Midlevel Frontend Engineer

A Bit About Us...

Please allow us to celebrate our own success for a moment... We've built a customer-centric product that is market-leading, and we are smashing it!

We're a multi-award-winning digital payments and insight platform within the automotive industry. We work with over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers to pay for motoring costs, accessories, and other services through a variety of different payment options. Our purpose is to build a solution that gives drivers peace of mind while enhancing customer experience and assisting with dealer profitability.

Bumper is a fast-growing payments scale-up and we’re excited to continue building on our growth having completed a successful Series B funding round in 2024!

Our Head Office is in Sheffield City Centre, with offices also based in London and Turkey. We've also expanded further, bringing retailers in Ireland, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands on board, with the vision of being the leading automotive payment and insights platform.

A Bit About The Role...

We’re looking for a Midlevel Frontend Engineer to join our passionate and fast-moving Tech Team. You will play a crucial role in developing and improving our frontend applications, contributing to the delivery of high-quality software solutions, whilst ensuring they are user-friendly, accessible and high-performing web applications.

This is a full-time role with at least one day a week working from one of our offices (Sheffield or London – Hammersmith). You’ll report to our Scrum Master and work closely with teams across Bumper to ensure that our frontend applications are seamless.

Day-to-day Responsibilities

• Collaborate with relevant teams to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Working closely with designers to implement UI/UX designs and provide a seamless user experience
• Stay up to date with JavaScript standards
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with performance and scalability in mind
• Staying up-to-date on emerging frontend technologies and best practices to promote continuous improvement in our development processes
• Attend review meetings and make meaningful contributions to maintain code quality and optimise performance

Now a Bit About You…

We are passionate and professional team, and we are looking to welcome a Midlevel Frontend Engineer with a shared interest in our scale-up journey and the aim to embed Bumper as the leading payments and insight platform.

What We Are Looking For In You…

• 3+ years of experience building production-grade frontend applications
• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript
• Strong knowledge of React; experience with Next.js is a major plus
• Solid understanding of CSS and responsive design principles
• Experience using Git for version control
• Focus on performance, accessibility, and user experience
• Strong time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Have great collaboration skills for cross-departmental projects
• Understanding the latest and older browser features
• General E2E and Unit testing experience

Nice to haves...

• Experience working in fintech, payments, e-commerce, or automotive sectors
• Experience with CI/CD, testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library), or design

What You'll Get From Us...

• Competitive Salary
• Company bonus scheme
• Private healthcare with Vitality, and Medicash health cash plan
• We give 26 days holiday + bank holidays, plus volunteer days throughout the year (pro-rated)
• Tax-saving Salary Sacrifice Pension with Aviva
• Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work, Octopus Electric Vehicle, and Nursery fee schemes available!
• For all your well-being and development needs, we give each colleague access to a Wellbeing platform, with an allowance of £250 per year
• Our Bumper Flex policy for better work/life balance
• Annual company-wide Bumper Retreat—a few days of fun, collaboration, and mingling (make sure your passport’s in date!)
• If and when the time comes, we will give 4 months' paid leave to primary carers, and 1 month of paid leave to secondary carers

Perks are nice, but we know perks don’t make up the whole package of a great job. By joining our Bumper team, you'll have the opportunity to be an ambassador for our product & brand, and help us to continue on our winning streak!