Lead Web Engineer, Marketing Platform

Phrase; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 Company holidays additional to your;

Christmas break

Job summary

Phrase is seeking a Senior Web Developer for the marketing site phrase.com, building with Next.js, Storyblok and Vercel from a shared Figma library. You’ll own the rebuilt site in multiple languages and collaborate with the Senior Web & SEO Manager to align engineering with marketing goals.

You’ll work with AI coding agents as a core daily workflow, maintain accessibility and performance checks, and evolve the component library while migrating content from WordPress.

Qualifications

• Proven senior-level, production experience with React and Next.js, including SSR/SSG and performance optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with a headless CMS.
• Storyblok strongly preferred, though Contentful, Sanity, or similar will be considered.
• Real, demonstrable fluency working with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot as a daily workflow.
• Strong working knowledge of technical SEO fundamentals.
• Experience migrating a live, multi-language marketing site to a new platform (desirable).
• WCAG / accessibility implementation experience (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical build of the new phrase.com site on Next.js, Storyblok, and Vercel, from the Figma library.
• Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding workflows as a core daily practice.
• Build and document a reusable Storyblok component library for non-developers to assemble pages.
• Migrate content from WordPress to Storyblok's content model.
• Implement redirects, hreflang, and staged rollout as planned by marketing leadership.
• Set up automated accessibility and performance checks (axe, Lighthouse) in CI.
• Own live site day-to-day: bug fixes, landing pages, content-model changes, integrations.
• Serve as marketing's primary technical contact for the site.
• Monitor site health (performance, uptime) and respond to issues.
• Evolve the component library and codebase for localization needs.

Skills

React

Next.js

SSR/SSG

Performance optimization

AI coding agents

TypeScript

English proficiency

Tools

Storyblok

Vercel

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Figma

axe/Lighthouse

WordPress

Job description

Phrase is seeking a Senior Web Developer for the marketing site phrase.com, building with Next.js, Storyblok and Vercel from a shared Figma library. You’ll own the rebuilt site in multiple languages and collaborate with the Senior Web & SEO Manager to align engineering with marketing goals.

You’ll work with AI coding agents as a core daily workflow, maintain accessibility and performance checks, and evolve the component library while migrating content from WordPress.