Senior Frontend Engineer

We’re working with a well-established, growing organisation that has recently undergone a major transformation across its technology function, with significant investment and huge growth within the technical team. As part of this continued growth, they’re now looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong React and Next.js experience to join the team. You’ll have the opportunity to influence frontend architecture, make important technical decisions, improve engineering standards and play a key role in how customer-facing applications are designed, built and delivered. This is a role for someone who wants genuine ownership. You’ll be trusted to work with a high degree of autonomy, bring fresh ideas to the table and take responsibility for solutions from initial concept through to production. The Role

• Designing and developing scalable React and Next.js applications
• Helping shape frontend architecture and technical standards
• Making decisions around component architecture, state management and application performance
• Improving page performance, rendering and bundle sizes
• Taking ownership of the quality and testing of your code
• Writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code, including unit testing
• Contributing to technical strategy and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Working with cloud-based environments and supporting live production applications
• Considering resilience, scalability and performance throughout the development lifecycle
• Championing accessibility and ensuring applications meet strong accessibility standards
• Working closely with wider engineering teams to establish and improve development practices
• Mentoring and supporting more junior engineers
• Exploring and adopting AI-assisted development tools where they can genuinely improve productivity and delivery

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable operating at a senior level and doesn’t need to be told what to do at every turn. You’ll ideally have:

• Strong commercial experience with React
• Significant production experience with Next.js
• Strong JavaScript and/or TypeScript experience
• Experience building and supporting large-scale customer-facing applications
• A strong understanding of frontend architecture and modern engineering practices
• Experience writing comprehensive unit tests and taking ownership of code quality
• Experience working with live production systems
• A good understanding of performance, scalability and resilience
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility and experience putting accessibility best practices into action
• Experience working within a cross-functional/product-focused engineering environment
• A proactive approach to problem solving and technical decision making
• Experience mentoring or supporting less experienced developers
• An interest in using AI tools within the development lifecycle while maintaining strong engineering standards