Senior Front End Engineer - React

Boost Talent ltd; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boost Talent ltd is recruiting a Senior Front End Engineer for an internationally recognised organisation. You will join a collaborative product engineering team to deliver customer-facing and internal platforms worldwide, designing high-performance user experiences and contributing across the full software delivery lifecycle.

The role operates on a hybrid model with two days per week in the Croydon office, requiring collaboration across cross-functional teams including designers and analysts.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building front-end applications with React.
• Experience with modern front-end architectures and UI design.
• Exposure to Node.js/Express development.
• Ability to work across multiple technologies over a single framework.
• Understanding of customer-facing web apps and digital products.
• Experience with DynamoDB and PostgreSQL databases.
• Appreciation of UX and user-centred design.
• Figma collaboration tooling experience.
• Strong testing mindset and commitment to quality.
• Experience working in cloud environments, ideally AWS.
• Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver customer-facing and internal platforms used by analysts and clients worldwide.
• Design and develop intuitive, high-performance user experiences.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, business analysts and stakeholders.
• Own solutions across the full software delivery lifecycle.

Skills

React

Front-end development

Node.js

Express

Multiple technologies

Databases

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

UX principles

Figma

Testing mindset

AWS

Tools

AWS

Job description

We are recruiting on behalf of an internationally recognised intelligence, information and technology organisation that combines deep domain expertise with cutting-edge software engineering to deliver market-leading digital products.

As a Senior Front End Engineer, you will join a collaborative product engineering team responsible for delivering customer-facing and internal platforms used by analysts and clients worldwide. You will play a key role in designing and developing intuitive, high-performance user experiences while contributing across the full software delivery lifecycle.

The team values engineers who are passionate about technology, enjoy working across different disciplines and can contribute beyond front end development. You'll collaborate closely with engineers, designers, business analysts and stakeholders to build secure, scalable and user-centric applications using modern technologies.

This role follows a hybrid working model, with two days per week in the Croydon office.

Skills Required

• Strong commercial experience developing applications with React.
• Experience building modern front end applications and user interfaces.
• Exposure to Node.js and Express development.
• Experience working across multiple technologies rather than specialising in a single framework.
• Understanding of customer-facing web applications and digital products.
• Experience working with databases such as DynamoDB and PostgreSQL.
• Appreciation of UX principles and user-centred design practices.
• Experience using design and collaboration tools such as Figma.
• Strong testing mindset and focus on software quality.
• Experience working within cloud-based environments, ideally AWS.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within cross-functional engineering teams.
• Comfortable owning solutions throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

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