Full Stack Developer (Front-end Focus)

at  Wildkind

Technologies required: Typescript, React
Nice to have: Figma, Python, Flask, Postgres
Join us as Front-end Focused Full Stack Developer and see your work really come to life as you build software for a leading creative events business driving innovation in its field.
You will be instrumental in bringing joy to thousands of people as the systems you create facilitate life changing real world experiences.
You will participate in all areas of product design and engineering, designing intuitive and beautiful user experiences with our designer, writing high-quality code and collaborating with our product manager and technical lead to ensure we provide an exceptional experience for our customers.
We are committed to your growth too. Our supportive team champions continuous learning and we will invest in your skills so you can experiment, refine, and master your craft.
Your user insights and technical opinions will be highly valued and will influence key business decisions. This role provides the perfect blend of user experience challenges and opportunities to make a meaningful impact.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• Digital Development: Experience in developing websites, web applications and ideally mobile apps, with a focus on user-centric design.
• Depth of Knowledge: 2+ years of full stack or front end development experience.
• Technical Contributions: Experience in contributing to system design and assisting in technical decisions on medium-to-large scale projects or complex features.
• Front End Skills: Proficient with Typescript, ReactJS and React Native.
• Back End Skills: Some experience with a variety of APIs and SQL / NoSQL databases. Working knowledge of AWS and other cloud providers.
• UX/UI Skills: Experience collaborating with designers to create and improve designs. Some experience with, or interest in, creating simple mock ups in figma. Confident working from ideas or wireframes when designer time is limited.
• Time Management: Ability to work within project timelines, proactively communicate any delays and contribute to task re-prioritisation to keep things on track
• Data and Performance: Working understanding of data capture and performance tracking to improve UX/UI experiences.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

As a company we focus on objectives and results, with individuals involved in identifying the best ways to achieve them. We have included this list of responsibilities to give you an idea of the starting point for this position; the exact responsibilities will develop under team leadership.

• Design & Prototype: work with our designer to create and implement intuitive user experiences and interfaces that help users understand and engage with complex event programmes.
• Front-end Development: confident development and engineering of beautiful, functional and performant web and mobile apps.
• Back-end development: collaborating with technical lead to improve back end integrations and solve technical problems related to our cloud stack.
• Learning & Iterating: measuring and studying user behaviour and performance metrics and using insights to continuously improve user experiences.
• Coding & Testing: Write high-quality, performant, well organised, maintainable code with a focus on QA and testing, as well as code review of others work. Share and adapt reusable patterns and components when possible.
• Connectivity and Offline: Help build systems designed to accommodate for poor network connectivity (our live events take place in a green-field site with inconsistent wifi and 4G)
• Product Quality: Contribute to ensuring the overall quality, accessibility, stability, and security of digital systems and products, in alignment with both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Communication & Collaboration: Maintain transparent communication about project and task statuses, milestones, and potential risks, collaborating effectively with other developers and departments.

In this role you’ll be building publicly accessible, cloud based software solutions that our customers and team can interact with using web and mobile apps.

• Enhance and improve our Enrolment system for use during this Summers events
• Build and test a new Ticketing and Ecommerce system for event tickets, upsells, cross sells and add ons
• Enhance and improve our iOS app used during live events
• Build out a design system to allow for rapid prototyping, developing and testing of features
• Support our technical strategy and vision moving into 2025/2026 and beyon