Bede builds market-leading gambling entertainment experiences, and great front-end engineering plays a huge part in how our products feel, perform and scale.
We’re looking for a Front-end leaning Software Engineer to join our Experience Tribe in Newcastle. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building high-quality, user-facing features, cares about clean and reusable code, and wants to work closely with product and other engineers to bring ideas to life.
What you'll be doing
- Building and evolving user-facing features using modern frontend technologies
- Writing clean, reusable and scalable code that stands the test of time
- Working closely with Product and other engineers to ensure designs are technically feasible and well-implemented
- Optimising applications for performance, responsiveness and scalability
- Contributing to documentation and shared knowledge, helping the whole team move faster
- Taking part in Scrum ceremonies and collaborating openly within your team
- Reviewing code, sharing feedback and supporting high engineering standards
- Debugging and problem-solving across frontend applications
What we are looking for
- Strong experience with HTML, CSS (including SASS) and JavaScript
- Experience working with JavaScript frameworks, ideally React Native with TypeScript
- Comfortable consuming RESTful APIs and working with JSON
- Confident building responsive, mobile-first web applications
- Experience with asset build tools and frontend tooling
- Solid understanding of Git and version control workflows
- A good grasp of accessibility, web standards and UX best practices
- Experience reviewing code and sharing knowledge with others
- A practical, problem-solving mindset and the ability to debug effectively
- Happy working independently on tasks while also collaborating as part of a team
What we can offer you
Here at Bede, we offer a great benefits package and a competitive salary as you would expect from a forward-thinking and people-centric organisation. What sets us apart is our desire to look after our people in the best way we can and to ensure we are offering the best to our colleagues by asking for feedback, so you’ll be pleased to know our benefits package is always being reviewed.
- A friendly, flexible and trust-based approach to working
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and a typically very generous Christmas break
- The use of a mobile phone or tablet of your choice, with the monthly contract covered by us
- ‘Select Enhanced’ Bupa private healthcare – access from day 1 which covers all pre-existing conditions
- Fully matched private pension scheme (up to 8% matched)
- Life Assurance which pays out x4 of your salary to a nominated person(s)
- Employee Assistance Programme – Beders have access to support and practical advice on a variety of issues that might impact their life (provided by Bupa)
- Innovation time – Engineers have regular opportunities to spend time developing skills and innovating.
- A great office life! Free snacks and refreshments in the office every day as well as regular food van visits from the best places in Newcastle
- Access to Calm – the #1 app for meditation and sleep
- Lots of social events – inside and outside of the working day
- Referral Programme – help us grow our team with talented individuals and be rewarded with a referral payment of £3,000 (pre-tax)
- Bede swag – from Zoodies to t-shirts and even our much loved Bede socks!
- Bede Holidays – extra discretionary days off through the year as an extra special thank you