Senior Frontend Developer

About Elsewhen:

Elsewhen, a London-based consultancy, designs digital products and services for clients like Spotify, Google, Inmarsat, and Zego. Over the past decade, we have built a workplace prioritising impact, drive, and friendliness. We value outcomes over hours and agility over rigid processes.

Work Environment:

• Remote-first setup: Fully remote work with the option to use a WeWork membership for those who prefer occasional office access.
• Join our team: https://www.elsewhen.com.

Role: We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong Vue.js experience to help shape and deliver a scalable and consistent front-end strategy across multiple products. You’ll collaborate closely with our teams and play a critical role in building modular, reusable components while ensuring a seamless integration process. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact projects for a major client, contributing to a shared component library and supporting independent product teams to deliver best-in-class user experiences.

Things you will be doing:

• Translate visual designs into app components with extremely high fidelity. Build and maintain a reusable component library in Vue.js, ensuring components are modular, accessible, and optimised.
• Documentation & Storybook Integration: Maintain clear, user-friendly documentation for components. Implement and deploy Storybook for live component previews, usage examples, and prop definitions.
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
• You may configure the front end's continuous integration and code-quality tools. (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Implement design tokens and CSS variables for theming support. Showcase theme-switching capabilities in Storybook to enable white-labelling.
• Collaborate with the backend team to feedback on APIs (OpenAPI) designs to support front-end requirements.
• Work with Product and Design teams to understand requirements, address blockers, and align on best practices. Contribute to frontend tooling setups (linting, testing, versioning) to streamline development workflows.

Your Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in front-end development, with a focus on React and Vue.js (Vue 3) in an Agile development environment and building medium/large-scale web applications
• Extensive experience with React and its Ecosystem (React Query, Vite, Styled Component etc).
• Extensive experience with VUE and its Ecosystem
• Extensive experience with different state management frameworks (redux etc)
• You have strong fundamentals in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Proven experience building and managing component libraries for enterprise-level projects.
• Familiar with component-based ecosystems. (design systems, Storybook, Figma)
• Experience with publishing NPM and GitHub packages
• Experience with Auth0 integration
• You have an in-depth understanding of front-end architecture and performance experience optimisation
• you have excellent communication skills and can demonstrate your ideas, especially to those not technologically proficient. 
• Familiar with the latest trends and toolings
  • CSS variables, design tokens AND theming.
  • Storybook for documentation and interactive previews.
  • Modern build tools: Vite, or similar.
  • CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment (Jenkins and Github Actions)
  • Familiarity with testing tools: Jest, Chromatic/Percy, axe-core (for accessibility).
  • End to End testing such as Playwright

Desirable

• Experience with Chart.JS and/or similar charting technologies.
• Experience with the Google Cloud Platform

Benefits:

• Private Health Insurance: Comprehensive coverage for both physical and mental health.
• Flexible and Remote-First Work Environment: Choose how and where you work, with the option for weekly team meet-ups in central London.
• Generous Leave Policy: 27 days of holiday plus bank holidays, along with enhanced paternity (6 weeks) and maternity leave (16 weeks) or shared parental pay.
• Learning and Development: Individual annual budget of £2,000 for learning and development, with dedicated learning days.
• Feel Better Fund: £500 to help set up your remote office.
• Social Events: Monthly and quarterly team events, an annual team trip, and half-yearly social events.
• Gym Membership Contribution: Support for maintaining your physical health.
• Additional Perks: Includes Amazon Prime, cinema perks, and more.
• Pension Contribution: Enhanced employer pension contribution of 6%.
• Bonus Opportunities: Potential to receive a discretionary (non-contractual) bonus based on business and personal achievements.

Our Commitment to Diversity:

Diverse thoughts, backgrounds, and perspectives create stronger teams and better technology. We welcome everyone, regardless of culture, appearance, or perspective, fostering individuality. We empower our team to challenge norms, grow ideas, and produce their best work.