Location: Hybrid (2 days in London)

Salary: £70,000 - 90,000 (flexible) + bonus + equity

Play a crucial role in the growth and success of an ambitious, machine learning scale-up with an innovative and unique product.

Every business, charity or institution in the world needs to know who they are doing business with. Xapien helps them answer that question – quickly and accurately.

Our AI-powered automated platform revolutionises background research.

Gathering meaningful and relevant information on who you are engaging with is difficult, expensive and time-consuming. It takes hours of manual work to find, review and analyse the ever-growing volume of data available.

We enable organisations to gain a full picture of who they’re doing business with - in minutes.

Xapien uses deep AI, NLP and machine learning to collate, read and distil vast amounts of online information quickly and comprehensively. In the time it takes to make a coffee.

We are looking for a Lead Front End Engineer to help us build the next generation of search. 

With mentoring responsibility for a team of Designers and Developers, you will lead and empower your team to deliver new features, which will enhance the Xapien platform.

You will also manage and maintain the core technologies that power our application's front end, and constantly look to improve and evolve the day to day operations of the team.

Our front end is built using React and relies on a range of technologies and tooling, such as CSS-in-JS, Jest, Webpack, automated screenshot testing and storybook.

Along with a passion for creating exceptional user experiences, we would like you to have experience of working with the following:

• HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript
• React including hooks
• State management libraries
• Automated interaction testing
• Interaction with RESTful APIs
• A desire to lead
• Git or other source control tools
• Strong communication skills
• Experience working in an agile environment

If you have experience with any of the following, it would be highly advantageous:

• Experience using CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using Storybook to isolate components
• Automated visual tests and/or end-to-end tests, such as Cypress
• Knowledge of design systems
• Experience working with web sockets

What else can we tell you? 

We offer a supportive, flexible and collaborative working environment.  

Top-of-the range kit, flexible working hours and access to any of WeWork’s London offices means you can plan your workday around your own schedule. And we invest in your development with a £1k professional development budget per year. 

We have a hybrid working model. Our team get together in any of the WeWork offices in  Waterloo, Kings Cross and across London at least twice a week. Other days can be working from home or office - it's up to you.  

Here are the full benefits:

• Shares / equity in the business - you will own a stake in what you're working on.
• Regular salary reviews
• Generous bonus plan
• Unlimited holiday
• High-spec Macbook
• Full support in setting up your home-office including a monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad etc.
• Access to WeWork offices across the UK
• Regular team lunches, drinks and activities.  
• Flexible working hours
• Life insurance
• Private Health
• Pension
• £1k annual professional development budget.

If you're keen to join our growing team then we would love to talk to you. Just click through to start the conversation!