Frontend Engineer

Project Global Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Global Limited is seeking a Frontend Engineer for a hybrid role based in the UK (Leeds/Manchester/London). The candidate will work within the IDP Lab, shaping stories and tasks, and delivering secure, automated testing and scalable frontend components using React and TypeScript.

Responsibilities include leading frontend development, contributing to the internal developer portal, and mentoring peers while ensuring robust live support and documentation.

Qualifications

• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript in web apps.
• Strong understanding of security best practices in CI/CD.
• Experience with end-to-end automated testing and REST API integration.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive features for the internal developer portal.
• Contribute to lab and platform roadmaps for integrated solutions.
• Develop frontend applications within React/JS or TS and contribute code regularly.
• Lead technical conversations with stakeholders and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure live support and build in supportability for the app.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Testing

CI/CD

REST APIs

GitHub

Azure

GCP

End-to-end testing

Tools

Jest/React Testing Library

Playwright

Selenium

Job description

Frontend Enginee

Job Reference Number: PG1

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Frontend Engineer to be based at their client's office in Leeds / Manchester / London, UK.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Leeds / Manchester / London office 2-3 days per week .

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start asap

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

The Role

The work will be within the IDP Lab and will involve shaping Stories and Tasks within agreed features then performing Software and Infrastructure as code secure development, testing (largely automated) and implementation. In addition, Service support is number 1 priority in the bank and any successful candidate must be prepared to support the system in terms of helping customers, resolving incidents and providing long term problem fixes.

In detail the candidates will

• Own, lead and drive an aspect or feature of our internal developer portal via the Jira Align framework
• Contribute to the lab & platform roadmap to develop integrated solutions.
• For the Front end Roles - Contribute to the design and build of our Internal Developer Platform ecosystem building frontend applications within the React Framework in JavaScript or Typescript.
• Be hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example.
• Be comfortable prototyping and developing reusable components, writing automated test scripts, performing code reviews and creating technical documentation.
• Be proficient in leading technical conversations with collaborators of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts.
• Collaborate across internal, external, and 3rd party teams, working closely with the other members of the team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of shared code libraries and collaborate with other technology teams.
• Provide leadership, education and mentoring to support junior colleagues and different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling.
• High focus on live support and building supportability into the application in our day to day work

Key Responsibilities

• Extensive experience in writing frontend applications within the React Framework in JavaScript or Typescript
• Applied understanding of security best practises including secrets management, building into a CICD workflow
• Experience creating end-to-end automation testing as part of a release framework using common industry tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Integrating RESTful APIs in frontend Applications
• Building and maintaining CICD pipelines
• Applied familiarity with industry tools, NodeJS, Git/GitHub, Jest/React testing Library.

Key Requirements

Essential Skills:

• JavaScript/TypeScript, React JS, Node JS
• Jest Unit Testing & automated Functional Testing (e.g. Playwright, Cypress)
• Experience building and deploying applications to Cloud (Azure & GCP)
• Git / GitHub

Desirable Skils:

• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes. PostgreSQL. DevOps, Backstage

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone.