Front end engineer

Maersk is the largest shipping and container logistics company in the world. A $40bn organisation with over 85,000 people, we ship roughly 20% of the world’s container freight. We’re bringing our organisation together to become an integrated container shipping and logistics company, fundamentally re-thinking how we do business. Technology systems are an integral part of this change. We're re-crafting both our customer-facing systems and our data-intensive operational ones, to provide outstanding services and experience to our customers.

As part of this and Adoption and Growth Hacking team has been created to explore opportunities to grow Maersk’s customer numbers, revenue and/or profitability by running data-informed experiments. The team will work across the entire customer lifecycle, collaborating across the business.

We need a Front-End Engineer to work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary-team with skills in Data Science, Data Engineering, Web & Mobile Analytics, UX and Visual Design and Full-Stack Engineering, helping shape product and business decisions to drive growth and digital transformation at one of the largest companies in the world.

This is your opportunity to flex a thirty billion dollar business - and measure your impact.

The role will involve:
- Incorporating your industry knowledge and experience in front end development and tools to Maersk Technology. You will be a champion of industry best-practice within the organisation, advocating for technologies that can improve the way we work.
- You will be adept in writing efficient code, unit & integration tests across all components. While the team will focus on experimentation, contributing to code re-use would be a boon.
- Collaboration with other front-end developers, back end developers, architects, designers, UX experts, external agencies, partners and key people in the business.
- Helping to define technical standards, code quality, application security and contribute to a worldwide UI development community with your expertise.
- Working with development teams to define efficient solutions and implementation strategies to create highly cohesive front-end and back-end development practices.
- You will contribute to Agile teams in the elaboration and definition of user stories as part of feature development.
- Good understanding of application security and basic understanding of IAM.
- Build and deployment of artefacts on Cloud or on-premise servers.
- Drive a DevOps mindset to lead self-managed teams.
- Occasional travelling as needed to Maersk locations to meet and work with development team members based abroad (e.g. Denmark).
- You may be asked to perform out-of-hours support tasks.

We offer

Joining Maersk will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As Front-end Software Engineer, you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as take part in the digitization of the transport and logistics industry.

Incorporating your industry knowledge and experience in web technologies and standards within Maersk. You will be a champion of industry best-practice within the organisation, advocating for technologies that can improve the way we work.

Being part of a passionate agile team, focused on building framework agnostic design system that will be used by multiple digital products developed within Maersk.

You will work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong professional network. We will provide you with opportunities that broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation.

Key responsibilities

- Lead development in implementing efficient applications, with focus on high code quality and performance.
- Contribute towards the architecture of applications.
- Define, drive and lead front end technology development standards adopted by the development teams and external service providers.
- Educating and providing direction to wider development teams on UI engineering.
- Collaborating with scrum masters and project managers to identify and mitigate risks, issues, as well as to find innovative ways to improve the application development.
- Embrace emerging technologies and solutions to ensure our online experience continually evolves to deliver functionality that our customers need.
- Supporting the recruitment of technical team members across the department.

We are looking for

Skills
- Solid written and verbal communication skills and able to articulate technical complexity to be understood by both technical and non-technical personnel.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and conflicting priorities.
- Good critical reasoning and analytical skills; takes ownership and sticks to the problem until it is solved.
- Customer-focused, whether responding to support queries or developing new features and functionality.
- Ability to work independently and with others in a team environment.
- Able to provide constructive feedback and effectively review code, guiding other UI engineers in the right direction

Experience

Essential
- Deep knowledge of front-end development languages, tools and methodologies – HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and associated technologies and toolsets (e.g. jQuery, Sass)
- Hands-on experience of using a front-end development framework, such as Angular, React or Vue. Our preference is Angular, but experience in any of them is a plus.
- Able to write front-end code that is cross-browser and cross-device friendly, through responsive or adaptive techniques is essential.
- Experience of setting, refining and implementing UI standards.
- Experience using Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) systems for development and deployment.
- Experience of IAM for authentication and authorisation.
- The ability to get the best out of technical colleagues as well as business leaders.

Nice to have
- Working with and contributing to open source projects.
- Development and deployments on Cloud.
- Proven knowledge of Behavioural Driven Development (BDD).
- Proven knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD).