Senior JavaScript Engineer

CareScribe; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Parental leave (up to 16 weeks)

Pension contribution 5%

Sick pay

Wellbeing support

Learning allowance £250

Work-from-office dog-friendly

Team socials

Charity donations

Job summary

CareScribe is recruiting for a Frontend Engineer to help broaden our feature set and evolve our product offering. You’ll work closely with Product & Design, own features from development through QA and deployment, and contribute to shaping engineering processes.

Join a growing team in a hybrid setup with 2 days a week in Bristol. We value accessibility, user experience, and delivering high-quality software that makes a difference.

Qualifications

• Expertise in TypeScript/React-based frontend architecture.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and WCAG best practices.
• Experience with state management (Redux) and frontend testing.
• Ability to mentor peers and contribute to engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Help broaden features and roadmap alignment; contribute to design/refinement with Product & Design.
• Own features end-to-end from implementation to QA and deployment; lead code reviews.
• Drive improvements in development processes and team collaboration.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Redux

CSS modules

Accessibility (WCAG)

Testing

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Electron

Web sockets

Media streams

Node

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Salary: £53,000 – £60,000 depending on experience (rising to £67,000 as you develop in the role)

Location: Hybrid, with at least 2 days per week in our Bristol office

At CareScribe, we're building the foundations for more inclusive, neurodiverse-friendly spaces. Our ambition is to become a trusted partner for organisations, combining technology, knowledge, and enablement to make inclusion work in real life, every day - not just through individual adjustments, but through systems, tools, and confidence that scale.

Everything we build is grounded in real user needs and lived experiences, and we believe trust is earned through genuine adoption and measurable outcomes. We're recently PE-backed and moving from start-up to scale-up, expanding beyond the UK and growing from a single product into a wider platform.

A Note from the Hiring Manager

Hi, I'm Jack, Lead Frontend Engineer

We're growing the team, currently three seniors and a mid, and this new role will be a valuable addition.

You won't be walking into this alone. Everyone's been here two to three years plus, and you'll have wider Engineering behind you too.

We care deeply about accessibility and user experience. We’d love to find someone who’s curious about our tech stack (there aren’t many people out there who write sagas!) and who’s keen to integrate with our processes. You’ll be joining a group of good folks who bring their best to ship quality software that makes a difference.

If you enjoy solving genuinely tricky frontend problems and want a real say in how we build, I'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

You’ll be coming on board to assist with our aims of broadening the scope of what we ship, adding new features, supporting new use cases, and helping the company evolve its product offering.

What You'll Be Doing

The SDLC at CareScribe is a dialogue, so you’ll be involved from the start. Expect to have close contact with the Product & Design team throughout, participate extensively in the ticket creation and writing process in refinement and estimation meetings at the start, as well as joining sprint retros and planning, and presenting work in sprint reviews at the end.

You’ll spend much of your day working on features that support our roadmap, and reviewing the work of others. You’ll have ownership of your features & fixes, being responsible for driving the work through code review and QA steps, deploying to prod, and communicating to the rest of the business when work has been released.

You will also have an important role to play in shaping the team, thinking about how we can go about improving our processes, and supporting those around you.

At CareScribe, everyone is always willing to help, so you’ll always find someone available to support you, and equally you will be available to support others, whether from inside or outside of the engineering department.

About You

You'll likely be a great fit if you are very familiar with:

• TypeScript
• React
• Redux (or other state management)
• CSS (we use SCSS modules)
• Accessibility practices (WCAG)
• Testing frontend code (unit testing, e.g. Jest/bun test/vitest; e2e testing, e.g. Cypress or Playwright)
• Mentoring or supporting the growth of other engineers

Bonus if you are familiar with:

• Electron (or other desktop app packages)
• Web sockets
• Media streams and recorders
• Node (or other backend JS runtimes)
• CI/CD pipelines for frontend deployment

We use React principally as a view layer, with almost all side effects handled by Redux Sagas, state management in Redux, CSS in modules collocated with components but no CSS-in-JS, build our applications as SPAs housed within Electron wrappers and make use of both web sockets and RESTful APIs. If that appeals to you, it sounds like you’ll fit in well!

We’d also love it if you are keen to write accessible, maintainable, modular features, and make a real difference to our users while you’re at it.

Working at CareScribe

We want CareScribe to be a place where people can do great work, grow their careers, and feel supported.

We offer:

• Transparent pay and performance frameworks linked to development and impact
• 25 days holiday (rising to 30) plus bank holidays, with the option to buy
• Up to 16 weeks' full-pay/8 weeks half-pay parental leave (up to 6 weeks for partners)
• 5% employer pension contribution with option to salary sacrifice
• Company sick pay - 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks at half pay
• Spill mental wellbeing support and Health Shield cash plan
• £250 annual learning allowance
• 10 "Work Away" days each year
• Free access to Caption.Ed and TalkType for friends and family
• Team socials, away days, and a dog-friendly office
• Matched charity donations

Our Hiring Process

We aim to keep things straightforward and respectful of your time:

• A first conversation with the hiring manager - (20 minutes)
• A follow-up interview (virtual, 50 minutes)
• A final in-person session including a short practical task and time to meet the team

We'll move quickly and keep you informed throughout.

Right to Work in the UK

This role is open to candidates who already have the right to work in the UK. We're not currently able to offer visa sponsorship.

CareScribe is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace. We want everyone here to feel valued, respected, and able to do their best work.