Job Description
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About Faculty
Faculty transforms organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-led AI.
We are Europe's leading applied AI company, and saw its potential a decade ago - long before the current hype cycle.
We founded in 2014 with our Fellowship programme, training academics to become commercial data scientists.
Today, we provide over 300 global customers with industry-leading software, and bespoke AI consultancy for retail, healthcare, energy, and governmental organisations, as well as our award winning Fellowship.
Our expertise and safety credentials are such that OpenAI asked us to be their first technical partner, helping customers deploy cutting-edge generative AI safely.
Our high-impact work has saved lives through forecasting NHS demand during covid, produced green energy by routing boats towards the wind, slashed marketing spend by predicting customer spending habits, and kept children safe online.
AI is an epoch-defining technology. We want people to join us who can help our customers reap its enormous benefits safely.
About the role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer you will be working closely with one or multiple of our delivery teams who are responsible for visualising insights from the output of our data scientists. We are looking for someone with technical leadership experience who can drive best practice and standards in our evolving frontend guild.
Working within the Defence Business Unit, you'll be working on delivery solutions to some of the most unique challenges facing customers in that space using AI and Machine Learning.
Your role will evolve alongside business needs, but you can expect your key responsibilities to include:
- Leading a team of frontend engineers
- Prioritisation, planning, coordination and communication of frontend features within the frontend team but also to external stakeholders
- Setting up and maintaining the development and deployment infrastructure for the frontend team you are a part of
- Working with our data scientists, data engineers, UI and UX designers to build client facing products to bring Faculty's machine learning work to life
- Maintaining the best practices and standards common to the whole frontend capacity of Faculty
- Training, mentoring and onboarding of new frontend engineers
- Create learning resources to be used across the team your are leading
- Be involved from with the product life cycle from idea generation to shipping
- Be the go to authority for frontend software engineering within your team
- Create and maintain reusable component libraries that are used in projects company wide
With this role being in our Defence Business Unit, we will require you to be eligible for Security Clearance meaning you have lived in the UK for the past 5 years continuously. This role will also involve travel to customer sites throughout the UK on a regular cadence.
Who We're Looking For
At Faculty, your attitude and behaviour are just as important as your technical skill. We look for individuals who can support our values, foster our culture, and deliver for our organisation.
To succeed in this role, you'll need demonstrable experience in the following:
- Building scalable, maintainable, and tested web applications in React
- ES6 JavaScript, HTML, CSS3, or related web technologies
- Experience writing TypeScript or other typed languages
- Experience building backend APIs with Node JS
- Data visualisation techniques and implementations, such as d3
- Building and Design systems for use across multiple platforms
- Have exposure to deployment into the Cloud with AWS, GCP or Azure
- Build tools, such as Webpack and Babel
We like people who combine expertise and ambition with optimism -- who are interested in changing the world for the better -- and have the drive and intelligence to make it happen. If you're the right candidate for us, you probably:
- Think scientifically, even if you're not a scientist - you test assumptions, seek evidence and are always looking for opportunities to improve the way we do things
- Love finding new ways to solve old problems - when it comes to your work and your professional development, you don't believe in 'good enough'. You always seek new ways to solve old challenges
- Are pragmatic and outcome-focused - you know how to balance the big picture with the little details and know a great idea is useless if it can't be executed in the real world
- Have experience in working directly with clients and end users to conduct: Requirements Gathering, Technical Planning and Scoping
- Have a drive to learn new technologies and novel applications of existing technologies