Freelance React Engineer

We are looking for an experienced React Engineer to join our Product and Engineering team on an initial three-month contract.

£400 - £500 per day

Oak provides school teachers and pupils with the highest quality curriculum and lesson resources across all subjects and age groups and, in this role, you will be working on our user-facing web applications using Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL and SQL to make our products easy and fun to use.

We work together in product squads alongside designers, researchers and education experts, regularly releasing new features and improvements to give teachers and their pupils quick and easy access to the highest quality learning resources.

Responsibilities

• Development of highly-responsive, accessible web-based user interfaces built using Typescript on Next.js
• Collaborate with wider engineering team to build robust, well-tested products that deliver incredible user experiences
• Write automated tests to ensure well written code that behaves as expected and prevents unwanted regressions
• Work in cross-functional and product oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required
• Provide support for less experienced colleagues

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Proven experience building web-based applications with substantial experience with Typescript and React frameworks (ideally Next.js)
• Good knowledge of SQL and working with Databases
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on digital product development
• Experience in some key supporting technologies: styled components, analytics, cloud functions, cloud infrastructure
• Experience building automated test suites and understanding of the value of different types of testing (e.g. unit vs integration)
• Experience of proposing and implementing technical changes that lead to higher quality products
• Desire to build beautiful, easy-to-use digital products with an understanding of the importance of accessibility in all its forms
• Great communication and collaborative skills

The successful candidate will have a desire to contribute in all areas to ensure Oak is successful. You will be comfortable working at pace, with a range of digital systems (including proprietary ones as required) and you will continuously look at ways that the team can keep getting better. You will be excellent at working as part of a remote team, building relationships and managing your time effectively.

We are aiming to start interviews in early February 2024.

We are experiencing really good responses to our job adverts. This may lead us to closing the role early and so if you are considering applying then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.