Senior Frontend Developer

At Reach Industries, we believe that scientists are solving some of the world's most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to developing vaccines and new treatments for diseases yet their tools are still poor. Our AI powered software platform, Lumi, automates operational data capture, insights and processes in labs, augmenting scientists so they can focus on the more creative aspects of their work. Lumi is versatile and is being applied across a wide range of life science industries, including in biotech and pharma.

We are a startup where the early team have a strong background in various frontier technologies and a deep love for making science better. We’ve already shipped a first version of the Lumi platform and we’ve received excellent feedback from early customers. We have very ambitious plans for Lumi ahead, so now we’re looking for a Senior Frontend Developer to become part of our core product team, playing a crucial role in implementing, optimising, and maintaining our front-end codebase to ensure an intuitive, efficient, and seamless interface for our scientific users.

Your impact

• As a Senior Frontend Developer at Reach Industries, you will play a crucial role in producing user interfaces for our computer vision powered, web-based products. Working with people throughout the business, your team will transform unique requirements into impressive user experiences. Being requirements led, you will draw from your existing confidence in frontend web development and research new technologies in order to output bespoke, best-in-class solutions. You should have a strong professional background in React, Typescript, industry standard UI libraries and Git along with familiarity with UX tools and web graphics libraries.
• Work with your team and the rest of the business to convert requirements into well designed, maintainable Next Js and Typescript code.
• Implement data visualisation components and interactive features for displaying complex datasets.
• Integrate video streaming capabilities and leverage webRTC for real-time communication.
• Utilise websockets for efficient and seamless real-time data exchange.
• Integrate external APIs to fetch and display dynamic content within the frontend applications.
• Ensure code quality through code reviews, testing, and debugging.
• Optimise frontend performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.
• Collaborate with the backend team to define and implement API contracts.
• Stay updated with the latest frontend trends, frameworks, and best practices.

Your experience

• Minimum of 4 years of experience as a Frontend Developer, with a strong focus on web technologies.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, Next Js, Git, VSCode, and Figma (or similar UX tools).
• Experience with the use and configuration of modern UI libraries such as ChakraUI, TailwindCSS, MUI
• Experience in developing data visualisation or graphical web applications with tools such as D3, Chartly, Three Js,HTML Canvas API etc.
• A technical understanding of the challenges and principals involved in developing mobile-first web applications.
• Understanding of real-time client-server communication and video streaming using tools such as websockets or webRTC
• Knowledge of API integration and working with RESTful APIs.
• Confidence in component composition, project structure and code quality reflecting industry standards such as DRY, SRP, SOLID.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote and collaborative team environment.

Benefits

• Salary of £60k-£75k
• Stock Options We want our team to be a part of our success and offer all permanent team members stock options
• Holiday 27 days + Bank Holidays + Birthday off + Company closure between Christmas and New Year
• Pension Contribution 8% from us and 1% from our employees
• Flexible working with an 8am-10am start and 4-6pm finish
• Enhanced Maternity Leave Available to employees with 6+ months tenure, Reach Industries pays 100% of your salary for the first 26 weeks of your maternity leave. The next 13 weeks is paid at 50% of your base salary
• Growth & Development Allocated annual budget for conferences, training courses and other materials
• Hybrid working, with 1 day per week in our Bristol HQ!

A little more about Reach Industries

• We thrive on being different, we encourage, support and celebrate diversity in the workplace and in all aspects of life. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer who strives to ensure a balanced and measured approach to all aspects of employment. The decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on individual competence, performance, merit and business needs.


• In a Post COVID-19 world, the increase in productivity and efficiency that our products will offer those at the forefront of humanity’s greatest challenges has become even more important and as you join us in building this company, we want this to be the best place you've ever worked; a fun environment where you will positively influence the culture and have the freedom and confidence to do your best work with the respect and trust of your colleagues.

£60,000 - £75,000 a year

Our "remote-first hybrid" approach emphasizes the flexibility and autonomy of remote work, allowing our team to maintain a healthy work-life balance. However, the collaborative nature of our projects occasionally necessitates in-person interactions, especially for tasks that benefit from face-to-face communication or aren't as effective over virtual platforms. As such, while a significant portion of your work will be remote, expect to be present at our Bristol office around once a week or more frequently during key project phases. Additionally, due to the logistical and legal considerations of our hiring process, all applicants must possess the unequivocal legal right to work in the UK without the need for visa sponsorship.

Polite Recruiter Note: We currently do not wish to work with any external recruiters or agencies, please do not contact us at this stage as it will jeopardise any opportunity of working together in the future.