Lead Developer in London, UK

Hugo & Cat are looking for a Lead developer with strong development skills, team management and a proven experience of agile product delivery to join our team and share the development of a new-to-market product in the next 2 months.

You should be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of React development, components, best practices and lifecycle methods. A high level knowledge of TypeScript integration, declarations and testing, as well as SASS, ITCSS, BEM, Webpack etc…

Whilst the Hugo & Cat team is entirely located out of our office in London, you will also be working with, and assisting to bring up to speed, the client’s newly established development team remotely.

If you’re excited about fast paced delivery and innovative technology then this is the gig for you.

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Requirements
Skills and Experience
We’re looking for a strong mix of skills, and would expect you to be able to tick most or all of these boxes:

• Proven record of team management, staff mentoring and code/peer reviews.
• Excellent understanding of Agile Scrum methodology, ceremonies, planning and grooming.
• Excellent JavaScript with React and Type Script a must
• Excellent tooling and package management inc Webpack and NPM
• Excellent HTML5, ARIA, SASS/CSS3 experience
• An understanding of responsive design techniques for mobile, tablet and beyond
• An appreciation of business requirements and usability principles
• A good eye for design and a real passion for interaction design
• Excellent attention to detail
• Must be personable, friendly and work well in a team
• Enthusiastic about the web and emerging web technologies

If you think you’d be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. Note that you may be required to undergo a technical test as part of the recruitment process. We appreciate client confidentiality, however if you can include examples of your work such as live client projects you’ve worked on and any personal projects on GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket that would really help.

About Hugo and Cat
We are a brand engagement agency creating experiences that build future-proof customer relationships for our clients. Strategically led, creatively driven and technologically passionate, as a growing group of planners, writers, designers, coders, motion artists and more, we work closely together towards one goal: delivering impactful work that has the power to transform brands.

We work with global brands who want to use digital to give every customer a great experience. Our combination of strategy, storytelling and experience design allows us to deliver real impact. Our clients include Sony, F&F, Tourism Ireland, Thomas Cook Money, Stanley Black & Decker and E.ON.

We do big agency work with a small agency culture. There are 50 of us in the team in the UK and USA, and we are ambitious, sociable, collaborative, transparent and non-hierarchical. We are part of the FutureBrand family and the IPG network.
Hugo & Cat is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a fair assessment of applications and employment opportunities to all regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, or varying backgrounds.

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range? (USD)
$250-350 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

Twine can guarantee 3 relevant freelancers for an upfront fee of $650/£500. Would you like to know more?
No

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
4-5

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Does the freelancer need insurance?
Yes

Where did you find Twine?
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