JavaScript Job: Front End Engineer

Who we are

PwC’s Central Technology team (‘Tech Connect’) is responsible for identifying and deploying innovative machine learning use cases for PwC and its clients. Working across the health, financial services, and professional services industries, we use machine learning and natural language processing to build data-driven solutions which solve important problems.

We’re currently looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer who can lead and coach others to join us across one of our Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, or London offices.

What we do

Software Engineers in our team work on a range of products, for example:

• A risk and regulation application that helps subject matter experts (e.g. Risk, Auditing) to efficiently profile and analyse large amounts of data on an engagement

• A natural language processing platform that accelerates and expands our ability to search large document sets for business insights

• A real-time health and wellbeing platform to help employees understand and manage their body and mind

The Role

• Responsibility for the end-to-end development of high end UIs for our applications

• Designing, implementing, and reviewing high quality, maintainable code

• Coaching and managing junior engineers on workstreams, including the tools and practices that we use

• Working with experienced Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Managers to understand and develop our products

Core Skills

• Fluency in implementing responsive, cross-browser UIs using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript

• Proficiency with UI frameworks (many of our applications use React.js)

• Experience working with JavaScript testing frameworks

• Experience with optimising web performance of front end applications

Nice-to-haves

• Practical knowledge of server-side JavaScript (for example, Node.js)

• Experience with web analytics frameworks (such as getanalytics)

• Exposure to other programming languages (for example, we use Python and Go on our backend)

• Experience with other UI frameworks (such as Angular.js or Vue.js)

Process

For technical roles, we ask applicants to submit a short test related to the core skills above prior to the first interview and if successful will look to discuss the tests further.

Not the role for you?
Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work (ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

www.pwc.com/uk/diversity