Software Engineer (Frontend)

about us:

Spectrum.Life is a whole-of-health digital partner that guides organisations and their people to thrive, delivering clinically backed digital health, mental health and wellbeing solutions.

Our HealthTech delivers digital transformation for Insurers, Educators and Employers through Co-creation or seamlessly integrated out-of-the-box solutions, that decrease digital fragmentation and engage, empower, and transform their people’s lives.

Established in 2018 by Stuart McGoldrick and Stephen Costello, Spectrum.Life provides services internationally to over 7.2m insurance members, 3,000 corporate clients, 60 universities and 650,000 university students. Spectrum.Life currently employs over 360 people.

Our vision is to change and save as many lives as possible.

role brief:

We are seeking a motivated and talented Software Engineer to help design and build upcoming features in our roadmap. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work on a range of different tasks from business-as-usual requests, multi-tenanted products, greenfield projects and bespoke client projects.
You will join a dynamic team and have the ability to influence not just our frontend ecosystem but our wider architecture. If you are passionate about building robust systems from the ground up, can work in a proactive and professional capacity, problem solve with minimal information, and provide feedback and estimates to clients this is the role for you.

responsibilities:

Front-end Development:

• Design, develop and deploy responsive, modular components using the latest in modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue).
• Build reusable components that pull from a modern accessible design system.
• Leverage TypeScript to ensure high maintainability, extensibility and scalable solutions.o Integrate with third party libraries for navigation, forms, state management and API layers.

• Take charge of your local development environment and see features through to production.
• Feedback and define on data contracts with the backend developers.
• Implement comprehensive testing, robust exception handling, and application monitoring to ensure high availability and minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with the team to maintain high standards for code quality and maintainability.

requirements:

• Fluent English speaking and written communication
• 3+ years working with a modern JavaScript/TypeScript framework (Vue.js, React.js etc).
• Demonstrable experience breaking down Figma (or equivalent) designs into modular reusable components in keeping with a Design System
• Experience with state management (Context, VueX, Redux, Zustand)
• Ability to feedback and discuss data contracts between the FE and BE
• Exposure to React Native and/or Expo for mobile apps
• Exposure to Test Driven Development, and ability to implement unit tests, component tests and integration tests
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment using scrum delivery methodology and using tools such as Jira/Confluence (or equivalent)
• Experience working in cross-discipline collaborative teams (e.g. Design, Data, Product, Dev, Infrastructure)

desirable:

• Experience with testing frameworks such as (Puppeteer, Playwright)
• Experience creating simple APIs and defining data contracts
• Experience with product analytic such as Mixpanel, Amplitude etc
• Experience working with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions etc.
• Experience developing solutions that are accessible (See WCAG)
• Desire to contribute to the wider technical quality of front-end solutions at Spectrum (from code to tooling).

what are the benefits of working at spectrum.life?

• Full time permanent contract
• Competitive salary (Dependent on experience).
• In-office, remote or hybrid working options
• 25 days annual leave
• 24/7 EAP and a wide range of health and wellbeing supports
• Extensive list of employee perks and benefits https://app.box.com/s/6wwkvowbev6cn7tlvq9yz32amnpmnvcl