About Bark
Bark is an online services marketplaceconnecting customers with professionals across over 1,000 categories. Operating in nine countries including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, we're transforming how people find trusted service providers for everything from home improvement to professional services.
Our platform uses cutting-edge technology to match customers with the right professionals quickly and efficiently. With a global team of over 220 people, we're currently undergoing an exciting transformation: migrating from a lead generation model to a full marketplaceplatform with subscription based pricing.
As a profitable, PE backed scale up (EMK Capital), Bark offers the best of both worlds: the agility and innovation of a fast moving business combined with financial stability and resources for growth. We recently launched our new marketplacemodel in Australia (Q4 2025) and are preparing for rollout to the UK and US markets in 2026. You'll have genuine ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape our commercial strategy during a pivotal transformation phase with the chance to make your own contribution to our journey.
About the Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Front-End Engineer to join our growing team. You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of making beautiful and innovative products used by a million users every month. You’ll be passionate about writing scalable, testable and maintainable code to support our fast growing team.
We’re looking for someone who can help us take deliver great features while also maintaining and elevating the quality of our React apps. We are at a juncture where we move from an MVP to established products, and your experience will help shape our technology. You’ll have the opportunity to shape our expanding product offering and work on migrations and greenfield projects.
You’ll get the opportunity to implement and utilise a variety of technologies, paving the future of Bark whilst enhancing how we solve complex problems that impact millions of users every day. You’ll be encouraged to be as involved as you want, with an opportunity to influence every aspect of the process from ideation and architectural design, right through to implementation.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain elegant, responsive, and high-performing frontend experiences using React and TypeScript
Translate UX/UI designs into production-quality interfaces that work seamlessly across devices and browsers
Collaborate with product managers and designers to create and refine prototypes for usability testing, A/B experiments, and MVP launches
Optimise web performance and accessibility, ensuring our products are fast, inclusive, and meet best practices
Develop well-structured, maintainable code, and proactively suggest improvements to our codebase and architecture
Mentor and support other engineers, sharing knowledge and encouraging best practices across the team
Help shape technology decisions as we modernise our stack, influencing frontend architecture and tooling choices
Required Skills and Experience
5+ years experience working with large scale Front end frameworks in a production environment (React, Vue, Angular or similar)
4+ years recent experience working specifically with React
Proven, hands on experience with Javascript and/or Typescript
A solid understanding of, and ideally experience with, React component libraries
Strong experience building responsive web applications optimised for rich and interactive user experiences
Desired skills and experience
Experience migrating to a micro front end using React
Experience with DevOps solutions like AWS tools, and CI/CD pipelines
Interview Process
Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30 mins)
2nd Stage - Technical Task (90 mins)
3rd Stage - Values interview (30 mins)
Diversity Statement
At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.
Here at Bark, we are on a mission to revolutionise and become the market leader, go to online marketplace for professional services.
Bark is the UK’s largest & fastest growing services marketplace, helping people find the right professional for their project in over 1,000 unique categories. The business is already in scale up mode, profitable with a proven model but still has the feel and agility of a startup with a team of over 200 people and most of its work still to do.
We use cutting-edge technology and an extraordinarily talented team of people to solve an age-old problem; how to find the best available professional for any job, every time no matter what the need.
We are a dynamic, exciting, forward thinking business – but with the financial security of a PE backed, revenue generating established company – so you get all the benefits of working in a scale-up environment (ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation) without any of the worry. We placed sixth on the The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work for 2024. With a presence in eleven countries globally with imminent plans for further expansion you can join us at a genuinely exciting time where a true impact can be made.
