Senior Software Engineer Front End - 12 Month FTC

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty brand is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build web applications and components using React and TypeScript. The role involves mentoring and collaboration within cross-functional teams, delivering high-quality code in a dynamic, hybrid work environment. Ideal candidates will have experience in modern JavaScript frameworks, responsive design, and cloud-based solutions.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Inclusive parental leave policy

Wellness and social benefits

Product discount and gifting

Dog-friendly workplace days

Qualifications

• Experience in developing web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of responsive design and accessibility standards.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and perform unit testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build web applications and components using React.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and drive team collaboration.
• Develop high-performance solutions on cloud infrastructure.

Skills

React

TypeScript

CSS

Redux

Responsive design

Testing practices

Tools

Next.js

Cypress

Java

AWS

Job description

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de‑coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy‑to‑use, easy‑to‑choose, easy‑to‑gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market‑leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry‑leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role

We’re looking for motivated, curious, and collaborative engineers who are excited to build game‑changing features with luxury‑level polish and reliability. If you love solving problems, working across disciplines, and bringing ideas to life, you’ll thrive here.

As Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for

• The design and building of web‑applications and components in modern React, using hooks, Context as well as Redux
• CSS and responsive, accessible mobile‑first design
• Writing clean, high‑quality code that is easy to test and maintain
• Mentoring engineers who are earlier in their career
• TypeScript and front‑end frameworks such as Next.js
• Good testing practice including unit testing React and end‑to‑end tests using Cypress or similar
• Knowing modern web applications work, from HTTP requests in a browser and calling RESTful APIs, through to rendering a page
• Building high‑performance and scalable solutions on public cloud infrastructure
• Up‑to‑date software architecture and design patterns

Who you will work with

We work in SCRUM or Kanban teams, with a strong emphasis on cross‑functional collaboration. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers to build robust, scalable solutions that are as elegant as they are effective. We care deeply about quality, performance, and observability, and we’re always open to challenging convention when it leads to better outcomes.

About you

You might also be interested to hear a little bit about our tech‑stack

• On the back end we use Java with Spring Boot, in an AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment
• On the front‑end React, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, and SCSS, and test with Jest, Enzyme, React testing library and Cypress
• Orchestration of our test and deployment process using CircleCI with GitHub, Maven
• We use Contentful and ElasticPath as our content and commerce engines respectively
• We also use Optimizely to run A/B testing on the features we build

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast‑paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

If you want to learn more about life at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty please follow our LinkedIn page!