Software Engineer
CurrentMy time at Reach has been split across a number of different teams. Starting my first role as a Junior Engineer in the User Journeys team before being promoted in Nov 2021 to Mid-level and switching to the Innovations & Personalisation team. In 2023 I was involved in the set up and leadership of two teams. I have been Focussing predominantly on Front-end, I have been creating and improving features for Reach PLC's wide range of publications with over 48 million monthly users (Mirror.co.uk… Show more My time at Reach has been split across a number of different teams. Starting my first role as a Junior Engineer in the User Journeys team before being promoted in Nov 2021 to Mid-level and switching to the Innovations & Personalisation team. In 2023 I was involved in the set up and leadership of two teams. I have been Focussing predominantly on Front-end, I have been creating and improving features for Reach PLC's wide range of publications with over 48 million monthly users (Mirror.co.uk, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo etc).Some recent Highlights- Specialising in JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Next.js & Jest tech stack- Successful record of delivering multiple front-end features across the development lifecycle: design through implementation- Own multiple projects including: - Push Notifications - Increasing customer re-engagement with our products through browser based push notifications. 4 million+ users are engage with this feature - Marketing Opt-In - Adding another avenue for Reach to engage with audiences - Growthbook - Improving the tooling and development lifecycle of the experiments platform - Bookmarks - built from conception to reality using React, Typescript, MongoDB, Jest, Node, Serverless. Supporting cross platform bookmarking and Increasing user engagement and page views. Over 1 million bookmarks saved so far.- Experience of working with multiple 3rd party products (Viafoura Comments, Airship web push notifications etc) - Spent the last 9 months onboarding, mentoring and leading contractors forming 2 new teams- Cross-functional working with many other teams in Reach Digital (mobile apps, Data-product, Ad-product, UX Design, User Research etc)- High level of involvement in the wider Digital team forum as well as a number of Hackathon projects to improve website performance Show less