Front-end Web Developer

Front-end Web Developer
Department: Product & Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Texas
Description
Why LBR?
An amazing market position, enviable growth, collaboration and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to further your career with Law Business Research. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, agility, and respect in everything we do.
Law Business Research has been selected as a winner for the 2024 Inspiring Workplaces Awards. We're proud of our inclusive and inspiring culture here at LBR and we remain committed to creating a positive workplace for all our employees
We are happy to share that we have partnered with Business Disability Forum to help us on our journey to becoming a more inclusive employer and achieving Level 2 Disability Confident Accreditation.
We also take our place in this world of ours very seriously and engage in a wide variety of charitable and community based initiatives. We work extensively with Swawou School in Sierra Leone, which we established to provide education for 120 girls, and on an ongoing basis we underwrite the school's costs.
'We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.'
Key Responsibilities
As a Developer at LBR, your primary responsibility is developing and improving the company's digital product portfolio. You will also support other team members with technical challenges, continuing to strengthen your technical skills and keeping aware of new technologies. Developers should also flag any threats to LBRs digital product portfolio for internal and external systems that they become aware of.
Implementation

• Work, as part of your team, with the software and product teams to deliver the software
  roadmap to develop and constantly improve the customer facing products.
• Continuous improvement for web development
• Quality, security and performance of the codebase
• Work within the company's processes and support company initiatives
• Support your manager and Senior Developers to define technical deliverables for roadmap work
• Technical implementation of sprint objectives
• Provide broad brush estimates for roadmap planning and finer-grained estimates for sprint planning

Operational

• Help to resolve issues with applications in a timely manner

Security

• Keep bugs and known security vulnerabilities to a minimum

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Understand the principles of developing reliable software that can scale to business needs
• Self-motivated and driven
• Excellent time management skills
• Good self-organizational skills
• At least two years of experience in a software development role
• Experience working within an Agile software development environment
• Strong IT knowledge and ability to solve complex technical problems
• Good business and process analysis skills
• Knowledge of best practice development principles
• Ability to prioritize work and to escalate where necessary
• Capable of developing good relationships with product managers and stakeholders
• Ability to work calmly under pressure
• Clear communicator
• Demonstrates initiative and resourcefulness
• Address any issues with a positive attitude
• IT knowledge and ability to use Visual Studio, VS Code, Jira, Confluence

Tech skills

• C# .Net (Core + Framework) & Asp.Net
• Typescript & React
• TSQL
• Elasticsearch
• Containers
• Azure devops

Benefits
Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer a wide range of benefits to help ensure that all are supported:

• 401K with matching
• Wellbeing Allowance of $500/annum
• Private medical coverage (including Dental & Vision)
• Annual leave and an extra day off to celebrate your birthday
• Employee Assistance Program

We are committed to making our organization an inclusive, respectful & engaging place to work with a culture shaped by our core values that promote equality, collaboration & respect in everything we do. We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident Scheme, meaning we are committed to being inclusive and accessible, which starts with our application and recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made, please let us know as part of our application page.