Software Engineer (Frontend)

Core responsibilities:

• Build and maintain complex, user-facing features using React (and hooks) with TypeScript, HTML, and modern CSS.
• Translate Figma/wireframes into accessible, responsive interfaces that work across modern browsers and devices.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to refine requirements and ship user-centric features.
• Integrate REST APIs, handle auth, error states, and real-world edge cases in the UI.
• Own performance for your features: measure with Lighthouse/Web Vitals, optimize rendering, bundling, and network usage.
• Write automated tests (unit, integration, component) and participate in code reviews to maintain a high-quality codebase.
• Contribute to and evolve a shared design system/component library to keep things consistent and reduce duplication.

This role contributes to increasing transparency and automation in waste management to accelerate the circular economy, helping to address the global waste crisis by improving recycling rates and reducing environmental harm.

Required skills and experience:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering roles with 5+ years of proficiency in JavaScript and React (or similar).
• Solid experience with JavaScript (ES6+) and React (hooks, context, component composition).
• Good grasp of modern styling approaches (CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, Tailwind, or similar) and responsive design.
• Experience with state management (Redux, Zustand, RTK Query, or similar) and routing solutions.
• Familiarity with front-end build tooling (Webpack/Vite, Babel, linting, formatting, testing frameworks).
• Ability to self-organize and prioritize tasks, with awareness of knowledge boundaries and collaboration skills.
• Passion for addressing the waste crisis or other environmental issues.

Competitive London-based salary (salary band available upon application) + Employee stock option scheme, customized hybrid working, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, paid sick leave, unlimited healthy snacks in office, enhanced parental leave, £500 per year learning and development budget, 1-1 mental health support, summer Friday half-days, cycle to work scheme, £500 home office budget, and 12-day nomad working allowance.

Greyparrot's mission is to increase transparency and automation in waste management to accelerate the circular economy. They deploy camera systems and AI software in recycling plants and waste facilities worldwide to measure material flows and provide waste analytics.