About Bark

Bark is an online services marketplace connecting customers with professionals across over 1,000 categories. Operating in nine countries including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, we're transforming how people find trusted service providers for everything from home improvement to professional services.

Our platform uses cutting-edge technology to match customers with the right professionals quickly and efficiently. With a global team of over 220 people, we're currently undergoing an exciting transformation: migrating from a lead generation model to a full marketplace platform with subscription based pricing.

As a profitable, PE backed scale up (EMK Capital), Bark offers the best of both worlds: the agility and innovation of a fast moving business combined with financial stability and resources for growth. We recently launched our new marketplace model in Australia (Q4 2025) and are preparing for rollout to the UK and US markets in 2026. You'll have genuine ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape our commercial strategy during a pivotal transformation phase with the chance to make your own contribution to our journey.

About the Role

We are looking for talented Front End Engineer to join our growing team (For a fixed-term contract until May 2027). You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of making beautiful and innovative products used by a million users every month. You’ll be passionate about writing scalable, testable and maintainable code to support our fast growing team.

We’re looking for someone who can help us take deliver great features while also maintaining and elevating the quality of our React apps. We are at a juncture where we move from an MVP to established products, and your experience will help shape our technology. You’ll have the opportunity to shape our expanding product offering and work on migrations and greenfield projects.

You’ll get the opportunity to implement and utilise a variety of technologies, paving the future of Bark whilst enhancing how we solve complex problems that impact millions of users every day. You’ll be encouraged to be as involved as you want, with an opportunity to influence every aspect of the process from ideation and architectural design, right through to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Translation of UX/UI designs into production-quality front-end experiences, using our proposed Front End stack (React, Typescript)

• Optimisation of build, test and deployment cycles to ensure the best performance of our web application

• Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase

• Designing and coding solutions for systems with 1,000s of transactions a second

• Collaboration with product managers and designers to create prototypes necessary for usability evaluations, A/B and MVP testing and development specifications

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years experience working with large scale Front end frameworks in a production environment (React, Vue, Angular or similar)

• 2+ years recent experience working specifically with React

• Proven, hands on experience with Javascript

• A solid understanding of, and ideally experience with, React component libraries

• Strong experience building responsive web applications optimised for rich and interactive user experiences

Desired skills and experience

• Experience migrating to a micro front end using React

• Experience with DevOps solutions like AWS tools, and CI/CD pipelines
  

Interview Process

• Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)

• 1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30 mins)

• 2nd Stage - Technical Task (60 mins)

• 3rd Stage - Values interview (30 mins)

Diversity Statement

At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.