Front-End Developer

Focus Group; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Group is seeking a Front-End Developer to join our hybrid UK team across Shoreham, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Manchester and Whiteley. This is not a maintenance role; you’ll help build a design system and component library from the ground up, working with Tailwind CSS with real creative input alongside our designers, not just implementing someone else’s spec line by line.

You’ll translate Figma designs into production-ready code, own front-end templates in Statamic CMS, ensure

Qualifications

• Strong commercial front-end experience with real UX/UI sensibility.
• Experience turning Figma designs into pixel-accurate front-end code.
• Proficiency with Tailwind CSS and modern front-end tooling.
• Experience with Statamic CMS (Antlers/Blade templating) and version control.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain responsive, accessible front-end templates and components using Statamic CMS (Antlers/Blade).
• Translate Figma designs into production-ready Tailwind CSS.
• Develop and own a design system and component library for site-wide consistency.
• Optimize performance: page speed, Core Web Vitals, image and asset optimization.
• Ensure clean, documented code with Git version control.

Skills

Tailwind CSS

UX/UI sensibility

Figma to code

Front-end development

Git

Statamic CMS

Performance optimization

Tools

Antlers/Blade templating

Git workflows

Job description

Focus Group I Hybrid Any UK Office - Shoreham, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Manchester, Whiteley

We're mid-way through a full website rebuild, and we need a Front-End Developer who genuinely cares about the details. This isn't a maintenance role. You'll be helping to build the design system and component library from the ground up, Working in Tailwind CSS with real creative input alongside our designers, not just implementing someone else's spec line by line.

About Focus Group

Focus Group powers the digital workplace for over 30,000 UK businesses. We're a £1bn-valued tech scale-up with 1,300+ employees across 20 offices, covering telecoms, IT, cyber security and mobile — and we're still growing fast. That means real investment in projects like this one, and real opportunity for the people building them.

What you'll be doing

• Building and maintaining responsive, accessible front-end templates and components in Statamic CMS (Antlers/Blade templating)
• Turning Figma designs into pixel-accurate, production-ready Tailwind CSS
• Building and owning a design system and component library that keeps the whole site consistent
• Optimising for performance — page speed, Core Web Vitals, image and asset optimisation
• Getting hands-on with the details that make a UI feel right: spacing, typography, interaction states, animations
• Building flexible, editor-friendly page blocks that our content and marketing teams can actually use
• Keeping code clean, documented, and version-controlled in Git

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial front-end experience, with a track record that shows real UX/UI sensibility — not just code that works, but interfaces that feel right
• Experince with Tailwind CSS preffered — you build efficiently and consistently without reaching for custom CSS out of habit
• A genuine grasp of UX/UI principles: layout, hierarchy, accessibility (WCAG), responsive and interaction design
• Experience turning Figma designs into pixel-accurate front-end code
• Understanding of front-end performance and Core Web Vitals
• Comfortable with Git and collaborative version control workflows

Focus Group is at the stage where we're investing in building properly, not just keeping the lights on. This role exists because of that — it's new, it's got real creative scope, and it's yours to define rather than slot into.