Senior React Developer

Reapit – Who are we?

Reapit is the original end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology empowers property professionals across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand to work with buyers, sellers, tenants, and landlords to deliver a dream home experience.

Worldwide, over 78,000 agents across more than 15,000 branches use Reapit to run their businesses, manage properties, collect rent, engage clients, and provide outstanding customer service every time.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Engineering Director you’ll be involved in:

• Developing an exceptional user experience for a rapidly growing business critical SaaS product using React, Typescript and the latest versions of associated frameworks.

• Technically hands on, devoting at least 90% of the working week to software development or technical tasks

• Collaborating with your squad and other key colleagues to help plan and implement designs and technical requirements.

• Able to take on some of the more complex and challenging tasks in the development backlog.

• Takes responsibility for their own output which should adhere to best practices and tested to a high-quality with timely delivery.

• Participating in the technical decision making for the product.

• Assist junior colleagues with their development work, pairing to co-solve challenges and promoting best practice design patterns.

• Participate in building the Reapit Global Technology Strategy, based around a centralised Platform as a Service (PaaS), shared tools and services like Reapit Connect, Elements, Design System, CLI Tools and Infra as a Service (IaaS).

Who we’re looking for

At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.

• 5+ years’ industry experience in frontend engineering, developing components and responsive web applications with a focus on React, Typescript and the React/JavaScript eco-system.

• In-depth knowledge of frontend fundamentals such as HTML, CSS, Web Accessibility and browsers.

• Expert using modern test frameworks such as React Testing Library and Playwright.

• Comfortable working in a cross-functional Agile team and collaborating with designers.

• Good problem-solving ability, attention to detail and able to break down complex work into deliverable chunks.

What your impact and success looks like

As a Senior React Engineer, we expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:

Within 1 month:

• Delivering new code across our repositories and first tickets

Within 3 months:

• Taking ownership of developing new requirements

Within 6 months:

• Completing significant new features

What’s in it for you?

We operate a Flexible Working Policy which allows you to work remotely with a weekly visit to our head office location in Farringdon, London.

We’re offering the chance to really make a difference here at Reapit and the opportunity for personal growth is very real. You’ll feel part of a special team. You can expect a highly competitive salary and some great benefits, including:

• 5.5% employer pension contribution

• 20 days annual leave (plus a day for your birthday) increasing by a day for every year worked

• Business permitting, we’re closed over Christmas and New Year, to give you time back to your friends and family

• Formal and in-house training for your L&D plus access to Go1 – the worlds largest online learning library

• Health benefits via Benenden Health, annual flu vaccinations and many others

• Season ticket loan

• Regular local and companywide social events including Tucker Thursday - mouth-watering cuisine delivered straight to the office doors once a month!

• Opportunity to participate in retail benefits and savings via our Benefits partner, Zest!

Don’t tick all the boxes? Neither do we

We care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we’re driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.

We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all our employees.