Front End Engineer, Bucharest

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Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations - from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

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Why we're hiring:

The vision of the WPP Open Platform is to create a common development and architecture framework, with supporting infrastructure, for the development of digital products across WPP. The platform will provide the single point for access to world class technology and data for our agencies; allowing them to build and scale products and applications, then share them across the business, improving visibility and collaboration. With Open, we expect to address our client needs faster and reduce the time to market for new capability.

As a Front-End Engineer, your primary focus will be building the 'Client side' of our product, working alongside back-end developers to create a comprehensive digital platform. You are able to develop frontend systems with a high degree of accuracy, you will consistently develop code that is aligned with the overall vision to ensure the highest quality development is always achieved and it creates a great user experience. You will have excellent knowledge of the DevOps process and can work with large and complex codebases to ensure our product is leading edge.

What you'll be doing:

• You will work very closely with the rest of the team to ensure our systems are fit for purpose through a nuanced understanding of the business context and the factors that drive the product life cycle.
• You will work closely with the Engineering Lead & Product leads across the other product areas in the business
• You will influence the management of technical debt across projects; making the right calls between balancing pragmatic delivery and compromising implementation patterns
• You will be the senior contact/escalation point for front-end people issues, hiring and working with operational leads to effectively onboard new team members
• You will regularly take part in the Product definition
• You will conduct regular code review of your colleges and ensure PRs are completed on time
• You will develop components that are used by other teams in order to help them implement intuitive and consistent user interfaces
  Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices and industry standards
  Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in web development to continuously improve skills and contribute to the team's knowledge base

What you'll need:

• 2+ years of experience as a Front-end Engineer (Front-end: React, Redux, rxjs, Angular, Vue)
• Extensive knowledge of Vanilla JS
• Extensive knowledge of WebStandards and WebAPIs
• Good knowledge of React
• Good knowledge of development principles (both OOP and functional)
• Experience of developing responsive web apps
• Experience in writing semantic HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processors like Sass and Less
• Understanding of app/browser performance improvement techniques and potential cross-browser issues
• Significant experience in working with senior stakeholders to manage expectations and provide technical insight
• Significant and demonstrable Cloud Computing experience with knowledge of Cloud Native products
• Significant and demonstrable experience of using Unix / Linux based Operating Systems
• An ability to understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions rapidly and effectively
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development (Jest, Enzyme) alongside use of automated test frameworks, mocking/stubbing
• Proven experience of project working and commercial development processes - particularly Agile methodologies
• Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
• Experience of working with Operational tooling surrounding the SDLC such as IAC, CI/CD
• Significant and demonstrable experience designing microservice architecture patterns
• Experience of working with API implementation patterns and interfaces
• Ideally, you have used GCP extensively
• Strong spoken and written English

Who you are:

You're open : We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic : We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people - We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity - We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work - Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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