Senior Front End Developer
An exciting opportunity to join a growing start-ups front end team where you'll enable small businesses to reach a huge audience. This is a real chance to have an impact whilst learning and growing
About Us
Snappy Shopper is the market leader in the growing Q-commerce convenience grocery sector, worth £41b in the UK. In addition to our independent retailers, we serve most of the major convenience store players, including Spar, Nisa, Premier and Booker.
Snappy exists to enable local high street businesses to serve their customers online so that local communities thrive, and revenue stays local. Retailers have seen revenue uplifts of between £5k and £120k per month, making the platform mission critical to local business.
Our location
We are a Scottish start-up with 140 colleagues based around the UK and our Head Office is located in Dundee and an additional office in Edinburgh.
This role can be completed remotely for those based in the UK but you can also base yourself from our Dundee or Edinburgh offices if that’s your preferred way of working.
About the team
Our Frontend Team play an exciting and pivotal role in ensuring our customers have the best experience when using our platform. As a startup, this team create visually appealing interfaces in an ever-changing environment whilst working with stakeholders from across the business including Product Managers, Engineers, Designers and Backend Devs. They play a key role in enabling our thousands of customers interact with a range of retailers (both large and small) online.
About the Role
As a Frontend Developer, you will use Nuxt.js to design, develop and maintain a range of high-quality web applications focusing on performance scalability and user experience.
Your duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Developing responsive, high performance web application using Nuxt.js and Vue.js
- Work with a range of technical colleagues to create seamless user experiences whilst ensuring applications maintain maximum speed and scalability
- Create, utilise and maintain code that is reusable and clean whilst following industry best practices
- Integrating RESTful APIs endpoints into frontend application
- Work with the wider team to contribute to code reviews and improve development processes
About You
You’ll be an experience Front End Developer with experience and/or knowledge of the following:
- A demonstrable portfolio of work which showcases Nuxt.js projects
- Stellar knowledge of key languages including JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 as well as key frameworks like Vue.js and Nuxt.js as well as key libraries like Vuex and Pinia
- Exposure to SSR (Server-Side Rendering) and static site generation
- Experience with version control systems, including Git
- An understanding of responsive design an mobile-first development principles
- Real interpersonal and problem-solving skills
Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll be/have:
- Knowledge of other frontend tools and build systems like Webpack, Vite or Babel.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud platforms (such as Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud) and serverless technologies
Who you are is as important to us as what you can do. Do these values and behaviours sound like something that would come naturally for you?
- Community: You’ll thrive working in a cross-functional team
- Be Snappy: You’ll be able to create work quickly, experimenting as you go
- Breaking Barriers: You’ll thrive in a fast-moving environment where you can try new things and approaches.
- Craic on: You’ll learn as you go whilst enjoying getting to know your colleagues.
What’s in it for you
If you’ve not already experienced it, time in a high growth Tech start-up is a whole new adventure! As the Company grows, so will your professional growth as you learn how to constantly apply your learning to scale the business at pace. The challenges and opportunities will constantly change, which means you’ll continually be developing new skills - you won’t get bored or be doing the same old routine.
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Applying
Don’t forget to include a cover note that tells us why you are interested in the role and shares more about who you are and what matters to you.
- Department
- Technology
- Locations
- Multiple locations
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Benefits and perks
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Holidays
Your leave entitlement starts at 32 days and increases the longer you’re with us – we love to reward loyalty
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Birthday day off
Take any day off during the week of your birthday to celebrate the occasion -
Paid sick leave
We know no-one plans on getting sick, but believe it’s important you can focus on resting and recuperating when you do -
Paid company parental leave
To let you spend more time getting to know your new addition -
Paid bereavement leave
To support you through some of life’s toughest times -
Paid domestic violence leave
To support you through some of life's most difficult times
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Cycle to work scheme
Save money, stay fit and help save the planet -
Employee Assistance Programme
Confidential external support when facing challenges, whether personal or professional, for you and your family -
Company pension scheme
To help you save for your future -
Referral bonus
Help us grow by referring great talent to Snappy. If we hire them, we pay you £1000. -
Performance-related reward
Depending on your role, you could be eligible for a performance-related bonus or share options
Working at Snappy
140 colleagues are part of our Snappy team and we're growing fast!
Our colleagues are located across the UK, from Inverness down to Portsmouth and across to Cardiff. Some of our jobs are located in our fabulous new Dundee office right bang in the city centre with incredible views over the water.
We’re creating a culture of High Alignment, High Autonomy and High Trust to drive our growth ambitions. What does this mean? It's about a work environment:
- where everything you do connects back to a bigger purpose
- where you’re empowered to become a ‘growth-hacker’
- where our leaders show empathy and care about our people
- where you can learn and grow at pace
- where you can work collaboratively across teams where peer support really matters
In our High Trust environment, Snappy colleagues have a voice:
- Join our monthly Town Halls and ask any questions you want the answer to
- Add an idea or suggested improvement to our Snappy Suggestions tool and vote for your favourites to inform Snappy priorities
- Participate in our Growth Book Club to shape our growth culture
- Complete our engagement survey to tell us how we can improve your experience
About Snappy Shopper
We’re a technology led Q-Commerce solution provider, delivering £140m of annualised sales for our 1700 business partners. Today we have two verticals, Snappy Shopper in the growing UK convenience grocery sector, and Hungrrr in the hospitality sector.
We intend on winning market share in the UK as rapidly as possible to achieve exponential growth, becoming one of Scotland’s most notable tech unicorns in the next few years.
The Snappy Shopper home delivery service makes it super easy to get your groceries delivered to your door from as little as 30 minutes, all whilst supporting your local convenience store.
Yep, that includes a full range of products: milk, eggs, bread and other daily essentials, fresh food, freezer fillers, cupboard must-haves, snacks and treats, pop and alcohol galore. Did we mention newspapers, pet food and other household goods too? It’s all just a few taps away and ready to be delivered to your home in a snap.
Your time is precious. You can use the Snappy Shopper grocery delivery service from the comfort of your home, on your commute or out and about. And, every time you place an order, you’re buying from your local store and supporting your community. It’s a win-win!
Download our App and order from your mobile.
Or visit http://www.snappyshopper.co.uk
Senior Front End Developer
An exciting opportunity to join a growing start-ups front end team where you'll enable small businesses to reach a huge audience. This is a real chance to have an impact whilst learning and growing
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