Lead Frontend Engineer - Real-Time UI & Design System

Reelables; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Reelables, based near Angel in North London, seeks a frontend-focused product engineer to own customer-facing interfaces for tracking, alerts and analytics. You’ll shape next‑gen web apps, including the shared component library and design system, and work with real-time IoT data to deliver value to customers.

You will build production-grade UI in TypeScript/React, collaborate with platform engineers on APIs, and mentor others in a lean, shipping‑oriented team with accessibility in mind.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building production web apps with TypeScript and React.
• Experience building or contributing to a component library or design system.
• Comfort working with APIs and data: read an API, shape the data a UI needs, and debug across the boundary.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD and production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing features end to end from problem understanding to production.
• Turn real-time IoT data into clear, fast interfaces.
• Build features across tracking, alerts, analytics and reporting.
• Engage with customers to understand pain points and shape solutions.
• Develop new React web apps to replace existing Vue apps.
• Design and grow the shared component library and design system.
• Set patterns for state management, data fetching, testing and performance.
• Use AI coding tools effectively while maintaining UI consistency.
• Write production-ready code with testing, accessibility and error handling.
• Collaborate with platform engineers on APIs and adjust as needed (Node.js, TypeScript on AWS).
• Ship rapidly in a lean team and iterate based on usage.
• Mentor others and shape engineering practices as we grow.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Component library

Design system

APIs

CI/CD

Testing

UI/UX

Tools

Vue

Node.js

AWS

Job description

Reelables, based near Angel in North London, seeks a frontend-focused product engineer to own customer-facing interfaces for tracking, alerts and analytics. You’ll shape next‑gen web apps, including the shared component library and design system, and work with real-time IoT data to deliver value to customers.

You will build production-grade UI in TypeScript/React, collaborate with platform engineers on APIs, and mentor others in a lean, shipping‑oriented team with accessibility in mind.