Lead Frontend Developer — AI-Driven React Platforms

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

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.