Senior Front-end Lead

Location: Gothenburg
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 5 months + extension
Job type: Contract or Employment
Workload: 100%

Introduction

A great opportunity now available for a Senior Frontend Lead who wants to work with high skilled colleagues in an agile environment in an exciting and innovative company that develop cutting edge solutions and services. Together with your team you will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of your services.

This is a new position and they are currently looking for a talented Front-end Lead to join their team. Initially part remote with access to the Gothenburg office, then Gothenburg-based. English speaking environment. For this role we can only consider candidates that are currently based in Sweden or who are Swedish, Nordic or EU citizens.

Job brief

In this role you possess empowering leadership skills with a strong delivery focus by taking control and leading other Frontend Developers. Your responsibility areas will be to prioritise their backlog, coordinating and structuring the different customer change requests. Since this is a new role in the organisation, we believe that you will influence and take ownership in how the role should be shaped with your experience within Frontend. You are also able to work under demanding and changing conditions and being the Single Point of Contact for the Frontend Developers.

This is not primarily a developer role but you must have a good understanding of front-end development.

Profile

If you are passionate in creating great user experience, supporting great colleagues, feel great ownership of the products you deliver and are willing to cater for the complete lifecycle of the product then you are the one we are looking for.

Technologies involved

- Javascript
- Typescript
- Node
- React
- Angular

Required skills & experience

- English language proficiency
- Academic degree within Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar relevant experience
- Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience
- Programming experience (e.g. React, Angular, Node)
- Experience in Project management
- Experience in JavaScript

Good to have

- Team lead
- Frontend frameworks
- Agile Practices (TDD, pairing, BDD, CI, CD)
- Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
- NodeJS
- Typescript
- DevOps Experience
- AWS S3 & CloudFront

Cultural fit

- Leadership skills
- Good communication skills
- Understanding lifecycle of an enterprise-level project
- Self-driven and curiosity in mindset

How to apply

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your current CV in Word format and a brief covering note highlighting your suitability for the role.

Please be aware of the important role that you CV plays in the evaluation. Your CV must clearly illustrate the specific skills relevant to this role and how you have applied them in the past.

Please only apply if you have Swedish, Nordic or EU nationality or are resident in Sweden.

Your CV must be in English.

Disclaimer

Please note that the required requirements have to be met in full in order for us to present your profile to our client. Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Our client is keen to bring on board enthusiastic and keen candidates who have a desire to learn and grow within a collaborative environment.

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications, not all submissions will receive feedback.