Lead Frontend Engineer

Salary: £49,000 - 66,000 per year

Requirements

• Extensive background in front-end development with significant experience in ReactJS and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Experience with Next.js, Angular, or Vue.js is beneficial.
• Experience with mobile development frameworks such as React Native is beneficial.
• Experience with unit testing in Jest.
• Experience with technical leadership and mentoring engineers, including guiding architecture, code quality, and best practices.
• Experience with GraphQL and React for efficient data fetching and state management is preferred.
• Continuous integration experience, including Docker.
• Experience developing and deploying solutions on AWS Cloud is beneficial; AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect is preferred.
• Extensive experience in an Agile environment.
• Exceptional communication skills for working with clients and onsite and near-shore development teams.
• A passion for coding and staying up to date with new technologies, frameworks, and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams and manage key stakeholders across the engineering team, including Architects, Product Owners, and UX designers.
• Translate written requirements into technical solutions.
• Develop interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Produce high-quality, efficient, reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Collaborate with team members to define and communicate end-to-end architecture and functional and non-functional design.
• Take ownership of the front-end digital and software platform.
• Ensure use of our Agile process and framework.
• Champion best practices within the team, including TDD, code reviews, and pair programming.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.
• Design flexible and configurable software components.
• Produce well-designed, testable, maintainable, secure, and efficient code.

Technologies

• AWS
• Angular
• Architect
• Cloud
• Docker
• ES6
• GraphQL
• JavaScript
• Jest
• Mobile
• Oracle
• OutSystems
• React
• React Native
• Snowflake
• TDD
• Vue
• Web
• UX UI Design
• Embedded
• Frontend
• Java
• Security

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We are Version 1, a trusted technology services company with over 28 years of experience helping global brands succeed in a digital-first world. We partner with leading technology providers including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, and Snowflake, and we are a multi-award-winning employer with a strong focus on values, wellbeing, and career development. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including profit share, flexible and remote working, private healthcare, pension, wellbeing initiatives, generous leave, educational assistance, certifications, and recognition schemes, supporting our people across professional growth, financial stability, and work-life balance.

last updated 34 week of 2026