Frontend Engineer 

About us

Are you looking to join a talented, hardworking, diverse team, focused on a life-changing mission, at one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech startups? If yes, then you are in the right place!

At Elder, we are reinventing what it means to age. We have started with a care marketplace which connects older people, families and carers to enable 1:1 personalised care at home. Our technology platform CareOS is at the core of the Elder experience allowing a personal, transparent and flexible care experience for all. Since its launch in 2016, more than 11 million hours of care have been delivered through Elder in over 500 towns and cities across the UK.

We’ve been fortunate to receive awards including the Sunday Times TechTrack fastest growing UK companies, Deloitte Fast50 and Care Company of the Year at the HealthInvestor 2022 & 2023 Awards while also covered by the BBC, Financial Times and The Guardian.

We are still in the very early stages of our mission and potential impact and looking for talented people to join us in delivering it that share our values of seeking excellence, together and for our society. What also matters to us? Well, it matters that you’re unique. It matters that you’re great at what you do, and that you put in the hard work. And, obviously, it matters that you care as much as we do.

About the role

The role of the technology team at Elder is to set Elder apart from the rest - our platform is the engine that powers the rest of the business. We build web applications that connect families and carers with each other and Elder. We use data, algorithms, and machine learning to find the right carer to look after each of our customers. In 2024, we’ll continue our journey towards becoming the UK’s leading live-in care provider and do even more to deliver a best-in-class service.

We’re currently looking for a talented front-end engineer to join the team. You’ll be a part of our larger engineering team, working with other front-end and back-end developers to develop new functionality across Elder’s web portals used by the families that we look after and carers who work with us. We use React, Next.js and Typescript across our platforms and primarily communicate with our backend systems over REST.

We encourage collaboration and our engineers are involved in the full development lifecycle, from the brainstorming of what’s possible to see how the products are being used by our end users. This is a great opportunity for a web developer who is keen to build products with modern technologies, understands the importance and impact of design on the user experience, and wants to do more than just work off fully-formed tickets.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Working closely with product managers, UX designers, and the wider team to shape technology-powered solutions

• Close collaboration within the front-end engineering team, in code reviews, pair programming, knowledge-sharing sessions and other activities to maintain best practices and consistency across the platform

• Maintaining a robust design system to ensure consistency and quality across our platforms

• Confidently building and using design components, contributing to a reusable and scalable component library

• Ensuring responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility are upheld across all applications

• Implementing, testing, and releasing new functionality across Elder’s web applications

• Collaborating with back-end engineers in building new APIs and data contracts to support new functionality

Requirements

• Strong familiarity with the JavaScript ecosystem, TypeScript, and modern web technologies

• Experience building Single Page Applications with React

• Experience working with Next.js

• Proficiency in HTML and CSS

• Experience building and maintaining design systems and component libraries

• Experience with design tools such as Figma, Sketch or similar

• Solid understanding of responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility

• An active interest in staying up-to-date with new technology, new frameworks, new languages and other developments

• A passion for working collaboratively to solve meaningful real-world problems with technology, not just writing code!

• Nice to have: Experience with react-query, Playwright, Capacitor or CircleCI

We’re a service business and we know that without the best people, we cannot build the best company, which is why we treat our team very well. We can offer:

• Competitive Salary + Bonus

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + (1 extra day of holiday per year worked for first 5 years) (pro rota)

• 6 weeks work from anywhere in the world

• Dental and health insurance

• Hybrid working (1 day per week in our London office, Wednesday)

• E-learning platform (Udemy)

• Sponsored quarterly team and company socials

• Mentoring and coaching programmes to help you achieve your personal and career goals

• Macbook + any particular extras you require

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• AND a genuine opportunity to be a very key part of a high-growth business

Do something you genuinely care about. Join a diverse team of skilled, passionate and progressive people who like to get on with each other. Work at one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups. Apply today.

Elder recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status.