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Date Added: Tue 02/12/2025

Principal React Engineer

Belfast, UK
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Company: OCHO PEOPLE

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £70000 - £95000 per annum

What You Will Be Doing
  • Collaborating on front end product architecture for distributed systems, ensuring technical feasibility of UI and UX designs and optimising for speed, scalability and accessibility

  • Implementing information architecture and interaction design in alignment with back end specifications for complex applications

  • Working closely with business analysts, data scientists and project managers to understand capabilities, limitations and project requirements

  • Participating in the full software development life-cycle and communicating updates to the Head of Engineering or Development Director

  • Developing new user facing features and building reusable libraries for future use, including contribution to an internal design system

  • Writing clean, test driven code that aligns with standards and best practices

  • Testing features to ensure usability, accuracy and performance

  • Updating, repairing, modifying and developing existing software and internal applications

  • Collaborating with Customer Support and Implementation teams to resolve issues and bugs found in testing or production

  • Consulting with customers or internal teams on project status, proposals or technical issues

  • Supporting innovation by analysing trends, identifying new opportunities and contributing to idea generation activities

What You Will Bring

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field

  • Five or more years of relevant experience

  • At least one major competency outside of programming such as monitoring, performance optimisation, documentation, integration, testing or visual design

Technical Skills

  • React 18 and TypeScript including advanced hooks, strict typing, generics, composition patterns and performance optimisation

  • TanStack Query v5, Router v1, Table and Virtual

  • Vite for build optimisation and dev server configuration

  • Tailwind CSS including utility first styling and design system work

  • React Hook Form and Zod for complex validation and type safe API contracts

  • Nx Workspace including task orchestration, affected commands, custom generators and caching

  • Testing with Vitest, Cypress and MSW

  • Storybook 8 for component documentation and visual testing

Architectural Knowledge

  • Micro front end architecture within an Nx monorepo

  • Component driven development and design systems

  • Domain driven design principles

  • API first development using type safe contracts

Competencies

  • Strong integrity, ownership and ethics with high performance standards

  • Clear and open communication across all formats

  • Collective mindset with the ability to build relationships across diverse perspectives

  • Outcome focused approach with discipline and resilience

  • Service oriented mindset focused on understanding needs and exceeding expectations

  • Curiosity and a growth mindset with an interest in technical and business improvement

  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking aligned to organisational goals

Why Join
  • Opportunity to lead front end engineering and influence modernisation across a complex product suite

  • Work with modern and forward thinking technologies

  • Collaborate with teams across engineering, data, customer support and implementation

  • Contribute to a global product used by leading food production and retail organisations

If you are interested or have any questions about the role, please contact Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn.

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