Job Description

About the Role:

As our Frontend-focused Developer, you will join an agile team led by a Delivery Manager. Your primary responsibility will be developing the user interface for our quality-centric eCommerce platform, which serves millions of users worldwide. You will collaborate with other developers and have the opportunity to influence the platform's design, enhance our team's skillset, and drive its evolution in line with the future roadmap.

We are looking for a passionate developer with a commitment to continuous improvement and a collaborative spirit. You should be comfortable with modern technologies and tooling, applying best practices to enhance the user experience and boost developer efficiency.

Your responsibilities will also include providing development support to internal users and participating in an on-call rota for out-of-hours cover during peak trading periods. Furthermore, you will leverage your experience to drive the continuous improvement of our team's processes and working practices.

About you:

Essential criteria

• Strong experience of modern Javascript frameworks and libraries such as React, NextJS.
• Some experience of using NodeJS to high performance sites.
• Awareness and practice of UI performance best practices.
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code.
• Good knowledge in industry best practices in development.
• Experience in creating a responsive site with multiple viewports.
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude.
• Mentored junior developers in development methodologies and optimisation techniques.

Desirable

• Understanding of service-oriented architecture.
• Understanding of industry standard web accessibility, web design & usability.
• Experience in building Micro Frontends.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in working Agile team.

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!