Front End Angular Developer

Front End Angular Developers are required to join our Engineering Team to work on some of the world's largest, high scale eCommerce platforms and online customer journeys in our offices in Portugal (Lisbon and Porto). If you're looking to relocate to Portugal we can help out with visa and relocation; this would be a great opportunity due to continued growth and our ever expanding capabilities in Portugal. This is a really exciting time to join us and work with some of the worlds’ best known brands and retailers such as Bosch, DFS, Johnson & Johnson, MAC, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell, Specialized, Tempur and Tiffany & Co.

**What we want from you**:

- Solid understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks in particular Angular
- Expert in web mark-up, including HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
- Solid understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS (we like SASS)
- Good understanding of Rest APIs
- Commercial experience working on SPA solutions, ideally within e-commerce
- Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization, accessibility, and usability.
- Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.
- Experience of using Git version control in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
- Great attitude, strong work ethic, excellent communication skills
- Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the customer (show and tells/requirement analysis sessions/retrospectives etc)
- Experience of graphics packages, primarily Photoshop, Sketch, Invision, Zeplin
- Experience using JavaScript task runner tooling ie Grunt/webpack
- Experience using Unit Testing Frameworks such as Jest, enzyme and react-test-library

**If you know some of this even better**
- Experience in building rapid prototypes
- Solid information, interaction, and visual design skills
- Experience creating site architecture diagrams, wireframes, process flows
- Experience in building design systems/Atomic Design methodology
- Knowledge of other JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as Node, Vue, NextJS
- Commercial experience of TypeScript
- Experience in implementing TDD/BDD methodology
- Good understanding of SEO principles including web analytics
- Commercial eCommerce platform experience - Magento/Hybris/IBM WebSphere/Shopify
- Experience in contributing to the architecture of SPA eCommerce solutions
- Experience of working on Java projects would be extremely advantageous
- Experience with Commercial Content Management Platform such as AEM
- Experience of mentoring junior members of the team

**Wunderman Thompson Commerce** inspire people to shop online through digital solutions, driving growth for world-leading brands and retailers.

**How?** We create, support, and improve digital shopper journeys, across leading channels including retailers, direct-to-consumer (D2C), marketplaces (Amazon and beyond), and social channels. And we work with some of the biggest and most exciting brands around, such as Calvin Klein, MAC, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell, Tiffany & Co. and Tommy Hilfiger.

Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, Wunderman Thompson Commerce are unique in our ability to connect world-class strategic thinking and creative insight with deep executional capability across technology and operations. Together, this enables us to deliver winning commerce solutions across all major digital routes to market worldwide.

We’re part of WPP, a creative transformation company who use the power of creativity to build better futures for people, planet, clients and communities and is recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Commerce Services.

**Tell me more** We are a diverse team of 1700+ commerce experts across more than 20 offices worldwide, including state-of-the-art offices in Watford, Central London and an eCommerce Centre of Excellence in Lisbon. We believe that growth through commerce begins with connected customer experiences that amplify the brand and drive business outcomes. We excel at orchestrating commerce touchpoints through intelligent deployment and integration of world class technology from strategic partners like Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, BigCommerce and commerce tools, as well as driving sales from marketplaces and retailers. We have recently expanded our capabilities to include NN4M, specialists in Mobile Commerce and Satalia, experts in Artificial Intelligence.

Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business - people who are inspired, energetic and straight-talking, and who really want to understand both our clients and their customers. We are happiest when we are innovating and shaping the future of commerce. We live and breathe our values and take pride in what our people achieve, empowering and respecting every one