AI & Agentic Frontend Solutions Developer

• UI/UX Craftsmanship: Design and build high-performance, responsive, and visually stunning user interfaces for all internal micro-applications and tools, ensuring a consistent and premium user experience.
• Component Library & Design Systems: Create a modular, reusable UI component library and custom design system tokens to enable the team to prototype and launch new micro-applications at extreme speed.
• Data Science Interface Enablement: Collaborate closely with the Data Science team to translate advanced, complex multi-agent flows, vector search queries, and generative AI outputs into interactive, highly understandable visual interfaces (e.g., node visualizers, step-by-step agent tracking, or dynamic chat playgrounds).
• AI Interaction Paradigms: Develop and optimise front-end patterns tailored specifically for LLM interactions, including stream rendering, rich markdown text, custom chat containers, interactive fallback widgets, and live feedback loops.
• Backbone API Integration: Seamlessly consume and integrate your frontends with the pod’s shared platform backbone, managing authentication, secure data transfer, state, and automated provisioning.
• Rapid Prototyping: Turn napkin-sketch ideas from business teams into highly functional, interactive mockups and production-ready applications within days.
• Reporting Structure: Report directly to the Engineering Lead.

• Frontend Virtuoso: Highly skilled in modern frontend development, with production-grade experience in React, TypeScript, and modern styling utilities (such as Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/ui, or Radix UI).
• Visual & Logic Bridge Builder: You possess a strong aesthetic eye and solid UI/UX design sensibilities, with the ability to take complex backend agent logic and distill it into simple, elegant user journeys.
• AI-Ready Developer: Familiar with frontend-specific AI patterns and tooling (such as Vercel AI SDK, stream processing, or websocket integrations) to build highly responsive, real-time AI interactions.
• Rapid Builder: A “maker” who thrives on the pace of a startup-style environment, with a passion for rapid prototyping, iteration, and shipping user-ready code quickly over writing slow, over-engineered frameworks.
• Integration Minded: Comfortable consuming complex REST/GraphQL APIs and working with asynchronous state management libraries to handle dense, real-time data flows.
• Empathetic Collaborator: A strong communicator who genuinely loves working closely with Data Scientists, product owners, and business stakeholders to turn raw technological power into practical, daily-use tools.

Desirable

• Experience with visual flow libraries (e.g., React Flow) or interactive data visualisation libraries (e.g., D3.js, Recharts).
• Experience using Node.js, Python, or basic API frameworks to write quick backend mockups when needed.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and performance optimization techniques for web applications.

Pulled from the full job description

• Shuttle service provided
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym membership
• Car scheme

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivalled service, and reassuringly good value. We’re also on a mission to empower our business with smart technology; we’ve recently launched our AI Academy, providing a tailored AI learning journey for every colleague.

We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S, and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket, ocado.com. Not only is Ocado the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service., By joining Ocado Retail, you’ll have the chance to experience life at the world’s largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what’s possible each day, and grow your skills and career in online retail. You’ll also be part of our AI Academy, a dedicated learning journey designed to empower every colleague with the smart technology skills of the future.

If that’s not enough to tempt you, you’ll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal. Here’s a taste of what we offer:

Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market-leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance, and more.

Spend & Save: Annual bonus scheme split between personal and business objectives, recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast every day in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme, and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.

Never miss the moments that matter: Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.