Full Stack Software Engineer - React

Hargreaves Lansdown — United Kingdom · Posted ~6 hours ago

Mid Full-time

Skills

React TypeScript GraphQL Frontend architecture API development

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A full-stack engineering role with strong frontend focus, involving modern web applications, user experiences, and backend API contributions.

Highlights

Build modern customer-facing experiences using contemporary frontend technologies while contributing across the full application stack.

Description

Full Stack Engineer with a strong frontend focus, working across React, TypeScript, GraphQL and modern frontend architecture patterns. You'll help build customer journeys that enable clients to discover investments, compare savings products, search financial instruments and complete account opening and transfer journeys across the Discover platform. We're expanding our Discover engineering team and are looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a strong frontend focus to help shape and evolve one of our key customer discovery platforms. You'll work primarily on modern React applications and customer-facing experiences, whilst remaining comfortable contributing to backend services and APIs when required. This is an opportunity to work with modern frontend technologies, GraphQL-driven experiences, micro-frontend architectures and customer journeys that play a key role in our digital strategy. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about creating exceptional user experiences, take ownership of their work, and enjoy collaborating across product, design and engineering disciplines. You'll help build customer journeys that enable clients to discover investment opportunities, compare savings products, search across financial instruments and complete account opening and transfer journeys. What You'll Be Doing Design, develop and maintain customer-facing applications across the Discover platform. Build responsive, accessible and high-performing user experiences using React and TypeScript. Develop and enhance features across multiple frontend applications and shared component libraries. Consume and integrate GraphQL and REST APIs within modern frontend architectures. Contribute to the evolution of our micro-frontend and platform architecture. Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver customer value. Take ownership of features from design through to production deployment. Support CI/CD pipelines and frontend delivery processes. Drive engineering improvements, automation and operational excellence. Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews and architecture conversations. What We're Looking For Strong ownership mentality. A passion for building intuitive and engaging customer experiences. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Comfortable working within modern frontend ecosystems and distributed systems. Strong communication and collaboration skills. Curiosity and willingness to learn across the full stack. A proactive approach to identifying usability, performance and accessibility improvements. Required Skills & Experience Frontend Engineering React TypeScript Vite TanStack Query Zustand Tailwind CSS React Testing Library Playwright Modern component-based architecture patterns Building customer-facing web applications GraphQL & APIs GraphQL is an increasingly important part of our future architecture and customer experience platform. We'd particularly welcome candidates with experience in: Consuming GraphQL APIs within frontend applications Building GraphQL-driven user experiences Working with GraphQL schemas and API contracts Integrating frontend applications with GraphQL and REST services Developing applications in API-first environments Full Stack Development Understanding of backend architectures and API integration patterns Node.js exposure REST API integration Experience working across frontend and backend technologies Engineering Practices Automated testing CI/CD pipelines GitHub or GitLab workflows Modern software delivery practices Code reviews and collaborative development Desirable Skills Modern Frontend Architecture Micro-frontend architectures Module Federation Performance optimisation techniques Frontend observability and monitoring Design systems and shared component libraries Search & Content Platforms Contentful or other Headless CMS platforms Typesense Elasticsearch Additional Technologies LaunchDarkly or feature flagging platforms OAuth and authentication flows Analytics integration Grafana or similar observability platforms Accessibility-first development Cloud Exposure AWS Lambda API Gateway Infrastructure as Code concepts Nice to Have Financial Services experience Exposure to PHP-based platforms and services Experience working in large-scale digital product organisations You'll be comfortable taking ownership of features from design through to production, collaborating closely with design, product and engineering teams, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve both the customer experience and the way we work. You'll contribute to the evolution of Discover by delivering intuitive, reliable and accessible user experiences, supporting engineering excellence, and helping shape the future of one of our key customer-facing platforms.