Lead Frontend Developer (3-6 month Contract)

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) is seeking a Lead Front End Developer to shape web products for renowned clients. You’ll lead the front end stack, collaborate with designers and back-end engineers, and drive responsive, accessible experiences using React and TypeScript.

You’ll mentor developers, define development strategies, and help evolve our AI-enabled tooling (Cursor) to accelerate delivery, while participating in agile ceremonies and code reviews to ensure quality and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in at least one of these areas: Typescript, React and ES6+.
• Knowledge and experience of tools and libraries (Redux, Redux TK, Zustand).
• Experience using REST APIs.
• Sass, Styled Components
• Responsive layout.
• Methodologies such as BEM.
• Semantic HTML5
• HTML5 features such as canvas and media elements.
• Browser APIs including geo-location support, local storage, session storage, web workers, and web sockets
• Experience of accessibility.
• Web Performance.
• Webpack/Vite/Rspack/Rsbuild/Rollup; Module Federation; Linting Version Control; GitLab
• TDD and Jest for testing

Responsibilities

• Work closely with account directors, creative, and the client directly to ensure projects are delivered on time
• Help define and execute the development strategy
• Mentor and develop other members of the team
• Implement and improve working practices
• Identifyand research emerging market trends to ensure you are always on top of your game
• Working in an Agile team to allow development of small, incremental released and rapid iteration
• Use of Cursor to accelerate delivery of high quality software with supporting tests and documentation; but also supporting the team by continuously improving our AI tools, skills and workflows
• Participation in sprint ceremonies such as planning, standups, and demonstrations
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality standards are upheld
• Estimation of tasks for a wide range of projects
• Lead Developers also act as Line managers for developers on the team, and should have experience of managing and mentoring employees

Skills

Typescript

React

ES6+

Redux

Redux TK

Zustand

REST APIs

Semantic HTML5

Canvas

Web Workers

WebSockets

Accessibility

Web Performance

Sass

Styled Components

Responsive layout

BEM

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Cursor

IntelliJ

VS Code

Testing (Jest)

TDD

Tools

Webpack

Vite

Rspack

Rsbuild

Rollup

Module Federation

Git (GitLab)

Lucid Charts

Job description

• Module Federation
• Linting Version Control

Our Digital Engineering team at ITG are responsible for building world class, enterprise grade digital applications for high profile brands. We pride ourselves in working with mature Agile methodologies and make use of the latest versions of technology. Our teams are structured in such a way that gives every employee the opportunity to learn new skills, work on various projects over time and see the results of your efforts in the online consumer marketplace. Joining the Digital Engineering function would see you work as part of a cross-functional, product style team, generally consisting of a Business Analyst, Scrum Master / Project Manager, Solution Architect, Lead Developers (FE and BE), Developers, and Testers (Manual and Automated).

ITG require a talented Lead Front End Developer to work on the development of a range of web based products and tools.

Lead Front End Developers are responsible for building and maintaining a range of websites for our clients. We work with digital creatives to deliver responsive, web based projects ranging from content managed web sites, to SPAs such as finance calculators, configurators and ecommerce applications.

At ITG, Lead Front End Developers work with a variety of tools and frameworks. Many of our projects use React, while others are based on vanilla JavaScript. We use modern tools, frameworks and IDEs, and work in agile sprint teams alongside business analysts, backend developers, QA testers and scrum masters.

Lead Developers are active members of the development team, specialising in Front End Development but also working on projects using technologies with whichthey may be unfamiliar.

We integrate AI tooling across the full development lifecycle — from business analysis and architecture through to design, QA, and code delivery. Lead Frontend Developers use AI coding assistants (primarily Cursor) as a core part of daily workflow, not as an optional extra. It is important that developers understand how to use AI effectively and where its limitations lie.

Lead Developers lead from a technology standpoint, but also support, mentor and develop other members of the team.

Responsibilities:

What software, code and frameworks will I be working with?

Javascript / Typescript

• Knowledge and experience in at least one of these areas: Typescript, React and ES6+.
• Knowledge and experience of tools and libraries (Redux, Redux TK, Zustand).
• Experience using REST APIs.

CSS

• Sass, Styled Components
• Responsive layout.
• Methodologies such as BEM.

HTML

• Semantic HTML5
• HTML5 features such as canvas and media elements.
• Browser APIs including geo-location support, local storage, session storage, web workers, and web sockets
• Experience of accessibility.
• Web Performance.

Build Tools/Bundlers

• Webpack/Vite/Rspack/Rsbuild/Rollup
• Module Federation
• Linting Version Control
• Git (GitLab)

Testing

• TDD
• Testing frameworks/libraries (i.e. Jest)

Supporting Tools:

• IntelliJ IDEs
• VS Code
• JIRA
• Confluence
• GitLab pipelines
• Lucid Charts
• Agentic AI assistance from Cursor

An idea of the day to day?

• Work closely with account directors, creative, and the client directly to ensure projects are delivered on time
• Help define and execute the development strategy
• Mentor and develop other members of the team
• Implement and improve working practices
• Identifyand research emerging market trends to ensure you are always on top of your game
• Working in an Agile team to allow development of small, incremental released and rapid iteration
• Use of Cursor to accelerate delivery of high quality software with supporting tests and documentation; but also supporting the team by continuously improving our AI tools, skills and workflows
• Participation in sprint ceremonies such as planning, standups, and demonstrations
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality standards are upheld
• Estimation of tasks for a wide range of projects
• Lead Developers also act as Line managers for developers on the team, and should have experience of managing and mentoring employees

This role is all about working with others to solve technical challenges. As such the candidate must have exceptional communication skills, both written and oral, and should demonstrate experience of writing technical documentation - including the ability to craft clear, unambiguous prompts for AI tools.

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we're always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups available to employees and exist to offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other.