Front End Developer

WEBRECRUIT; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charitable organization in the UK is seeking a Front End Developer to create exceptional user experiences across its digital platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern React. You'll be building feature-rich applications and implementing best practices for usability and accessibility. This permanent, full-time role includes a salary of £43,042 and various benefits, including flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Up to 6% matched pension contributions

Flexible working arrangements

Cycle to work scheme

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience developing web applications for internal teams and external customers.
• Proven experience building complex web applications with Next.js.
• Expertise in JavaScript and modern React, including Hooks, Context API.

Responsibilities

• Create exceptional user experiences across digital platforms.
• Build web applications for staff and service users.
• Implement automated UI testing.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Usability best practices

Accessibility

Tools

Tailwind CSS

Job description

Overview

Front End Developer – Home-Based (within the UK)

The Organisation

Our client transforms lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation.

They are now looking for a Front End Developer to join their team on a permanent, full-time basis, working 37 hours per week.

The Benefits

• Salary of £43,042 per annum (inclusive of £1,044 market supplement and £480 home working allowance)
• An annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays
• Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
• Flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
• Enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
• Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

This is the ideal role for a Software Engineer with front-end experience gained with web applications, JavaScript or TypeScript and modern React to advance their career in a meaningful way with our client’s leading, vital charity.

As a critical member of the team, you’ll have the chance to innovate, drive your skills forward and build user-facing solutions to be proud of. Your work will directly contribute to the delivery of our client’s services, meaning that you will be making an impact every day.

What’s more, they are dedicated to developing their staff and team and will ensure you grow with your role and as technology evolves, making this the right choice for now and the future.

The Role

As a Front End Developer, you will focus on creating exceptional user experiences across our client’s digital estate.

Building web applications for staff and service users, you will seek to elevate performance to better support users and enable teams to provide services that support hundreds of thousands of people across the UK.

Specifically, you will create applications that are feature-rich and easy to use and understand, incorporating responsive user interfaces using React/Next.js. You’ll use TypeScript and Tailwind CSS coupled with organisational branding for style, and insights from user analytics and behaviour tracking tools to ensure our client is meeting expectations.

Additionally, you’ll implement automated UI testing to ensure everything works as it should and delivers the performance they require to meet their obligations.

About You

To be considered as a Front End Developer, you will need:

• Significant experience developing web applications for internal teams and external customers
• Proven experience building complex web applications with Next.js
• Expertise in JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern React, including Hooks, Context API, Server and Client Components
• The ability to implement best practices in usability, accessibility and inclusive design

Other organisations may call this role Web Developer, JavaScript Developer, Front End Programmer, UI Developer, Web Application Developer, Applications Developer, or App Developer.

The closing date for this role is the 9th November 2025.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Our client’s commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

Our client is happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. They also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

Our client is committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that they do and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to them and they particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because they are committed to increasing the representation of these groups. They know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for their workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities they support. They offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel costs if you attend an interview in person.

So, if you are ready to advance your career in an engaging and exciting manner as a Front End Developer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.