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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Front-End Engineer - **Company:** reallymoving - **Location:** St Albans, UK - **Salary:** £50,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Contentful, JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Performance Management, HTML5, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Microsoft Azure, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Ajax Programming), Cross-Site Request Forgery, Data Deduplication, Software Debugging, Software Design Patterns, Multi-Factor Authentication, Google Analytics, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), JSON, OAuth, OpenID, Open Web Application Security, Scrum Methodology, Next.js, Responsive Web Design, Semantic HTML, Single Sign-On, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Umbraco, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Web Applications, Web Usability, Google Tag Manager, Trunk-based Development, Network Routers, Link Control Protocol, Tailwind, ReactJS, Cypress (Programming Language), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Git, Git Flow, Solid Principles, Playwright, Performance Monitor, Graphql, Tools for Reporting, Front End Software Development, React Redux, React Testing Library, JestJS, Restful APIs - **Published:** July 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=47a3b46ad522473b ## About the Role * React: Strong experience building complex, scalable architectures using advanced component patterns including Compound Components, Render Props, Custom Hooks and Controlled/Uncontrolled components. * TypeScript: Strong understanding of static typing, generics and highly typed, self-documenting code. * Next.js and Vercel: Production experience with App Router/Pages Router, SSR, SSG, ISR, optimisation and deployment within Vercel. * Web fundamentals and UI: Strong understanding of the Critical Rendering Path, Browser Event Loop, HTML5, semantic markup, Flexbox, Grid and modern styling such as CSS Modules, Tailwind CSS or Styled Components. * Responsive design and accessibility: Mobile-first delivery, cross-browser troubleshooting and WCAG 2.1/ARIA implementation for inclusive interfaces., * E-commerce: Exposure to e-commerce or Headless Commerce environments. * GraphQL: Familiarity with queries, mutations and schemas. * Testing and cloud: Exposure to Playwright or Cypress, and Azure or other cloud platforms. * Design and analytics: Familiarity with performance monitoring, analytics tools and design systems. ## Description We're looking for a talented Front-End Engineer to join our Technology team and help shape the future of our e-commerce platforms and customer experiences. You'll build fast, accessible, scalable user experiences across desktop, tablet and mobile, working closely with Product, Design, Testing and Data. You'll contribute to technical decisions, help define front-end standards and join an engineering team that values excellence, automation, learning and modern software practices. What You'll Be Doing * Front-end development: Design, build and maintain responsive, high-performing web applications and reusable component libraries, contributing to architecture and technical design. * UX and customer focus: Translate high-fidelity designs into intuitive customer journeys, championing mobile-first, inclusive and accessible design. * Engineering excellence: Write clean, maintainable code using SOLID principles and design patterns, take part in code reviews and support engineering maturity. * Testing and quality: Support a quality-first approach through automated tests, debugging and robust production-ready solutions. * Continuous improvement: Keep up to date with modern frameworks, tools and trends to improve developer productivity and application performance., API, architecture and security * RESTful APIs: Confident use of HTTP methods, status codes, payload design and clean parsing of nested JSON with TypeScript. * API clients: Build resilient data-fetching with fetch or Axios, including interceptors for token injection, retry logic, request deduplication and timeout handling. * Protocols and security: Understand HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, HTTPS, CORS, preflight requests, secure headers, OWASP Top 10 risks including XSS, CSRF and injection, plus OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SSO, MFA and secure Bearer token management. Performance, state and data * Performance: Reduce bundle size through code-splitting, dynamic imports, tree-shaking, asset/font optimisation and Core Web Vitals including LCP, FID/INP and CLS. * State and caching: Client-side state management such as Zustand, Redux Toolkit or React Context, balanced with server-state tools such as TanStack/React Query or SWR for cache invalidation, background revalidation and optimistic UI updates. * Browser caching: Use HTTP headers, Cache-Control, ETag, LocalStorage, SessionStorage and IndexedDB effectively. Technical integration and delivery * CMS and integration: Consume content from headless CMS platforms, ideally Umbraco, Contentful or similar, via REST or GraphQL APIs. * Marketing and SEO: Implement technical SEO including metadata and schema markup, plus GA4, Google Tag Manager and tracking pixels. * Workflow: Git, Gitflow or trunk-based development, automated CI/CD and Agile/Scrum delivery. * Testing: Unit and integration testing using Jest, Vitest or React Testing Library. ## Related Videos - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Tips and Tricks for Working with JSON](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1229-tips-and-tricks-for-working-with-json) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [But, you're not Facebook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/378-but-you-re-not-facebook) - [Delay the AI Overlords: How OAuth and OpenFGA Can Keep Your AI Agents from Going Rogue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1637-delay-the-ai-overlords-how-oauth-and-openfga-can-keep-your-ai-agents-from-going-rogue) - [Introducing JSON Structure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100219-introducing-json-structure) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [16 Best Free React UI Libraries in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/148-16-best-free-react-ui-libraries-in-2025) - [The Best 7 Frontend Frameworks for Developers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/400-the-best-7-frontend-frameworks-for-developers-in-2025) - [Web Development Best Practices: What The Data Tells us](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/84-web-development-best-practices-what-the-data-tells-us) - [Dev Digest 113 - Debugging above the cloud](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/422-dev-digest-113-debugging-above-the-cloud)