Frontend Team Lead

We are pleased to confirm that this position has been created as a result of company wide growth.

Location: We offer a hybrid working environment, with a flexible work schedule to support a work life balance within the UK. The Secondmind office is based in Cambridge, a few minutes walk from the train station.

About Secondmind

Secondmind exists to help automotive innovators design better cars faster and achieve greater sustainability through machine learning. We are driven by a desire to achieve sustainability in our operation and through the products we develop for our customers.

Our positive working culture is founded on a collaborative environment that encourages teamwork and innovation. We foster open communication and cross-functional collaboration, enabling diverse teams to work together to solve complex challenges. Our flexible workplace plan ensures a healthy work-life balance, accommodating various working styles and personal needs, whether through remote work options or adaptable schedules.

We also prioritise personal and professional growth by offering development opportunities, including training and mentorship. This nurturing environment empowers our employees to thrive, continuously learn, and contribute meaningfully to our mission of advancing automotive system design and calibration with cutting-edge machine learning solutions.

Founded in 2016 and supported by investors such as Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge and Cambridge Innovation Capital, Secondmind was recently recognised with the Automotive Testing Technology International 'Alternative Powertrain Test Innovation of the Year Award'; selected for the Tech Nation Future Fifty scale-up program, and named by Bloomberg as one of the UK’s 25 startups to watch.

About the role

We are looking for a Frontend Team Lead to join our product development organisation. As a key member of the frontend discipline, you will work closely with UX designers, product managers, and other engineers to develop web applications featuring sophisticated data visualisations. You will also provide hands-on technical leadership and managerial oversight to our team of frontend engineers, ensuring that our solutions are high-performing, scalable, secure, and deliver a best-in-class user experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to define frontend development standards at Secondmind and build a successful team of frontend engineers.

Key responsibilities

As a Frontend Team Lead, you will:

• Collaborate cross-functionally, to implement and support customer-focused solutions as part of one of our product development squads.
• Be accountable for frontend technology choices and architecture to ensure consistent, high-quality deliverable of frontend solutions.
• Set and communicate the vision for frontend engineering, ensuring alignment and commitment across the team and business.
• Lead and mentor a diverse team of frontend engineers, fostering a high-performance culture.

What skills, experience, and qualifications do you need to succeed in this role?

Essential

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with at least two years of experience leading technical teams.
• Expertise in designing maintainable and high performance web applications in a commercial setting, with a minimum of five years of experience.
• Proven track record of delivering high quality React frontends, including the use of data visualisation libraries such as Chart.js or D3.js.
• Strong advocate for best practices in frontend engineering, including automated testing with tools like Jest and Playwright.

Desirable

• Familiarity with build tools like Vite, UI component libraries such as Material-UI, and authentication systems like Auth0.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., GitHub) and continuous integration systems such as Jenkins.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform and deployment tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

Our culture - What we can offer you

We offer a working environment that is inclusive, stimulates innovation and continuous learning, and that thrives on growth and change.

Our culture is underpinned by our values; they are what we stand for, part of our DNA. They help us to attract and retain the right talent and customers, help us make the right decisions and clarify how we should all behave and treat one another, they are:

• Delight every customer (Customers)
• No bar too high (Excellence)
• Give more than take (Sustainability)
• Make the impossible, possible (Innovation)
• Celebrate differences, act as one (Inclusion)

We also offer a number of benefits including:

• Competitive salary - reviewed annually
• 25 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance of 4x salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Eyecare Policy
• Dental Cash Plan
• Stock Options (where applicable)
• Free 24 hour access on-site gym
• Discount Shopping & Wellbeing Platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Values Award Scheme
• Cambridge Botanic Garden membership
• Social events, game nights and sports groups

We are an equal opportunities employer, and aim to ensure all candidates are treated equally and fairly through the application process and beyond. We actively encourage applicants from under-represented backgrounds, and encourage our people to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work. If you require assistance or an accommodation through the interview process due to a disability, to apply for one of our roles, please contact hr@secondmind.ai.