Senior Frontend Engineer

Who is Bridge U

At BridgeU, we are on a mission to break down barriers and empower students to reach their full potential. We believe talent knows no boundaries, and we’re here to help students discover the best opportunities, wherever they may be.

Our software connects universities with the most promising schools and students in over 140 countries, making finding the perfect match for their programs and courses easier than ever. We are the market leader in university and career guidance software for international and globally-minded secondary schools.

With BridgeU, you can expect to be at the forefront of education technology, making a real tangible difference in the lives of students around the world. So join us on this exciting journey of discovery and opportunity.

Who you’ll be working with:

Our teammates are talented individuals who come from a variety of backgrounds. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and kindness, which creates a work environment that helps enrich the product and support we provide to our customers.

We are remote-first but we do have offices in London and Hong Kong for those who wish to use them, as well as fully remote employees across 11 different countries. We also aim for team members to travel between our offices to have face-to-face time with one another to bond, work together and have fun.

What’s the opportunity?

The Senior Front End Engineer will be responsible for building user interfaces and front-end systems. This role is highly collaborative and will be deeply embedded within the wider work of BridgeU. As a Senior Front End Engineer, you will also work heavily with other Frontend engineers within your squad and chapter, experienced Product Managers, Designers and Data Scientists to help shape the future of our product.

We are looking for people with a natural willingness to learn new technologies and who are keen to share their knowledge with others. Our current tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, Elm, Vue.JS and PostgreSQL. But we are currently going through a technical transformation project to a new technology stack utilising Svelte as the main frontend framework.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contribute actively to the development of new features for our product, as well as to the ongoing maintenance and improvements needed.
• Collaborate with the Frontend chapter lead on the front-end focused technical and architectural discussions.
• Collaborate with people from the wider product team to assess the feasibility of new ideas and ensure the delivery of features.
• Driving the delivery of projects through building out plans, delegating tasks and communicating progress to stakeholders.
• Help and mentor other members of your team.
• Communicate technical decisions to stakeholders.
• Driving improvement work through the analysis of feedback and data to prioritise the highest value add work items.

Requirements

What you’ll bring:

• Considerable experience with modern frontend technologies and frameworks such as Svelte, Vue, Elm, Typescript.
• Experience with client-server architecture using either RESTful APIs or GraphQL.
• Knowledge of Bootstrap, Storybook and other UI libraries.
• Experience with cross-browser development and testing.
• Experience with design systems setup, maintenance and utilisation.
• Experience in maintaining CI/CD pipelines and build tools such as CircleCI, Webpack & Vite.
• Experience in product-focused teams and mentoring other team members.
• Ability to work with designers to move forward the best user experience for the web and mobile.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• A strong thirst for knowledge and upskilling.

What will you get in return?

Flexibility - Lots of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexed hours in the working day, and we offer an option of either fully remote, office-based in London, or the blend of hybrid working between both that suits you. Our policies are designed to support a high-performing team and to accommodate as many different circumstances as possible as we know flexibility looks different for everyone. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but please talk to us about the flexibility you need and let’s see how we can make it work.

Benefits

Additionally we offer

• Salary in the range of £65k to £82k per annum, depending on experience.
• 25 days annual leave per year (rising with service) plus bank holidays
• In addition your birthday is off every year and additional paid volunteering leave.
• Employer’s pension scheme
• Medical Benefits
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies
• Company-funded social events
• Investment in your professional development and opportunities for career progression
• A comfortable and covid-secure office in London
• A range of attractive benefits and corporate discounts
• Access to confidential counselling as well as financial and legal advice from our Employee Assistance Programme
• An open and democratic work culture where everyone can contribute, learn and teach
• Company-paid subscription to Calm
• Personal development: the company can fund books, courses and conferences to help you learn and grow
• Annual offsite: we organise a retreat once a year where the whole company gets together

Equal Opportunities

We are a global team with a global mindset, cherishing and protecting diversity as one of our core values. We are always looking to diversify the talent in our team.

Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, belief, marriage or civil partnership. If you feel you don’t quite meet all the criteria in the job spec but have the potential to do the role, we’d still love to hear from you.