Senior Frontend Engineer

Faculty is an applied AI company that helps organisations who have the scale, data, and foresight to adopt AI into their business. We’re helping make AI real across society by providing a unique combination of strategy, software and skills to our customers: everything needed to successfully create value from AI. Founder-led and with over 50 PhDs, we’re a team of specialists with experience across healthcare, finance, government, retail, engineering, construction and a host of other sectors.

We believe that AI should be trustworthy, impactful and beneficial across society. Those principles have shaped our work with more than 230 organisations across the public and private sectors as we help them use AI to act faster, make better decisions and understand more deeply. Thanks to our dedicated AI safety research programme, we’re constantly refining our systems to make AI safer, more secure and more reliable.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Frontend Engineer you will be joining one of our delivery teams or our product teams, with the opportunity to move across teams. Our delivery teams are responsible for visualising insights from the output of our data scientists, whilst our product team builds the technologies underpinning these projects. As a rapidly growing organisation, roles are dynamic and subject to change. Your role will evolve alongside business needs, but you can expect your key responsibilities to include:

• Lead a team of frontend engineers
• Hire into an existing team of frontend engineers or build an entirely new team
• Prioritisation, planning, coordination and communication of frontend features within the frontend team but also to external stakeholders
• Maintain the best practices and standards common to the whole frontend capacity of Faculty
• Training, mentoring and onboarding of new frontend engineers
• Create learning resources to be used across the team your are leading
• Setting up and maintaining the development and deployment infrastructure for the frontend team you are a part of
• Work with our data scientists, data engineers, UI and UX designers to build client facing products to bring Faculty's machine learning work to life
• Be involved from with the product life cycle from idea generation to shipping
• Actively look out for the best open source technologies to be used in development of Faculty's client facing products
• Be the go to authority for frontend software engineering within your team
• Create and maintain reusable component libraries that are used in projects company wide

Work with the following technologies:

• ReactJS/Redux
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• HTML5, CSS3
• Microservice architecture
• d3.js
• Design systems
• Node/Express
• Jest/Enzyme/Cucumber/WebdriverIO

Who you are

At Faculty, your attitude and behaviour are just as important as your technical skill. We look for individuals who can support our values, foster our culture and deliver for our organisation.

We like people who combine expertise and ambition with optimism, who are interested in changing the world for the better - and have the drive and intelligence to make it happen. If you’re the right candidate for us, you probably:

• Think scientifically, even if you’re not a scientist - you test assumptions, seek evidence and are always looking for opportunities to improve the way we do things.
• Love finding new ways to solve old problems - when it comes to your work and your professional development, you don’t believe in ‘good enough’. You always seek new ways to solve old challenges.
• Are pragmatic and outcome-focused - you know how to balance the big picture with the little details and know a great idea is useless if it can’t be executed in the real world.

Now for the practical part - to succeed in this role:

• You have experience building scalable, maintainable, and tested web applications in React/Redux.
• You have experience building backend APIs with Node JS.
• You are fluent in ES6 JavaScript, HTML, CSS3, and related web technologies.
• You have experience writing TypeScript or other typed languages.
• You have knowledge of data visualisation techniques and implementations, such as d3.
• You write code with security in mind, sticking to best practices and keeping up to date with changes in the field.
• You have an intuitive grasp of design and UX practices.
• You build and design systems for use across multiple platforms.
• You should have an understanding of build tools, such as Webpack and Babel.
• You have an understanding of the evolving JavaScript ecosystem.
• You have experience refactoring code where necessary.
• You’re able to work independently, while being able to collaborate with the team on broader features.

What we can offer you

Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. An incredible, unique learning and development system: Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people. Genuinely flexible working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success. Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family. Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments. Breakfast and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees). Did we mention Yoga? You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime. We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us.