Front-end Developer (React)

Cavendish; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communications consultancy in Birmingham seeks a skilled Frontend Developer to join their team focusing on building and maintaining the SaaS web platform, Cavendish Insights. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript, work well with PHP/Laravel, and have a strong attention to detail. The company fosters a diverse and inclusive culture, ensuring all talented individuals are welcome to apply.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Access to mentorship

Industry leading allocation of paid time off

Private Medical Insurance

Regular social and team-building events

Paid time off to volunteer for a charity

Qualifications

• Proven experience building scalable frontend solutions with React.
• Expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Tailwind.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot code.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the Cavendish Insights software.
• Work with a close-knit team of skilled software developers.
• Integrate with PHP/Laravel backend API.

Skills

Frontend solutions with React

HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript

Problem-solving skills

Version control with Git

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Vite

Tailwind

shadcn

Lighthouse

Laravel

PHP

Job description

Birmingham

Permanent.

Full time 37.5 hours.

What we’re all about:

Cavendish is all about talented people, delivering excellent results for our clients. We are a multi-award-winning, PR Week Top 150 communications consultancy, ranked No 1 in PR Week’s UK Public Affairs consultancy rankings and recognised at PRCA National Awards 2025 as Large Consultancy of the Year.

Across our 12 strategically located UK and Ireland offices, Cavendish brings together industry-specialist communications to provide integrated solutions for clients and limitless development opportunities for our people.

We believe in sourcing talent from diverse backgrounds, nurturing a company culture that leads to a strong work life balance, and strengthening it by providing great learning and development opportunities.

What you will get from us:

You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to the next level, working with dynamic, talented people in a fast paced and expanding organisation. Alongside a competitive salary, we provide extensive training and development opportunities and an industry leading benefits package including:

• A flexible, hybrid working model.
• Access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry
• Industry leading allocation of paid time off
• Private Medical Insurance
• Regular social and teambuilding events
• Paid time off to volunteer for a charity.
  
  

What we are looking for:

• Proven professional experience building scalable and highly performant frontend solutions with React and libraries from the ecosystem (Vite, RTK/Query) with a focus on state management
• Expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and Tailwind
• Experience with both object-oriented and functional programming paradigms
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and debug code
• Version control with Git
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to relay technical information to both technical and non-technical peers
• A proven track record of delivering high-quality software
• Ability to work well autonomously and collaborate as part of a team
• Great attention to detail and focus on user experience and accessibility principles
• Have an appetite for taking on challenges and leveraging new technologies
  
  

What would be desirable:

• Knowledge of shadcn, Leaflet JS and dashboarding libraries
• Knowledge of auditing tools such as Lighthouse
• Knowledge of Laravel and PHP
• Knowledge of database systems, both relational and non-relational
  
  

What you’ll need to do:

You will be part of a close-knit team of skilled software developers focused on building and maintaining the Cavendish Insights software, a SaaS web platform, used both internally within the business and externally by our diverse client base. The platform has a wide range of features including API data ingestion, aggregation and analytics, insight generation and dashboarding, reporting and notifications, AI Data processing, social media integrations and much more.

You will primarily use React and JavaScript/TypeScript on a daily basis, integrating with our PHP/Laravel backend API.

Equal Opportunities

Our vision is to be a truly diverse and inclusive workplace that enables us to attract and retain a diverse workforce, representative of our clients and community. For this reason, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of qualifications and experience in industry and from all persons, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

Everyone stands to benefit when we embrace and value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and ways of working that people from different backgrounds, experiences and identities bring to an organisation.

We are a disability confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application and interview stages, please email [e-mail].