Lead Software Engineer- Front End

Role: Lead Software Engineer - Frontend

Experience: 6-10 years

Where the job is based: Bangalore/Pune

This role demands 3 days of work from the office every week and flexibility to work during UK hours whenever required

Who we are:

Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our developers and designers to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our developers are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking architects.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.

Primary Responsibility:

Developing simple, yet powerful Rich UI applications using ReactJS Essentials
• Building rich UX focussed SPA applications, principally via ReactJS and including extensive presentation of bespoke business processes
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Effectively leading a multi-developer team and be the point of contact for India UI team
• Reviewing documentation, designs and implemented solutions alike to ensure proposed approaches are implementable
• Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• Being highly delivery focused and engaging effectively with all types of team members to drive projects forwards
• Other tasks as reasonable requested

NOTE: as is common with this type of role, remote location and occasional out-of-hours working will be required to support customer interests

Essential Skills:
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS or similar JS MVC frameworks
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JS object model
• Experience with Redux or similar workflow
• Keen eye towards benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Working within large, distributed, polyglot programmed projects
• Must have experience of leading teams

NB: Candidates with Software Product development experience is preferred.

Desirable Skills:
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• .Net or PHP; ideally building public WebAPI services
• Mobile development experience is a plus
• MariaDB/MongoDb or similar NoSQL knowledge huge plus
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, EC2 etc. highly regarded

"At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together