Frontend Engineer (React)

Location: London, GB; hybrid working

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in theatrical content distribution, delivering digital products and electronic content services for cinemas and audiences.

What you will do

• Own the frontend domain and design, develop, and evolve scalable, maintainable React applications.
• Design and scale a modular React application to replace the legacy MarionetteJS system.
• Build efficient, testable, reusable components and responsive client-side experiences from UX specifications.
• Configure frontend tooling and build pipelines for code splitting, tree shaking, reuse, and performance.
• Consume complex API payloads from the PHP team with local caching and asynchronous state logic.
• Own frontend solution architecture, quality standards, security, scalability, technical documentation, and code-level leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of React development experience, with expertise in React, component lifecycles, advanced state management, and browser DOM rendering.
• Expertise in design implementation using HTML, CSS, and Tailwind; understanding of semantic layouts.
• Proficiency in Git and solid understanding of Figma, SOLID principles, design patterns, and modern React architecture patterns.
• Excellent TDD and BDD skills and strong understanding of Clean Code and SOLID.
• Familiarity with prototyping, MVP development, software project lifecycles including Waterfall and Agile, application security, and scalability.
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, planning, organisational, prioritisation, and multitasking skills.
• Ability to solve and communicate complex problems and produce technical specifications and documentation.
• Understanding of electronic content delivery and hard drive replication in theatrical distribution, plus proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially advanced Excel.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the latest and emerging technologies used in enterprise-wide quality solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and remote working arrangements are available for the role.
• 25 days of annual leave, enhanced parental leave, and enhanced sick leave.
• EOT tax-free bonus, retention recognition perks, increased employer pension, and private medical care at key milestones.
• Birthday or work anniversary day off, cinema perks including premieres and special screenings, rental housing deposit support, and a volunteering day off.
• Collaborative, inclusive, customer-centric environment with emphasis on clear communication, reliability, adaptability, and detail.