You are a self-driven developer, enthusiastic about modern browser-based development. You have a good eye for UX, design and beautiful user interfaces. You write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and can empathise with less technical users. You are familiar with designing and maintaining REST APIs and have a good overall knowledge of cloud services.
The Role:
You will be working with a cross functional agile team to deliver customer facing web experiences, helping audio enthusiasts and professionals find and purchase the right products and connecting them to our ecosystem to get more value of their purchases.
You will help shape this ecosystem of hardware and software products ensuring consistency when moving between services.
You will contribute to designing the platform in a highly available, scalable, and observable way while continuously improving the user experience based on feedback.
Duties:
Write excellent, maintainable code, and take part in code reviews.
Work together with designers to implement beautiful and accessible user interfaces.
Implement features and fix bugs across the stack.
Discuss design and implementation details with the rest of the team.
Adopt modern development practices with the team.
Review pull requests from other team members.
Mentor to more junior members of the team.
Skills and experience required:
You have experience developing commercial web applications at scale.
You have 3+ years of experience with JavaScript (Typescript being a plus) You are proficient in a modern JavaScript framework (we use React and Node).
You have developed REST APIs (and/or GraphQL).
You are familiar with web development tooling (webpack, npm, etc) You have experience with cloud services. We use AWS lambda, dynamo DB, API gateway extensively.
You’re a strong advocate for testing code and doing pair programming, You understand common web infrastructure tooling (CDN, databases, in memory caches, etc…).
You are familiar with git-based workflows (pull requests, rebasing, etc.). We use GitHub.
Experience of any of the following would be an advantage:
Good HTML/CSS knowledge
Experience with ecommerce and integrating with payment gateways A DevOps mindset (infrastructure as code, monitoring, etc) Experience working Experience with GraphQL
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, its solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under eight established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio and Ampify Music. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise and the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome and positively represented, whether office-based or working remotely. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, company music events, free breakfast/lunch in the canteen at Focusrite HQ. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.
Term: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £60000 pa depending on experience + excellent benefits
How to apply:
https://apply.workable.com/focusrite/j/C02D74FDC2/
