As an expert in ecommerce, Typescript and NextJS, we need you to take an important role in greenfield and existing projects to continue to grow our highly successful £100m+ business.

In this position, your impact is direct and tangible. Your expertise will not only lead projects to success but have a visible contribution to our amazing Virgin Experience Days brand through customer facing solutions. If you are motivated to improve the user experience of millions of customers, enhance SEO and CWV, solve challenging engineering problems and work with exceptional people, we’d love to meet you.

• Lead Development Projects: 
  Successfully guide projects from conception to deployment, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.

• Innovate and Optimise:
  Continuously improve our software solutions, keeping them at the forefront of technology and user experience.

• Team Leadership:
  Mentor and lead some of our developers, fostering a culture of excellence and collaborative growth.

• Technical Excellence:
  Maintain high standards in software development, ensuring robust, efficient, and scalable solutions.

• Strategic Contribution:
  Actively contribute to the strategic planning of technology solutions, aligning with business goals and objectives.
  
  

• Design and develop scalable website applications using Typescript and frameworks including NextJS and React.

• Use TypeScript in a microservice architecture, with the opportunity to be involved in our cloud-based event-driven projects.

• Lead and mentor developers.

• Work effectively in our agile team, contributing to all aspects of the software development lifecycle.

• Be a key member of our Technical Design Forum to present and assess technical proposals.

• Ensure software quality, including through code reviews, comprehensive code coverage and clear technical design documentation.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing front end software.
  
  

• Technical Expertise:
  You need to have: 

  • TypeScript, 

  • NextJS, 

  • React, 

  • Node. 

• Great-to-have: 

  • Tailwind, 

  • Component-based libs/frameworks (Vue/Svelte/Angular),

  • Vercel/Netlify experience,

  • Nuxt/Remix,

  • Microservices,

  • RESTful APIs and SAAS integrations. 
    
    

• Experience:
  You’ve previously worked as a senior front end developer, in an eCommerce setting.

• Leadership Skills: 
  Experience in leading and mentoring teams.

• Problem-Solving: 
  Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Agile Methodology: 
  Familiarity with Agile practices and SCM tools like Git.

• Communication Skills:
  Excellent verbal and written communication.

• Adaptability:
  Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Education:
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or the equivalent work experience.

• Continuous Learning:
  Willingness to learn and adopt new technologies and practices.
  
  
  

• Enjoy Flexitime, working core hours of 7.5 hours per day with one hour for lunch; flexible starting and finishing times 
• Access to an award winning employee assistance programme to support your health and wellbeing
• Generous health cash plan
• £150 to spend each year on our experiences, for you to enjoy our products yourself
• Free breakfast in the office (cereal, toast, spreads, fresh fruit, coffee, tea)
• Access to our discounts scheme within the Virgin Group (Virgin Family Membership)
• Share extraordinary experiences with your friends and family with a discount