Senior Front End Engineer

djr; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS company in Central Manchester is seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to join their product-led engineering team. This role involves designing and building modern front-end applications using React, developing scalable UI components, and ensuring high-quality user experiences. With competitive salary and hybrid working conditions, this is a key opportunity to influence UI architecture in an enterprise-scale environment. Strong commercial experience with React and modern JavaScript is essential.

Benefits

Competitive salary up to £70k

Hybrid working model

Long-term stability with modern engineering practices

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building front-end applications with React.
• Solid understanding of modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and asynchronous data flows.
• Familiarity with front-end testing approaches and tooling.
• Experience working in Agile, product-focused engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build modern front-end applications using React.
• Develop scalable, reusable UI components and design systems.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers for user experiences.
• Integrate front-end applications with complex back-end APIs.
• Ensure performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Contribute to front-end standards and best practices.

Skills

React

Modern JavaScript (ES6+)

HTML

CSS

RESTful APIs

Agile methodologies

Attention to detail

Job description

Senior Front-End Engineer (React)

Enterprise SaaS Platform | Central Manchester | Hybrid (2 days onsite)

Location

Central Manchester (Hybrid working – 2 days per week onsite)

Salary

Up to £70,000

The Opportunity

Our client is a well-established, enterprise-scale SaaS organisation undergoing a significant period of digital platform evolution. Their products support high-volume, business-critical workflows used daily by customers across multiple markets.

The front-end function plays a key role in shaping how users interact with complex systems, and this hire is part of a wider investment in building modern, scalable, and performant user interfaces . This is an opportunity to join a product-led engineering environment where front-end is treated as a core discipline, not a supporting function.

You will work closely with Product, UX, Back-End and Platform teams to deliver intuitive, high-quality experiences that balance usability with enterprise-grade performance and reliability.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building modern front-end applications using React
• Developing scalable, reusable UI components and design systems
• Collaborating with Product Managers and Designers to translate requirements into high-quality user experiences
• Integrating front-end applications with complex back-end APIs
• Ensuring performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
• Contributing to front-end standards, tooling, and best practices
• Supporting and mentoring more junior engineers where appropriate

Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience building front-end applications with React
• Solid understanding of modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML and CSS
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and asynchronous data flows
• Familiarity with front-end testing approaches and tooling
• Experience working in Agile, product-focused engineering teams
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on performance and usability

Experience with TypeScript, state management libraries, or modern front-end build tooling is advantageous.

Why Join

• Enterprise SaaS platform with real-world complexity and scale
• Front-end engineering is a strategic investment area
• Hybrid working with a collaborative Manchester-based team
• Competitive salary up to £70k
• Clear scope to influence UI architecture and product direction
• Long-term stability combined with modern engineering practices