Lead Frontend Engineer

About Verticurl: Verticurl (a division of Ogilvy), is a WPP company, was established in 2006 with the mission to be the world’s leading marketing technology services agency for global organization with a presence in APAC, North America and LATAM. Verticurl global marketing automation, demand generation and digital strategy specialists support our customers in more than 14 different languages and in a variety of industry sectors, including High Tech, Banking, Insurance and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Consumer Electronics. WPP is listed in London stock exchange which has approximately 130,000 employees across more than 130 countries. About Ogilvy: Ogilvy is one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world. It was named the Cannes Lions Network of the Year for five consecutive years, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016; the EFFIEs World's Most Effective Agency Network in 2012, 2013 and 2016; and Adweek's Global Agency of the Year in 2016. The company is comprised of industry leading units in the following disciplines: advertising; public relations and public affairs; branding and identity; shopper and retail marketing; health care communications; direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing; consulting, research and analytics; branded content and entertainment; and specialist communications. O&M services Fortune Global 500 companies as well as local businesses through its network of more than 500 offices in 126 countries. It is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY). For more information, visit or follow Ogilvy on Twitter at @Ogilvy and on Facebook.com/Ogilvy. Work Location: Gurgaon (Hybrid) Purpose of the Role: About the Role: We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Lead Frontend Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a background in web development using React and related frameworks. Responsibilities:

• Creating prototypes and high-quality production-ready React/NextJS front-end single page applications
• Driving forward the quality - in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, code reviews
• Delivering on an Agile workstream of front-end developers on a project, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning and estimates
• Conversing confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Building modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
• Representing front-end in a client-facing capacity
• Cooperating with design and marketing teams to gather and refine specifications requirements for development
• Being involved in existing and new integrations for the platform
• Full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance, expansion and scaling

• Strong commercial experience of hands on React development, with a solid understanding of the core concepts
• Strong commercial experience of serverless development and server-side development with NextJS
• Solid understanding of state management technologies/approaches i.e. Redux, Flux
• Extensive Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS) and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry defined coding standards
• Extensive experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)
• Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation, refinement sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos
• Experience of mentoring junior members of the team
• Experience in component development with Storybook
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security and usability
• Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders
• Proficient understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser and cross-de compatibility issues
• Commercial experience working on SPA solutions, ideally within e-commerce
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Grunt and webpack
• Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed
• Have experience of integrating with a variety of external, 3rd party systems