Senior Frontend Engineer
MANUAL is a fast growing Healthtech scale-up, aiming to be the healthcare provider that millions of people trust as their partner to a long and healthy life. Our platform allows users to quickly and safely diagnose possible conditions, get treatment and support them afterwards to live a higher quality life. To do this we are building an all in one healthcare platform which brings together world leading medical expertise and technical excellence.
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to contribute to our mission to improve our patients' health and their lives, with the development of our web applications. This is a hybrid role for our office in London (UK) or Sofia (BG).
Who you are
- You’re a software engineer with at least 5 years commercial experience
- You have a genuine enthusiasm for software engineering and take no greater pleasure than finding the right solution to the problem at hand and making practical tradeoffs
- You are excited about contributing to a product that can drive positive change to the lives of millions of people around the world
- You have strong ownership mindset - “you build it, you run it”
- You’re eager to continuously learn, grow and step out of your comfort zone
- The idea of working in a successful, high growth startup in a fast paced role excites you
What you will do
Develop beautiful & reliable web applications
- Develop and maintain high-performance, secure, and scalable web applications for our own customer facing and internal products, systems and data platforms, and e-commerce capabilities using modern frameworks;
- Collaborate with the design/product team on improving user experience;
- Develop extensible platforms and architectures that make it possible to quickly and efficiently launch new products and lines of business;
- Actively improve the way we build front-end services and pave the road to solve new challenges;
- Evolve a Design System that leverages work of all Product and Tech teams.
Drive impact in a team environment
- You’ll work with other software engineers, designers, QAs, product managers, business stakeholders and domain experts
- You’ll drive impact and own your work end2end - from scoping & planning, architectural design decisions, implementation and testing, to production deployment and operations
What we need from you
- At least 5 years of commercial experience as a software engineer or equivalent.
- Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and building beautiful and responsive UIs;
- Solid knowledge of frontend design patterns
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and tooling.
- Experience with TDD and testable code - unit / integration / performance testing
- Great verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a simple way to non-engineering teammates.
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English is essential
- Ability to zoom in and out - be comfortable with getting into the relevant low-level details while also making the optimal tradeoffs for achieving the “big picture” goals.
- An eye for user behaviour and design and attention to detail
- This is a hybrid role and you need to be based in London (UK) or Sofia (BG) so you can be in the office 3 days per week
Other skills you might have
- A degree in CS or equivalent is a plus
- Experience developing and scaling high-performance, responsive user interfaces
- Experience with web performance optimization techniques with a strong focus on Core Web Vitals and SEO;
- Experience writing integration and e2e tests;
- Experience building and testing accessible applications;
- Experience in implementing in practices concepts of A/B Testing and Progressive Rollout of features to production;
- Have built or contributed to a Design System used by many different teams;
- Experienced with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or GCP;
- Practical experience with CI/CD and IaC (Infrastructure-as-code)
Our hiring process
- Team fit interview: you'll meet with product & tech leaders
- Case study: a take home tech task to assess your software engineering skills
- Tech interview: you'll meet with tech team and discuss your case study solution
- 2 Interviews with members of the senior leadership team
- Offer
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About MANUAL
We are destigmatising how people approach their health by offering easy access to diagnostics, a holistic range of treatments, ongoing care and medical advice, as well as a community to help proactively improve one’s health and wellbeing. A place that didn't exist until now.
Senior Frontend Engineer
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