JavaScript Engineer

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a JavaScript Engineer to join the elementsuite team, who's passionate about creating engaging, high-quality products and tools. You'll be working closely with our Application Development team, contributing to our cutting-edge HR software platform.

This is a hands-on role where you'll build user-centric, performant interfaces while following modern engineering standards. If you're someone who thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment and enjoys working with frameworks like Vue.js and Knockout.js - this one's for you.

elementsuite is rewriting the rulebook on how enterprise software is built. Our cloud-native platform powers flexible, scalable, and beautifully simple HR and workforce management solutions. At the start of this year, elementsuite and Zellis joined forces to create an AI-enabled, end-to-end HR, WFM and Pay solution. We already support some of the biggest brands in the UK & Ireland, combining deep HR domain expertise with next-generation technology. Together, we're transforming the future of HR and Payroll technology, where artificial intelligence meets human expertise to reimagine the world of work: intuitive, connected and AI-enabled. Our all-in-one solution is designed to power exceptional employee experiences and help our customers thrive.

Key Responsibilities In The Role Will Include

• Building innovative, high-quality products in line with the elementsuite roadmap.
• Writing clean, reusable JavaScript code using modern frameworks (e.g. Vue.js, Knockout.js).
• Developing responsive UI/UX experiences using HTML5, CSS3, and SASS.
• Testing your work thoroughly with appropriate unit testing before release.
• Estimating your own work and managing time effectively.
• Refactoring code regularly to improve performance and maintainability.
• Collaborating with the Head of Application and cross-functional teams to align on design and implementation.
• Sharing your expertise to help evolve best practices and technical standards.
• Staying mindful of performance (HTTP requests, caching, rendering, DOM manipulation, etc).
• Testing across multiple browsers and devices, including smartphones and tablets.
• Supporting operational delivery sessions and contributing technical insights.
• Participating in peer reviews, giving and receiving feedback, and continually learning.
  
  

Skills & experience

• Demonstrable experience working in a software engineering environment (any experience in HR software would be advantageous).
• Strong JavaScript skills and experience with modern frameworks (Vue.js, Knockout.js, jQuery).
• Solid understanding of MVVM, responsive design, and UI/UX principles.
• Experience working with APIs and data visualisation tools like D3.js.
• Familiarity with Git or SVN for version control.
• Understanding of SQL and the ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly.
• A pragmatic mindset, balancing time, cost, and quality with guidance from leadership.
  
  

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create AI-enabled HR, workforce management and payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

About

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 3,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.
  
  

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.