Lead Front-End Engineer - Remote & Flexible

Ad Warrior Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

Blue Light Card discounts

27 days annual leave + bank holidays

Career development opportunities

Job summary

NICE is seeking a Lead Front-End Developer in Manchester to lead the design and delivery of secure, accessible web applications used by millions. You will mentor engineers, drive modern frontend practices, and work within an agile, multidisciplinary team alongside designers and backend colleagues.

Essential expertise includes leadership, accessibility, and modern JS frameworks (React, NextJs, Vite, Nuqs). The role includes line-management and technical decision-making with a 12.5% recruitment

Qualifications

• Proven and demonstrated experience leading a technical team through all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Proven and demonstrated experience in building accessible interfaces that work for as many users as possible, regardless of their needs.
• Proven and demonstrated expereince of modern JavaScript, including libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJs, Vite, Nuqs.
• Proven and demonstrated experience of using testing frameworks to validate software solutions.
• Proven and demonstrated experience building robust, cross-browser and cross-device user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build of robust, secure, front end web applications.
• Line-manage engineering team colleagues; writing maintainable, and well tested code using modern front end technologies such as React, NextJs, Vite, Nuqs.
• Work collaboratively as part of an Agile, multidisciplinary delivery team.
• Ensuring services meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and follow NICE and GDS best practice.
• Participating in code reviews, ensuring that engineering standards are unheld.
• Play an active part in knowledge sharing and mentoring activities.
• Supporting live services and helping identify and resolve technical issues.
• Working with the wider engineering team to prototype, evaluate and integrate emerging technologies such as generative AI into secure, reusable and production ready front end components.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Agile

Accessibility

Tools

React

NextJs

Vite

Nuqs

Job description

NICE is seeking a Lead Front-End Developer in Manchester to lead the design and delivery of secure, accessible web applications used by millions. You will mentor engineers, drive modern frontend practices, and work within an agile, multidisciplinary team alongside designers and backend colleagues.

Essential expertise includes leadership, accessibility, and modern JS frameworks (React, NextJs, Vite, Nuqs). The role includes line-management and technical decision-making with a 12.5% recruitment