Frontend Developer - React

JR United Kingdom; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Frontend Developer with strong experience in React and a range of web development tools. This contract role involves creating a new application to improve treasury operations, focusing on automation and efficiency. Ideal candidates will have expertise in performance-driven frontend development, secure applications, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing complex and performant web frontends.
• Strong knowledge of frontend development tools.
• Experience with secure coding standards.

Responsibilities

• Involved in the end-to-end development of a new application for treasury operations.
• Automate workflows for processing payments and increase efficiency.
• Build features to aid scalability for future needs.

Skills

Frontend development

Node.js

Webpack

Git

Cypress

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Frontend Developer - React, preston, lancashire

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Client:

Insight Global

Location:

preston, lancashire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

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Job Description:

Insight Global is looking for a React Developer to join one of the largest financial services clients globally for a ongoing contract that will go on until end of year. The chosen candidate will be sitting in the Corporate Treasury team and be directly involved in the build of a net new application used by the operation teams within treasury. The purpose of this application is to automate previously manual workflows followed in processing payments for the firm as well as creating a one-stop application for all workflows to flow through as well as track and hence increase efficiency and reliability across the users as a whole. This project is at the beginning phase of development and hence the chosen candidate will be heavily involved in the end-to-end development of this application. That said, the chosen candidate must have strong hands-on experience with coding and developing net new features related to the use cases to aid with scalability for now and in the future.

Qualifications:

• Experience in developing and delivering complex and performant web frontends supporting multiple role-based access levels.
• Frontend development and build tools such as Node.js, Babel, Vite, Webpack, NPM, and Nx.
• Web / JS testing tools such as Cypress, Vitest and Puppeteer.
• Experience building secure web applications and aware of secure coding standards.
• Familiarity with source control and CI/CD tools such as Git, SVN, GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub.
• Strong technical, analytical, and communication skills.

Plusses:

• Implementing real-time UI updates using reactive protocols such as WebSockets, SSE.
• Micro-services, micro-frontends, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and container-based deployment, dashboards, cloud application development, and automated regression testing.
• Experience in payment systems, financial services, or Fintech.