Senior Front End Engineer - React Specialist

• Lead Technical Design and Implementation: Take ownership of complex frontend features and architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and optimal performance across all applications.

• Be a React/Next.js Expert: Leverage advanced React and Next.js features, including Server Components, client-side rendering, routing, and data fetching within the App Router paradigm to build robust, modern applications.

• Code Quality and Standards: Establish and enforce high-quality coding standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and advocating for best practices in state management, testing, and component architecture.

• Write Clean, Accessible Code: Be responsible for writing accessible code, ensuring high standards of accessibility (A11Y) and responsiveness across all devices.

• Drive Technical Direction: Help set direction and embed good practice within teams, providing guidance on modern development standards, tooling, and best practices.

• Mentorship and Coaching: Actively mentor mid-level and junior engineers, sharing your expertise in React, Next.js, and general software development principles, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to translate high-level requirements and designs into tangible, user-friendly interfaces.

• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance and security issues, optimizing load times and ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Mentor and Collaborate: Teach and mentor other developers on technical skills and best practices. Collaborate effectively with other disciplines (UX/Design, Backend) to understand requirements and deliver the best user experience.

• Focus on the User: Champion user research and collaborate with interaction designers to ensure all development meets genuine user needs.

Hard Skills (Technical Expertise)

• Mastery of React and the Ecosystem: Extensive experience with React hooks, component lifecycle, functional components, and popular state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand, or equivalent).

• Next.js Specialisation: Proven track record building large-scale applications with Next.js, specifically leveraging the App Router, Server Components, data fetching strategies, and deployment best practices.

• Advanced Styling Solutions: Expertise in modern CSS approaches, particularly using Vanilla Extract CSS (or similar CSS-in-JS/CSS modules solutions) for maintainable and scalable styling.

• Common Frontend Technologies: Strong command of HTML5, CSS3, and modern web APIs. Experience with bundling tools (e.g., Webpack, Vite) and package managers (npm, yarn).

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Solid experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests (e.g., Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress).

• Programming and Build: Experience building, testing, and documenting user interfaces of medium to high complexity, using appropriate standards and tools.

• RESTful APIs: Experience consuming and integrating with backend services via RESTful APIs.

• Accessibility: Ability to champion accessibility to internal stakeholders and build user interfaces that meet a predefined set of standards.

• Web Performance Optimisation: Skilled at identifying and resolving web performance issues and collecting data to monitor them.

Soft Skills (Leadership and Communication)

• Mentorship and Teaching: Proven ability to coach, guide, and inspire team members, providing constructive feedback and technical direction.

• Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Excellent analytical skills with a proactive approach to identifying, diagnosing, and solving complex technical challenges.

• Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ownership and Accountability: A strong sense of responsibility for the quality and delivery of features and projects.

• Collaboration: Ability to thrive in a collaborative, agile environment and contribute positively.