Senior React Software Engineer

SBS Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK building society is seeking a Senior React Software Engineer in Skipton. This role involves building responsive interfaces with React.js and TypeScript, mentoring developers, and working in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in front-end development and a passion for innovation. Flexible working options are available, along with various employee benefits including a bonus scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Matching employer pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Cycle to work initiative

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience with ReactJS/NextJS in a production environment.
• Strong front-end skills with TypeScript.
• Experience mentoring developers.

Responsibilities

• Build responsive, accessible user interfaces using React.js and TypeScript.
• Provide technical mentorship to developers.
• Work in multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Skills

ReactJS

TypeScript

REST APIs

Git

JEST

Tools

NextJS

Azure

Storybook

Job description

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Senior React Software Engineer

Apply locations Skipton, England time type Full time posted on Posted 22 Days Ago job requisition id JR3345

Hours:

35 hours per week, Hybrid working - 2 days per week in the office

Closing Date:

Thu, 28 Aug 2025

We’re looking for a curious Senior React.js Developer to join ou r cross-functional engineering team at Skipton Building Society. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to impactful front-end projects that power customer facing and internal platforms across one of the UK’s top building societies.

You’ll be hands-on in building responsive, accessible, and elegant user interfaces usingReact.jsandTypeScript, collaborating with engineers, designers, and product owners throughout the full software development lifecycle.

About Skipton Building Society

At Skipton Building Society, we're a mutual organisation owned by our members and driven by putting people at the heart of everything we do. We believe success comes from great people and treating everyone as individuals. Our values; Trust, Ownership, and One Team guide how we work together and deliver exceptional service to our customers.

We love to experiment and play around with the tools, techniques, and technologies we have available to us to improve how we deliver solutions. As a Senior software engineer, you can expect to be involved in:

• Engineering Software solutions – working with prototypes and proof of concepts.

• Producing accessible, responsive, rich front-end UI using Typescript in the ReactJS and NextJS framework.

• Integrating with cloud services and back-end systems ( ie , API’s, IDAM).

• Providing technical mentorship and guidance to developers.
  

• Working in multidisciplinary engineering teams across the whole software development life cycle.

We look for people who are passionate around solving problems through innovation and engineering practices. You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner with stakeholders to stay focused on common goals.

Our Ideal Candidate

Will have :

• 5+ years' experience withReactJS/ NextJS in a production environment.

• Strong front-end skills withTypeScript(JavaScript knowledge also valued)

• Familiarity withREST APIs

• Solid understanding version controlsuch as Git.

• Experience with testing React applications using JEST or vitest

• Experience mentoring developers and help foster a culture of learning and growth
  

• Team-oriented mindset with strong communication skills
  

Would be great, but not essential if you also had:

• Experience working withStorybookandAtomic Designprinciples .

• Exposure toAzureservices (AWS or other cloud backgrounds also welcomed)

• Awareness ofTDD/BDDpractices

• Familiarity withAgilemethodologies like Scrum or SAFe

• Familiarity with playwright end to end testing
  

Will be :

• Curious about technology and adaptable to new technologies .

• Agile-minded, optimistic, passionate, and pragmatic about delivering valuable software to customers.

• Someone who puts quality first and has a passion for good design and clean code.

• Willing to support colleagues, leveraging their experience & knowledge.

What’s In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including;

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme

• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.

• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days.

• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum).

• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply).

• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car.

• A commitment to training and development.

• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues.

• 3 paid volunteering days per annum.

• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups.

• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership.

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Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us as we continue to support our members and represent the communities we serve. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, age, family or parental status, beliefs, nationalities and religions - supporting an inclusive environment for all our colleagues to bring their true selves to Skipton.

If you have a disability, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we’ll be happy to discuss making reasonable adjustments to our processes for you. Please contact our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] .