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# Frontend Engineer - React / Next.js (Contract)

- **Company:** hedgehog lab
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Contentful, Web Accessibility, Next.js, TypeScript, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, GitHub Copilot, ReactJS, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bd0669990a16dffc

## About the Role

* Strong React, Next.js and TypeScript.
 * Experience with Vercel and a headless CMS, Contentful ideally.
 * A real understanding of web accessibility and WCAG.
 * Care for performance and usability, not just shipping features.
 * Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.

## Description

Accessibility isn't a checkbox on this one, it's the point. We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to build customer-facing interfaces for a large regulated UK organisation, where the people using them include those who depend on the service working properly. React, Next and TypeScript, built to a genuinely high bar.

What you'll do:

 * Build accessible, high-quality interfaces in React, Next.js and TypeScript.
 * Ship through Vercel and manage content with Contentful.
 * Work closely with design to get the details right.
 * Hold a high bar for accessibility across everything you build.


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