Web Engineer

Jobtailor; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Cardiff is seeking a frontend engineer to work closely with the Product Manager and peers, owning frontend features from start to finish. You will collaborate across disciplines to identify opportunities and deliver impactful improvements.

You will thrive in a cross‑functional environment, collaborating on dashboards, metrics analysis, and decisions driven by user feedback and data insights. This role focuses on modern frontend frameworks and scalable UI design.

Qualifications

• You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by user feedback and data insight.
• You care deeply about providing a great user experience for our users.
• You have an interest in building performant, secure, scalable web experiences and designing/building UI that makes it easy for users to accomplish what they need.
• You enjoy diving deep into dashboards, metrics, and then making decisions/recommendations based on impact.
• You enjoy working in a large front-end codebase with many stakeholders.
• You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
• You have developed modern component-oriented JavaScript applications using frameworks and libraries (e.g React, Vue, Angular, Flow/Typescript, Webpack etc).
• You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Product Manager and other cross-discipline peers.
• Identifying and scoping opportunities for impactful projects.
• Actively contributing to every stage in the product development lifecycle within your team, and owning the development of new features from start to finish.
• Working closely with other engineers to scope and build out functionality to support new frontend features.

Skills

Cross-disciplinary teamwork

Iterative development

Data-driven decision making

User experience focus

Prioritisation

Learning mindset

Tools

React

Vue

Angular

Typescript

Webpack

Job description

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Product Manager and other cross-discipline peers.
• Identifying and scoping opportunities for impactful projects.
• Actively contributing to every stage in the product development lifecycle within your team, and owning the development of new features from start to finish.
• Working closely with other engineers to scope and build out functionality to support new frontend features.

Requirements

• You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by user feedback and data insight.
• You care deeply about providing a great user experience for our users.
• You have an interest in building performant, secure, scalable web experiences and designing/building UI that makes it easy for users to accomplish what they need.
• You enjoy diving deep into dashboards, metrics, and then making decisions/recommendations based on impact.
• You enjoy working in a large front-end codebase with many stakeholders.
• You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
• You have developed modern component-oriented JavaScript applications using frameworks and libraries (e.g React, Vue, Angular, Flow/Typescript, Webpack etc).
• You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building performant, secure, and scalable web experiences while prioritizing user experience and collaboration within cross-disciplinary teams. Proficient in modern component-oriented JavaScript frameworks and libraries, with a strong focus on iterative development driven by user feedback and data insights.