Lead Front-End Engineer
Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams
Your New Role at NewDay
Managing a squad building innovative products, services and interfaces for our customers and partners. Key contributor to web design and architecture to deliver the best user experience Our teams have the desire to be curious, passionate and driven, with proficiency in algorithms, problem solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. Effective communication is an attribute we care deeply about, and as a People Manager you and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment to achieve outstanding results - join us in helping millions move forward with credit.
What You'll Bring:
We're looking for someone with a mix of knowledge, experience, and expertise in:
• Team Management: Experience in leading and mentoring teams, including 121s, reviews and development sessions to drive high performance. You will be responsible for leading a squad of expert engineers.
• You’re a front-end Maestro! Your knack for writing semantic, accessible and modular code with React and JavaScript frameworks including NextJS & Remix, gives you the right grounding to guide your teams through complexed technical journeys in the Cloud.
• Championing Agile ways of working with your team, utilising agile methodologies partnering with Product to own the roadmap of new features and functionality.
•API Integration: Proficiency in integrating with services using RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
•Testing Mastery: Strong testing skills, from code quality and security to ensuring seamless customer journeys and accessibility
What We'd Love You to Know or Learn:
• CI/CD Pipelines: Practical experience setting up and running CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• Design Principles: Using Storybook, embracing atomic design principles, and contributing to design language systems.
• BFF Architecture: Familiarity with Backend for Front End (BFF) architecture.
• Monitoring Expertise: An understanding of monitoring and observability to ensure high-quality product performance.
About NewDay
We help people move forward with credit, and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic NewDay culture
We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
Where Next?
In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Leader or IC career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.
Our Engineering Community foster continuous learning, whether that’s in innovation days, hackathons or achieving Microsoft accreditations.
Join us and be the tech hero we're looking for!