Front End Architect

As organisations continue to change, we will help them to make intelligent decisions and consolidate technologies, processes and data through clarity and innovation; making their tech universe a simpler place to understand, manage and traverse. Driven and developed by our community of 150+ passionate people united by one overall mission... to Architect our Clients' Digital Future. We do this with a company culture that is client-centric to its core, and ruthlessly focused on delivering technology innovation that will accelerate our customers' success. We are working to build this centre of excellence by building an amazing place to work, learn and develop for our people.

Frontend Architect

We are looking for an experienced Frontend Architect to join our Architecture Squad, working out of a regional R&D hub in Poland. Together with your squad, you will provide technical leadership and innovation for our flagship multitenant enterprise SaaS platform, OrbusINFINITY. This will involve communicating a shared technical and architectural vision, helping to nurture and guide squads to navigate and understand new technology choices.

Our SaaS platform runs natively in Microsoft Azure, across a tech stack utilizing C# .Net 6, React, Typescript, CosmosDB, SQL, Containers and Kubernetes. This uses a Micro-frontend and Microservice architecture, continuously deployed to a multiregional highly available infrastructure. Public REST APIs make our platform the hub for numerous integrations to external services and applications.

As a Frontend Architect we need you to own, manage and guard the frontend standards. You will be engaging with Product Managers, UX and engineers from various Tribes early in the problem discovery phases of product development, to provide input on potential solutions, their feasibility, and their architectural design. This involves understanding the business problems and guiding teams with researching technologies to provide a best-in-class solution to customers. Additionally, you will be involved in ongoing R&D and proof of concept work, investigating new technologies and integrations that could enhance our application and solve problems in better and more competitive means. For that, we need you to get your hands dirty with coding frequently, not only on your own, but also regularly helping teams with more advanced problems or considerations. It is essential that the right candidate for this role can independently assess a wide range of technical options for a given problem and apply the appropriate amount of time to each in order to articulate feasible solutions and the reasoning behind them.

We operate Scrum or Kanban for day-to-day development activities, wrapped with quarterly strategic planning to set the vision and goals for the coming quarter. Although experience of working in scaled agile environments is not required, it would be an advantage. We follow leading development practices, incorporating TDD, automated CI/CD, a "shift-left" testing mindset and a focus on producing S.O.L.I.D maintainable code that can be released quickly and to a high quality. To assist with this, we have a comprehensive DevOps process with dedicated teams responsible for assisting squads with build and release processes using Azure DevOps, Git and Azure. We have various Communities of Practice (Guilds) covering such areas as architecture, quality, agile practices, and DevOps, which you will be involved with.

Our projects use cutting edge technology, and as such we encourage our engineers to stay ahead of current trends and best practices. Ideally, we'd like a candidate that reflects this, with a keen interest in emerging trends and technologies. This could include keeping up to date on blogs and technology news sites, contributing to the web community, or testing out the newest frameworks in your own time. As a Frontend Architect, we expect that this is implicit in how you operate and that you are confident collaborating within a team, and knowledge sharing as required. We have regular cross skillset and cross portfolio knowledge sharing events (Brown Bag Lunches), so would like a candidate that can be actively involved in these as well. If this sounds like you then we'd love to receive your CV.

The role is fully remote, with up to 2 days a month required to come into the office space along with the rest of the team to get some face time both in the office and socially. There are also in-person quarterly events that all squads across the department and all regions gather for, which helps us align and bond to make a great development team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Setting/adjusting frontend standards and guidelines
• Adhering to existing coding standards and practices, and working with other technical leads to continuously improve these
• Guiding technical solutions in line with the wider application architecture
• Overseeing the frontend code base and helping developers to keep it in shape
• Working with multiple React, Micro-frontend web applications
• Working with squads to guide S.O.L.I.D solutions to customer challenges
• Developing reusable platform enablers for core capabilities
• Researching optimisations and technologies that can further the platform and empower squads
• Progressing frontend testing strategy together with Testing Solutions squad
• Working with C#, .Net Core in an Azure Microservice environment
• Maintaining a culture of high-quality code and best practice
• Attending squad meetings such as daily Stand-ups and technical discussions
• Partaking in and leading presentations and code workshops
• Sharing your expertise and findings with your squad and other tribes through discussions and documentation
• Work with UX to provide ways to make the UX vision materialise

Essential:

• Significant experience in frontend coding for enterprise (8 years minimum, including 4+ years in React)
• React, Typescript, micro frontend architecture
• Experience developing large scale enterprise cloud products (4 years minimum, preferably Microsoft Azure)
• Azure native technologies (i.e. App Services, Functions etc.)
• Strong experience with R&D/Proof of Concept (POC) assignments, and the articulation of the results back to peers
• Experience of documenting standards and then supervising / ensuring teams adhere to them
• Integration and Unit Test experience supporting regular production releases
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and S.O.L.I.D principles
• Experience of mentoring and guiding multi-discipline engineers on technology best practices
• Strong communication skills, including ability to convert technical concept to non-technical people with ease.

Desirable:

• Strong Agile understanding
• Confidence with git and branching strategies, versioning, dependency management
• Domain Driven Design principles
• Understanding of adapting application architecture to support automated testing and CI/CD processes
• Containers, Kubernetes

Orbus Tech Stack/Environment:

• Development for modern browsers
• React, Typescript, HTML, SASS
• .NET 6 / C#
• SQL Server (T-SQL), CosmosDB
• MSTEST v2, XUnit, Mock, NSubstitute, Jest, Selenium, Playwright
• Azure DevOps with Git, and CI/CD pipelines in YAML
• IAC (ARM, Bicep, Helm, Terraform)
• Containers, Kubernetes
• Azure native technologies (i.e. App Services, Functions etc.)

What's in it for you

• A massive opportunity for you to develop your skills and knowledge in a supportive environment that thrives on growth and change.
• Competitive salary and benefits (in line with experience)
• Individual performance bonus
• Hybrid working model, 3 days in our Katowice Office and 2 daysat home
• Curious, open culture, with teams collaborating across geographies

Living our Values at Orbus

Trust: We build trust across our people, customers and partners through honesty, transparency and communication.

Empowerment: We empower our customers and our people with growth, development and experience

Clarity: We provide clarity and sense of purpose, focused on helping everyone achieve success and forging a clear vision of the future

Harmony: We work as one team, collaborating closely so we can sustainably change and grow

Find your place at Orbus- We're a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a sense of belonging allowing all of our people to bring their whole selves to work every day.

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