Engineer - Front End React/Next.js

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Edinburgh seeks a proactive Software Engineer skilled in React and Next.js to join the Client Technology Engineering team. Responsibilities include developing high-quality web applications and collaborating across teams to enhance user experiences. Competitive benefits include generous leave, pension contributions, and private healthcare.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in React.js and Next.js.
• Experience with TypeScript and SSJS.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD processes and tools.
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain modern web applications using React and Next.js.
• Build reusable UI components and document them using Storybook.
• Ensure all front-end code meets accessibility standards.
• Implement SEO best practices, including meta tags.

Skills

React.js

Next.js

TypeScript

Cloud services (Azure)

CI/CD processes

Web accessibility standards

SEO strategies

Tools

Storybook

Job description

Overview

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is a strategic priority, and we strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people put stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand, with an emphasis on excellent client service supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses — interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser — each focusing on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs.

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

The Client Technology team at Aberdeen focuses on delivering exceptional experiences for colleagues and clients by placing them at the centre of everything we do. The Technology function drives the strategic direction and management of all IT systems, including system design, programming, network and budget planning, database management, and operations. The Application Development & Support area develops and maintains all internal and external applications, while the Web, Mobile, and Front End team ensures seamless user experiences through expert design and support of distributed, object-oriented systems.

About the Role

We’re looking for a proactive and skilled Software Engineer with strong experience in React, Next.js, and modern front-end tooling to join our Client Technology Engineering team. You’ll be responsible for building high-quality, scalable web applications that span across multiple digital products, including those integrated into a broader technology ecosystem. In the client technology team we strive to give our colleagues and clients an exceptional experience, and we focus on putting them at the heart of what we do.

This role involves working with a cloud-native front-end platform optimised for performance, edge delivery, and seamless integration with marketing and content systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain modern web applications using React and Next.js
• Build reusable UI components and document them using Storybook
• Ensure all front-end code meets accessibility standards (WCAG) and delivers inclusive user experiences
• Implement SEO best practices, including meta tags, structured data (schemas), and performance optimization
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and marketing teams to deliver seamless user journeys across multiple web-based solutions
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment
• Work with a modern front-end hosting platform that supports edge functions, serverless APIs, and global CDN

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Strong proficiency in React.js and Next.js, and experience with TypeScript and SSJS
• Experience with cloud services such as Azure, especially for package management (e.g., Azure Artifacts)
• Experience with Storybook for component development and documentation
• Solid understanding of CI/CD processes and tools
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility standards and best practices
• Experience implementing SEO strategies and structured data (JSON-LD schemas)
• Ability to proactively identify and solve problems

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.

We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense and welcome enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.