Software Engineer (Front End)

AnyVan makes moving anything anywhere, easier, more affordable and greener for everyone. With Over 8 million customers across the UK and Europe since our launch over a decade ago, we’re proud to be known as the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry. Like many popular marketplaces, we’re asset light – i.e., we don’t own any vehicles or employ any drivers. We work with our transport partners and use technology to disrupt the entire delivery and moving process to optimise the most efficient journeys. Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves, and we won’t stop here! So if you want to move your career forward we'd love to hear from you! The new scale AnyVan will be operating at will mean bigger technology challenges and a need to find ever more efficient ways for technology to support our ability to fulfil deliveries and provide seamless experiences for our transport partners and consumers. There’s no shortage of complex scale, user experience, data, and logistics problems to solve that will keep our team technologically and intellectually challenged! The team is highly collaborative, organised as cross-functional squads with product, data engineering, data science and software engineering working in partnership to deliver value to our customers. We run 100% in AWS, with high levels of automation, infrastructure as code and increasing usage of serverless technologies. As a Software Engineer you’ll be supported and developed to expand both your technical tool kit and non-technical competencies like stakeholder engagement, getting buy-in to your ideas, communication skills, etc that are equally important for today’s technology experts. We offer great progression within engineering, and offer opportunities to explore both technical and people leadership career paths. Our engineers are given the freedom and autonomy to make empowered decisions, research new technologies and learn and share knowledge with their peers. What you'll be doing:

• Help us grow our business by writing and maintaining an efficient and maintainable codebase in the following languages - JS Frameworks e.g. Vue.js Angular, React, CSS
• Perform code reviews, providing constructive feedback and act as a mentor to less experienced members in the team
• Continually look to raise the bar on code quality and our use of frameworks, evangelising best practices and facilitating open discussion for the team to challenge itself
• Focus on the end user experience for our products, adhering to best practices and industry standards
• Follow best-in-class agile processes and promote best practice around UI tasks
• Drive for use of accepted design patterns to allow for autonomous and iterative development and future scaling needs
• Understand the business context to allow you to anticipate and minimise the cost of future change
  
  

What skills and experience would set you up for success in the role:

• Solid experience working with web front end technologies (JS Frameworks, e.g. Vue, React, Angular, AWS)
• A proven mobile first approach to front-end development, with an excellent understanding of the impact of code construction on page load speeds
• Genuine passion for the end product and delivering outstanding customer experiences through delivering pragmatic, logical and maintainable code
• Some familiarity of working with API’s
• An in-depth understanding of web development practices and technologies and tools
• A broad understanding of the software development lifecycle and practical hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery & QA
• Experience working in and driving an Agile development environment
  
  

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience working in a fast paced consumer focused environment
  
  

Perks of the job:

• A highly competitive base salary that reflects your value
• Take a Break: 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, Christmas Eve on us and Long Term Service perks capped at 30days
• Keeping you healthy: In house gym, the opportunity to join Vitality with a hole host of wellbeing benefits and medical cover and enhanced sick pay
• Prepare for the future: The People's Pension with 5% employee and 3% employer contributions
• Family leave: enhanced maternity pay
• Travel: We're 2 mins walk from the tube, partner with Octopus Electric Vehicles and Evans Cycle to Work scheme, and have showers and towels if you cycle!
• Keeping you refreshed: Enjoy an in-house barista and free breakfast every day
• Social Scene: Thursday drinks and regular social activities
• Celebrating Success: 1/4 performance awards with prizes and an annual performance awards - last years winner enjoyed a 4 day all expenses paid trip to the French alps!
• Skills Booster: Opportunity to join a disruptive Technology Leader and be part of a fast-growing, innovative company reshaping the industry
  
  

DE&I In our pursuit of fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, we invite individuals from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. Together, let's create a culture where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every person is empowered to thrive. Please note if we are able to support visa sponsorship it will be highlighted in the requirements section of the job advert. Working Patterns We are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides - all our roles require regular time in our office in Hammersmith. We do not offer fully remote roles but we support hybrid working wherever possible (3 days in office, 2 days from home). However, to meet the needs of our customers and business operations many of our Operational and Commercial roles are fully office based. Our Values Are Own, Drive, Deliver: Own - Have fun, get it done Work hard, play harder Satisfaction in results Do the right thing Drive - Progress Over Perfection Innovate and disrupt Curious and adaptable Work quick, learn quicker Deliver - One Team Thinking Big Collaborate and communicate Celebrate wins Embrace challenges