As well as exceptional skills in front-end engineering, you will also have solid experience of back-end technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with technical leadership on defining our long-term, strategic front-end roadmap

• Be an individual contributor by working within product development teams on front-end code for new feature development and improvements to existing features

• Be the chair of our cross-team ‘JavaScript Chapter’

• Evangelise and uphold best practices, standards and guidelines for front-end development through training, mentoring and in-house technical talks and seminars

• Undertake and deliver major front-end software refactorings

• Coaching and mentoring of software engineers