Zoro - Junior Full Stack Developer - London

Company Description:

Zoro UK Limited, located in London & Leicester, United Kingdom, falls under the Grainger group (NYSE: GWW), a global industrial supplier with headquarters in Lake Forest, USA. Zoro UK’s focus is to expand Grainger’s UK industrial supplier business both through organic and inorganic growth across online channel. Zoro UK Limited was launched as a UK online business in 2017. We are looking for a Full Stack JavaScript Developer to be located in London.

Working for Zoro UK means working within a start-up culture but with the backing of an established global player within the MRO market. We aspire fast growth; we seek new ideas to succeed and disrupt the market; we solve problems and seek out new ones; and we seek individuals who are comfortable with ambiguity.

We’re Looking for Someone Who:

• Enjoys creating simple, effective, efficient, performant and clean code to power new product features, as well as refactoring and improving existing code
• Is comfortable collaborating on the design and user experience
• Cares about shipping high quality products
• Can take ideas and run with them
• Good understanding of agile development and continuous integration/continuous delivery
• Has experience of building the infrastructure that quickly identifies and surfaces production issues that impact their users

Roles & Responsibilities

• You will design, implement (code + automation tests) Front End & Back End parts of the application
• You will collaborate with the product owner to define software requirements for programming effort.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

Essential Skills

• Good understanding of functional and reactive programming
• Experience with React, Redux, frontend frameworks
• Experience with NoSQL DBs, particularly Mongo, Elastic Search
• Experience with CSS and other web styling approaches (Sass, CSS modules, Styled Components)
• Experience with NodeJS, server-side software development (Rest Api and Graphql)
• Good understanding of agile software development methodologies
• Good understanding of software lifecycle from planning, through implementation, QA, CI to deployment strategies.

Desirable Skills:

• Good understanding of functional and reactive programming
• Experience with React,NextJs, frontend frameworks
• Experience with NoSQL DBs, particularly Mongo
• Experience with CSS and other web styling approaches (Sass, CSS modules, Styled Components)
• Experience with NodeJS, server-side software development(Rest Api and Graphql)
• Good understanding of agile software development methodologies
• Good understanding of software lifecycle from planning, through implementation, QA, CI to deployment strategies.

Work Environment & Tech Stack:

Work Environment

• You will report to and be supported by our highly experienced Technical Lead.
• You’ll sometimes be expected to travel, as needed both domestically and internationally
• Collaborates closely with other members of the Zoro team and Grainger companies.

Our Tech Stack

Our tech stack includes Node.js, React, Redux, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, ElasticSearch, AWS Lambda, BigQuery, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes and more.

ADDITIONAL INFO

During the COVID-19 pandemic this role is allowed to work remotely, the successful candidate must be able to commute to the office in central London (120 Moorgate) as and when required when Zoro gradually moves to a fluid working arrangement of home and office working.

The salary for this role is £35,000-£40,000 per annum with a 10% annual bonus payable subject to the company achieving its KPIs.

The working hours are 37.5 per week between Monday and Friday between 09:00-17:30 with a 1 hour break for lunch.

Zoro's company benefits include (after probation):

- Attractive company sick pay.

- Cycle to Work and Tech Scheme.

- 25 days of annual leave & 8 public holidays (+ buy back scheme of up to 5 days).

- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.

- Medical, personal accident, life and income protection insurance are all included.

- Brilliant pension contribution (8% from Zoro UK!).

- Company quarterly, book club, inclusion and social events.

- Free teas, coffees, soft drinks, biscuits in the offices.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £35,000.00-£40,000.00 per year