Lead Frontend Engineer – AI-Driven Web Apps

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

ITG’s Digital Engineering team is seeking a Lead Front End Developer to shape and deliver enterprise web applications for high-profile brands. You’ll work with React, TypeScript, and modern tooling, while mentoring others and guiding frontend strategy within an Agile environment.

You’ll collaborate across cross-functional teams, embracing Cursor AI assistance to accelerate delivery, ensure accessibility, and maintain high performance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in TypeScript/React and building SPAs or enterprise web apps.
• Strong knowledge of ES6+ features and modern frontend tooling.
• Experience consuming REST APIs and building accessible, high-performance UIs.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and TDD/testing frameworks like Jest.
• Mentoring and leading other developers within Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with account dire ctors, creatives, and clients to deliver on time.
• Define and execute the frontend development strategy across projects.
• Mentor and develop junior team members and set best practices.
• Implement and improve working practices, processes and AI-assisted tooling.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and apply insights to projects.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, perform code reviews, and estimate tasks.
• Lead developers to manage and grow the frontend team.

Skills

Typescript

React

ES6+

REST APIs

JavaScript

Web Accessibility

Web Performance

AI tooling (Cursor)

Mentoring

Agile

Communication

Tools

Webpack

Vite

Rspack

Rollup

Module Federation

Redux

Redux Toolkit

Zustand

GitLab

Git

VS Code

IntelliJ

JIRA

Confluence

Lucid Charts

Job description

ITG’s Digital Engineering team is seeking a Lead Front End Developer to shape and deliver enterprise web applications for high-profile brands. You’ll work with React, TypeScript, and modern tooling, while mentoring others and guiding frontend strategy within an Agile environment.

You’ll collaborate across cross-functional teams, embracing Cursor AI assistance to accelerate delivery, ensure accessibility, and maintain high performance.