React · Google Maps · NodeJS

Senior Care Marketplace

2018 – 2021Commercial · React · Marketplace · Testing

My first product at 104: a two-sided marketplace where carers registered their skills and available hours, each got a profile page, and families browsed and booked them. It carried the parts a real marketplace needs — scheduling, a photo-and-timestamp clock-in, map-based discovery, and reminder emails. It was built in React. It was never replaced by the 45+ job platform — they are two different products; this one couldn't be made to pay for itself, so the company had our team build a new one. The change I'm proudest of here wasn't a feature: the team had no automated tests at all, and by the time I left, a passing test suite was a required step in every pull request.

Key features & challenges

Added server-side rendering to the live React site myself: a server route table, a loadData on each page, and the Redux store sent to the browser, so search engines could read its pages.
Built map-based discovery of nearby carers with Google Maps, including pin clustering at low zoom levels.
Built the grid where carers set the hours they can work, the family booking screen, and the clock-in screen, plus the failure states when a booking couldn't be taken.
Introduced automated testing to a team that had none: my manager raised the idea, I researched the options and led it in, wrote the first Jest and Nightwatch suites, and ran sharing sessions to teach the team to write their own.
Added the tests to CI, so a pull request couldn't merge if they failed.
Coverage was still small when I left, and I don't have numbers.

My contributions

Front-end work on both sides of the marketplace, and the person who brought testing into the team.
Preventing double bookings was handled on the back end; my part was the front-end states around it.
The screenshot is the product's 2019 marketing home page from the Internet Archive, not a feature I built — the map search and availability screens sat behind a login and were never archived.