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# Senior Frontend Engineer

- **Company:** Octopus Energy Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Octopus Deploy, Next.js, Software Engineering, TypeScript, ReactJS, Graphql, Front End Software Development, React Testing Library
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5778212576d35536

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience with our stack (listed below)
 * Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
 * Confidence owning the development cycle (request, requirements gathering, technical proposal, technical execution, deployment and monitoring.)
 * Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually
 * An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
 * The ability to develop websites that meet strong accessibility guidelines
 * Experience building scalable, performant sites that handle high levels of traffic well
 * Desirable: energy domain knowledge, * React (required)
 * TypeScript (required)
 * Next.js on Vercel (desirable)
 * GraphQL w/ Tanstack Query (desirable)
 * React Testing Library & vitest and/or msw (desirable)

## Description

* Acting as the flexibility team's first frontend engineer, establish the team's frontend capability, lead the team's frontend technical direction and represent the team to the cross-team community of frontend engineers
 * Build and own a diverse range of customer-facing user journeys, enabling customers to onboard, control, and analyse their low carbon tech
 * Build and own internal-facing interfaces for stakeholder-collaborators and experimental prototypes
 * Interface with established mobile teams by providing WebViews for emerging mobile customer journeys
 * Collaborate with our internal design team to integrate our designs into the wider Octopus design system 'Coral'
 * Carry out product discovery by working closely with our Product Manager and stakeholders from across the organisation
 * Build highly reusable interfaces that enable rapid response to new opportunities


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