Skimlinks, a Connexity and Taboola company, drives e-commerce success for 50% of the Internet’s largest online retailers. We deliver $2B in annual sales by connecting retailers to shoppers on the most desirable retail content channels. As a pioneer in online advertising and campaign technology, Connexity is constantly iterating on products, solving problems for retailers, and building interest in new solutions.

We have recently been acquired by Taboola to make the first Open-Web Source for Publishers connecting editorial content to product recommendations, where readers can easily buy products related to stories they are reading.

We are actively seeking an experienced Senior Front-end Software Engineer to help us advance our technology stack and product development endeavours.

As a Senior Engineer you will be:

Working on features that our customers love with our design and product teams
Focusing on creating elegant, easy to maintain, well tested code
Participate in the early phases of product planning. (highlight potential blockers on the front end side, provide high level estimations and timelines)
Identify refactoring needs and participate in the efforts to address them
Actively participate in the development of our most mission critical products and services
Participate in technical mentoring of the more junior members of the team.
Working alongside highly capable engineers who really enjoy working together and including and supporting new team members in their teams.
Thinking about how can we make things simpler, more intuitive and easier for our customers
Actively seek the betterment of our frontend systems and toolings (tests, documentation, build processes, coding standards, etc.)
Being transparent with the team (up and down) about challenges, failures, and successes.

Requirements

Our front-end team is responsible for our customer-facing interfaces (Publisher Hub), Chrome extension (Editor Tool), and high-performance Javascript deployed on some of the largest Publishers in the world.

In our tech stack, we use the latest technologies, such as React, Next.js, Typescript, Tanstack Cypress.io, Jest, Docker, and Kubernetes, all hosted in Google Cloud.

About You:

High degree of fluency in JavaScript, with knowledge of modern techniques as well as core JS concepts.
Deep understanding of React and it’s ecosystem
Experience with highly performant vanilla Javascript solutions
Solid understanding of TypeScript
Experience integrating with cloud services, and RESTful APIs.
Modern frontend build tooling (Webpack/Parcel, ESlint, Cypress, Jest, Babel, NPM/Yarn)
Proficiency in frontend markup and styling
Interested in writing high quality, robust code involving approaches such as unit testing, code coverage and static code analysis.
Have a product mindset: At Skimlinks we truly believe that feature ideas can come from anywhere

Benefits

Voted “Best Places to Work,” our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, and EU. We offer top benefits including Annual Leave Entitlement, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more!

Healthcare insurance & cash plans
Pension
Parental Leave Policies
Learning & Development Program (educational tool)
Flexible work schedules
Wellness Resources
Equity

We are committed to providing a culture at Connexity that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality, and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we’re all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.

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This position is hybrid (1-2 days / week) and based in our London office.

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