Senior Front End Software Engineer - help grow out a tech function in a big firm at GfK (London, UK)

About GfK

We are Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organization in the world. Our vision is to be the indispensable, trusted data and analytics partner for the durable goods and technology industries and respective retailers. Everything we do starts with our clients. We collaborate across boundaries with a can-do attitude and lean mentality. We focus on what matters most so that we deliver real value. Innovation is in our DNA. We bring new products to market quickly and focus on continuous improvement. We dare to take educated risks and fail fast.

Many say they have big data problems, we do have big data and big problems to solve. We apply modern technology and proven practices to solve problems around big data storage, big data processing, machine learning, complex data visualisation.

Help lead the digital transformation of GfK and be an impactful participant in shaping the future of market research.

About You

You are a seasoned software engineer passionate about building beautiful, functional and performant web front ends that delight users. You understand how front ends get delivered to user's browsers and how they execute their code there. You understand how to engineer code so that it runs fast and secure for both first time visitors as well as users that have been using the frontend for hours or days. You are obsessed about separating content from presentation through the adoption and effective use of CSS frameworks. You build to open standards but cognizant of implemented browser behaviour. You build JavaScript front end code with software engineering best practices and have effectively scaled these practices to the size of an engineering team. You follow the technology trends within front end software development, know of the framework of the month and the new shiny tool delivering salvation but have learned to write code that stands the test of time. You have used various front end code and asset transpilers, compilers and packagers, you know and have used in the past some (not necessary all) of these tools and languages: ES6, TypeScript, Sass, Less.

 You will be working in our newly established London development centre. You will be a pivotal member of our team and have the opportunity to establish our front end stack based on Vue.js and be laying down foundations on front end development standards and practices. You will be working as part of a cross functional agile team of technologists and data scientists to implement our new generation of software products with a focus on their front ends.

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