Job Description

Company Description
F1000 Research is an innovative open research publisher of scientific, scholarly, translational and clinical research across the physical and life sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities and the social sciences. The F1000 Research publishing system combines the ability to publish rapidly with functionality to ensure transparency, robustness and reproducibility of research. The publishing model combines the benefits of ‘pre-printing’ (providing rapid publication) with quality and transparency (open data and open peer review) and enables publication within days of submission, followed by open invited peer review. Taylor & Francis Group produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential. Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.


We have an exciting opportunity to add a seasoned Front End Dev Specialist who will work closely with our F1000 Research Product Development team. You will be responsible for improvements to our core platform infrastructure. You will drive adoption of best-in-class tools, open-source frameworks, etc. and will work with Product Managers to develop frameworks that ensure the customer/user journeys are simple, predictable, and consistent.
What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the Digital Product Engineering team with full accountability of delivery, starting from technical ideation / design to implementation and rollouts.
• Standardisation of the tools & frameworks used in our software product delivery.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders – Product Managers, API & Backend Development team, UI designers.
• Conducting and reviewing key design reviews (against principles and standards) and leads remediation as appropriate.
• Good eye for optimisation and Improve performance
• Using new and innovative technologies to create effective, elegant, and scalable solutions

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of hands on React experience and able to work with redux and react sagas
• Strong functional programming skills & expertise in JavaScript; specifically, ES6
• Hand-on with Typescript & Node JS development.
• Exposure to package managers like NPM or Yarn, task runner like Gulp and module loader/bundler like web-pack.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring other developers.
• Experience in TDD with Understanding of design patterns.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving with the mental acuity to solve end-to-end problems.
• Comfortable working autonomously and has previously demonstrated a strong level of comfort in driving projects forward but is equally a team player.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• Experience of PHP and WordPress.
• Knowledge of AWS Kubernetes and Docker would be a huge advantage.

Additional Information

• 24 days annual leave
• Volunteering days annually
• Day off for your birthday
• Pension contributions
• Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development
• Blended style and flexi working time
• Right tools for remote working

At Taylor & Francis we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. You must have right to work and live in India We would like to thank all applicants in advance and regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.