Summary
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A senior frontend engineering position with high autonomy, focused on leading the design and delivery of customer-facing applications. You will shape frontend architecture and standards, mentor engineers, build scalable React and Next.js solutions, and drive improvements in performance, accessibility, security and reliability.
Highlights
Senior frontend role with substantial autonomy and influence over technical direction. The position includes mentoring engineers, shaping scalable frontend architecture, improving performance and accessibility, and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.
Description
Role: Senior Frontend Engineer
Salary: Up to £70k
Location: Hybrid - Hereford
We’re looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer (React/Nextjs) to lead the design, delivery and continuous improvement of customer-facing applications and services.
You’ll work with a high degree of autonomy, influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and help build a culture focused on customer value, engineering excellence and continuous learning.
Key Responsibilities
Lead customer-focused delivery, prioritising incremental value and a test-and-learn approach.Mentor and coach engineers, raising technical quality and engineering standards.Design and evolve scalable React / Next.js applications and shared component libraries.Define frontend architecture, technical direction and development standards across teams.Drive improvements in performance, scalability, accessibility, security and reliability.Monitor and optimise frontend performance, bundle sizes, rendering and client-side health.Improve state management and component architecture across large-scale applications.Champion modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, with appropriate code review and quality controls.Work closely with product, design, research and engineering teams to translate user needs into effective technical solutions.Support production services, diagnose complex issues and improve system resilience and stability.Contribute to SDLC, testing, quality standards and across engineering teams.
What You’ll Bring
Strong commercial experience building and operating React / Next.js applications.Excellent understanding of frontend architecture, component design and modern development practices.Proven experience improving web performance and frontend scalability.Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving skills.Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams.A customer-focused mindset with a commitment to accessibility and user-centred design.Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP, including consideration of cost and performance.Understanding of SRE principles, monitoring and production support.Excellent communication skills and the ability to bridge technical and non-technical perspectives.A proactive approach to learning, experimentation and continuous improvement.
If the above sounds interesting, apply with your CV today
