Senior Frontend Engineer

LOUNGE; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lounge in Solihull is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to shape our omnichannel fashion platform. This hybrid role requires 2 days in the Solihull office, with you owning core frontend areas and mentoring other engineers.

You'll work with React, TypeScript, Shopify, Liquid, Tailwind CSS, and AWS, collaborating closely with Product, UI/UX, and e-commerce teams to craft seamless customer journeys.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building modern frontend applications in production.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, Shopify, and Jest.
• Solid knowledge of Node.js and NestJS.
• Familiarity with commerce and composable architecture.
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain frontend applications powering customer experiences.
• Take ownership of key product areas from discovery to delivery.
• Collaborate with Product, UI/UX, and e‑commerce teams on journeys.
• Contribute to frontend architecture and coding standards.
• Mentor others through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Communicate ideas effectively through whiteboarding and presentations.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Testing practices

Mentoring

Agile teamwork

UI/UX collaboration

Code reviews

Performance

TDD

Cloud services

Tools

Shopify

Liquid

Tailwind CSS

Storybook

Vite

esbuild

Rollup

NestJS

Node.js

AWS

Job description

Location: Solihull (Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office)

The Lounge team is growing.

Since 2015, Lounge has evolved from an eCommerce underwear brand, built on Comfort Made Sexy, into an omnichannel modern fashion house, inspiring women to feel empowered, beautiful, sexy, and comfortable in their own skin.

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help shape the next phase of that journey.

As a Senior, you’ll be a key technical contributor, owning significant product areas, influencing frontend architecture, and mentoring other engineers. You’ll work closely with the Head of Engineering and your peers on complex projects, new technologies, and continual improvement of our platform and practices.

As an Engineering team at Lounge:

• We treat many aspects of e-commerce as a science and act accordingly.
• We give you time and space to innovate rather than simply maximise output.
• We hire experts and passionate people who are comfortable speaking up and teaching others.
• We buy rather than build commodity software we’re not here to reinvent HR systems.
• We think big and bet big when we find a meaningful opportunity, we commit and act.
• We believe we’ll win by sustainably out-innovating our competition, backed by strong engineering practices (TDD, CI/CD, functional techniques, and whatever comes next).

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Lounge, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain frontend applications that power our customer experiences.
• Take ownership of key product areas, from discovery through to delivery and iteration.
• Collaborate daily with Product, UI/UX, and e-commerce teams to create seamless customer journeys.
• Contribute to the evolution of our frontend architecture and coding standards.
• Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Facilitate technical discussions and contribute to solution design, clearly communicating ideas through whiteboarding and presentations.
• Work with modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, Shopify, Liquid, and Tailwind CSS.
• Use tools like Storybook to develop modular, scalable, and reusable UI components.
• Leverage cloud services (primarily AWS) and help evolve our commerce / composable architecture.
• Champion best practices to ensure quality at speed (testing, performance, maintainability).
• Integrate frontend with backend services, drawing on your knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as NestJS.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining modern frontend applications in production.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, Shopify, and Jest.
• Solid knowledge of Node.js and ideally NestJS.
• Familiarity with commerce and composable architecture.
• A strong grounding in automated testing practices.
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, and contributing to a healthy team culture.
• Experience working in cross-functional, agile product teams
• Previous experience in a Software Engineering role (e.g. Frontend, Full-stack).
• Exposure to different types of organisations – from start-ups/scale-ups to larger enterprises.
• An understanding of AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Vite, esbuild, and Rollup.
• (Nice to have) Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.

Ways of working

Hybrid working – 2 days in Solihull

Collaboration is at the heart of how we work. While online tools help a lot, there’s nothing quite like gathering around the same keyboard or whiteboard in our Solihull office. For that reason, we ask developers to be in the office 2 days per week, with flexibility around how the rest of the week looks.

Why Lounge?

As our engineering team grows, you’ll have the opportunity to grow with it, in scope, ownership, and impact, within a young, fast-paced, and ever-evolving brand.