Senior Front-end Software Engineer

Ocado Technology is building the next-generation grocery ecommerce suite that ́s changing the way the world shops.

At Ocado Technology, we're an ambitious global company completely transforming the way the world shops with our cutting-edge AI, ML and robotic technology. With our retail partners spanning the globe, there's a huge amount of growth and opportunity.

The e-commerce stream plays a key role in offering frictionless, convenient, and hyper-personalised shopping experiences for millions of global users across multiple platforms, in different regions, languages, currencies, and more.

Based in our Barcelona office in the heart of the 22@ hub, this amazing community of 27+ nationalities offers an unparalleled culture focused on growth and learning.

As a Frontend Web Engineer you will play a crucial role in developing customer-facing web front-ends and core functionalities for our Content Management System (CMS). You will be responsible for the "Banner Adverts" mission and play a crucial role in developing customer-facing web front-ends and core functionalities for our Content Management System (CMS). As part of the Shop Stream you will contribute to high-impact projects and work with cutting-edge technologies like React and TypeScript.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Working with UX and Product teams to understand problems, propose solutions and bring them to life.
• Build functionality that works across locales in countries around the globe.
• Explore new technical approaches to better our engineering practices.
• Design solutions which can be understood and improved upon by others.
• Take into account the business, technical and economic context when making design decisions.
• Assess multiple solutions to problems and be able to articulate these to the business where necessary.
• Work with your team to deliver valuable contributions of high quality, in the timescales agreed by your team.
• Participate in the full delivery lifecycle, from technical discovery to value validation.
• Contribute to discussion and influence technical direction.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential

• Experience writing modern Javascript
• Proficient with CSS
• A passion for great UX
• A fundamental understanding of automated testing
• Comfortable writing production-quality code, and rapid prototyping
• Strong collaboration skills that will allow you to work effectively alongside a cross-functional team
• A desire to learn from others in order to improve your breadth and depth of knowledge. Desirable
• Experience using React
• Experience using TypeScript
• Node.js experience
• RESTful API design
• Experience with CSS-in-JS or CSS preprocessors
• Building features with accessibility as a core requirement

Please let us know in your application if you need any special adaptations for the selection process. At Ocado Barcelona we adapt our selection processes to our candidates.
Be bold, be unique, be brilliant, be you. We are looking for individuality and we value diversity above gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, disability or union participation. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly and equally.

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About Ocado Group

When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. 20 years later, we’re developing our own ground breaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world!

Transforming an industry also means transforming the way we do business.   As we continually develop new technologies and customer propositions, we’re looking for the Everyday Pioneers to lead us into the next stage of our evolution: enhancing our capabilities, inspiring our teams and developing new ways of working.

Changing the way the world shops, for good.