Senior Javascript Engineer - Enterprise

We’re Atom bank

The bank that’s leading the fintech charge!

We’re not like the rest. We’re true innovators, and we’re redefining what a bank should be. Ours is a bank for today and the future, a mobile-first bank. Forget the stuffy branches, with Atom you can bank whenever, wherever, faster, and simpler.

Could you be the next innovator to join us?

What will your ‘typical’ day look like? Different that’s for sure…:

Technology is at the heart of the business, and we have a world-leading Technology stack that enables us to offer the most efficient, user-friendly app-based bank. The Technology team has end to end responsibility for all aspects of our Technology, from architecting the future, engineering solutions, to deploying and managing our technology services.

As a Senior JavaScript Engineer specialising in frontend web technologies, you’ll help deliver and maintain the Atom web estate, consisting of both internal and external applications. The web platform and its surrounding technologies are a fundamental part of Atom’s digital banking solution and harnessing cutting-edge web technologies, to provide industry leading web solutions that are performant, accessible and deliver an exceptional user experience.

In this role you’ll service our public & internal web applications working directly with stakeholders and integrating these directly with Atom’s core-banking platform. You’ll participate in delivery meetings and provide progress updates, task sizing and communicate blockers. This role will provide mentorship opportunities with junior team members, where you’ll support the Lead in fostering a culture of engineering excellence, focusing on performance, accessibility, scalability and security.

You will:

• Demonstrate great testing standards to support safe delivery to production.
• Help identify best practices and coding standards within the Web discipline and help monitor those of less experienced engineers.
• Take ownership of multiple features and bug fixes across the estate and lead on larger items of work that impact multiple value streams.
• Where agreed, contribute to process refinement relating to the discipline estate.
• Be a key point of contact for public website releases.
• Demonstrate good testing standards to support safe delivery to production.
• Work closely with the design and UX teams to implement styles in line with Atom’s design system.
• Be available as a point of escalation for major incident investigation and resolution within the web estate.
• Where agreed, participate in out of hours support.

What do we need from you?

• A deep understanding of web technologies including JavaScript & React, and proficiency in concepts like state management, performance optimisation, and accessibility.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and Cloud services (GCP, Azure)
• Strong knowledge of CSS and its frameworks e.g. Tailwind
• Ability to lead technical discussions
• Knowledge of static site generators e.g. Astro & Gatsby
• Experience of Content Management Systems e.g. Contentstack/Contentful
• Experience integrating with APIs using a REST architectural style
• A passion for delivering exceptional, industry leading software
• Working knowledge of best practices/standards in website development
• An understanding of secure computing standards and processes
• A broader knowledge of full stack development and the software development lifecycle

What you’ll get from us:

• Salary £50k - £60k
• Flexible Hybrid & Remote working
• 4-day work week
• Annual Share Option – performance-related
• Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input – you can put in more)
• ‘All About Me’ fund: £200 per year to spend on personal development.
• 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan & Life Insurance
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Electric Vehicle Scheme

PLEASE NOTE: You must have the legal right to work in the UK to apply for this role as Atom is unable to support Visa Applications/Sponsorship

Atom is an equal opportunities employer. We value you as an individual and therefore disregard race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, age, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership and disability in any hiring decisions we make. Atom will always adhere to the Equality Act 2010.

All roles within Atom must adhere to the Conduct Rules as set out by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

As part of Atom bank’s commitment to the FCA’s Consumer Duty, Atom will, take all reasonable steps to avoid causing foreseeable harm to customers, take all reasonable steps to enable customers to pursue their financial objectives and act in good faith.