Front-End Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join our agile, product-aligned engineering teams. This is a senior individual contributor role with clear expectations around technical ownership, engineering leadership, and delivery at scale.

You'll be front-end focused, playing a key role in shaping the customer experience across our MACH-based digital platform (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-Native, Headless), which powers 70+ websites and mobile applications across multiple Frasers Group brands. Beyond delivery, you will act as a technical mentor for our wider front-end community and a key partner to our Design, Product, and Content teams.

This role goes beyond feature delivery. As a Senior Engineer, you'll influence technical direction, raise engineering standards, and help teams make better long-term decisions around performance, quality, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive front-end architecture decisions including component design, state management, and application structure.
• Contribute to and influence shared design systems and front-end standards used across brands and squads.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex front-end solutions using modern frameworks (primarily React, NextJS and TypeScript).
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and pairing; ensuring coding standards are kept while raising the capability of engineers around you.
• Act as a senior technical partner to Product, Design, and Content teams-shaping solutions from discovery through to delivery and providing technical support on how to use certain systems.
• Take ownership of critical customer journeys, ensuring high standards of usability, accessibility, performance, and resilience.
• Build, consume, and evolve GraphQL and REST APIs, contributing to Node.js backend services where required.
• Champion engineering best practices: code quality, testing strategy, performance optimisation, and security.
• Stay ahead of front-end and full-stack trends, bringing informed, pragmatic innovation into the platform.
• Stay active in the tech community, attending conferences and bringing back new ideas and knowledge to the platform.
• Proactively identify technical risks, platform constraints, and opportunities for improvement e.g. CI/CD pipelines, developer experience, and delivery flow.

Essential experience:

• Significant commercial experience as a Senior Front-End or Full-Stack Engineer in large-scale production environments.
• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers and supporting their technical growth.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript. · Deep experience with React and NextJS (or equivalent modern front-end frameworks).
• Strong communication skills and experience building relationships with Design, Product, and Content teams.
• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, including testing, CI/CD, and automation.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working in MACH / composable commerce architectures.
• Knowledge of Core Web Vitals and front-end performance monitoring.
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms & Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• Event-driven or distributed system exposure.
• A strong DevOps mindset and comfortable working in containerised environments.

At Frasers Group we're rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we're serving our consumers with the world's best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we're elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME. Why join us? Our vision- we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem Our purpose - we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world's best brands and experiences At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles: * Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you * Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results * Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet, Frasers Champion- Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have lived the Frasers Group values. Retail Reconnect - In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem, all employees must understand our business, product and customers. Each financial year, head office employees will gain insights by spending one to two days in one of our stores or the warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline, and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work. Fearless 1200 - Fearless 1200 is our way of recognising our growth. It's bold, ambitious, and designed to reward colleagues across the business for living our values and delivering impact. Fearless 1200 links how we perform to how we're rewarded - check out the video link to find out more - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qmvJofMew Employee Welfare Frasers Fit - Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best, and fittest on the planet! We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical, Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training, nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free. Retail Trust - We know that its not just about physical health, mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.