frontend engineer
Harnham
Dethick, Lea and Holloway, United Kingdom
4 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 90KJob location
Dethick, Lea and Holloway, United Kingdom
Tech stack
API
Cloud Engineering
Node.js
Next.js
Systems Integration
TypeScript
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web Usability
React
Software Application Programming
Backend
GraphQL
Front End Software Development
Microservices
Job description
You will be a senior individual contributor within frontend focused squads, working on high impact customer experiences.
- Build and evolve customer facing ecommerce journeys including browse, checkout, payments, and membership.
- Influence frontend architecture, design systems, and shared standards across squads.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Content to shape solutions from discovery to delivery.
- Act as a technical mentor, supporting frontend engineers across the wider team.
- Champion performance, accessibility, and quality across production systems.
- Collaborate with backend engineers, integrating with Node.js services and APIs in a microservices environment.
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience with JavaScript and TypeScript in large scale production environments.
- Deep experience building applications with React, ideally using Next.js.
- Proven understanding of frontend performance, accessibility standards such as WCAG, and Core Web Vitals.
- Experience integrating with REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Comfort working in a modern engineering environment alongside microservices and cloud native platforms.
- A holistic mindset, understanding how frontend fits into the wider system.
- Full stack experience with a frontend lean is highly valued.
About the company
They are a major UK based retail and ecommerce organisation undergoing significant digital change. Technology sits at the heart of their strategy, with engineering teams owning core customer journeys across multiple consumer brands. The environment is product led, highly collaborative, and focused on building scalable platforms that support millions of users. Engineering is empowered to shape decisions, not just deliver tickets.