Overview:
This exciting role offers a great opportunity for a creative and talented front end developer who is looking to join a small, focused, passionate, and supportive team to help contribute to the evolution of our core B2B ordering platform and play a key role in the transition to a next-generation digital ordering experience.
Reporting to the Software Development Manager you will help us improve our front-end applications to help drive productivity and efficiency within our business, and most importantly delight our customers.
As a highly motivated developer, with significant experience (at least 5 years), you will focus on creating features for modern cloud applications in Angular running on Azure. Within the digital products team, you will be the front-end expert, vital to sprint velocity, stand up, estimations, and retrospectives.
At a wider level, you will be critical to all stages of software development from architecture design, performance evaluation, to build and deployment pipeline creation, and application monitoring.

ABOUT OUR STACK

To give you a flavour of some of the things you can expect to work with, our core stack is outlined below.
However, we are constantly learning and, where appropriate, incorporating the latest technologies in our projects.
We use modern software development practices including CI/CD and feature flagging, and are always looking to improve delivery of our software through automation, and collaboration with other areas of IT.
Backend: C# / .Net / SQL Server / RESTful APIs / Azure Event Hub
Tools: LaunchDarkly, Grafana, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Copilot, Pluralsight
CI/CD: Azure Devops, GitHub Actions
Infrastructure: Azure, App Service, Cloudflare,
Frontend: Angular, React, Flutter
Who we are:
apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.
Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.
Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Angular and related technologies (TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, etc)
• Work closely with back-end developers, and product owners to translate business requirements into clean and functional user interfaces.
• Optimise applications for performance and scalability while ensuring application security.
• Implement unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the application.
• Push for continuous improvement and technical excellence in our solutions owning your code out into production.
• Engage with users to understand their challenges and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Being proactive in your development and the development of other engineers. Seeking out conferences, suggesting videos, always looking to develop skills and experience, where necessary.
• Find opportunities to get involved in teams outside of IT to improve your understanding of business & customer challenges.

About you:

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Angular and related technologies (TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, etc)
• Work closely with back-end developers, and product owners to translate business requirements into clean and functional user interfaces.
• Optimise applications for performance and scalability while ensuring application security.
• Implement unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the application.
• Push for continuous improvement and technical excellence in our solutions owning your code out into production.
• Engage with users to understand their challenges and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Being proactive in your development and the development of other engineers. Seeking out conferences, suggesting videos, always looking to develop skills and experience, where necessary.
• Find opportunities to get involved in teams outside of IT to improve your understanding of business & customer challenges