Front-End Developer (React/Modern JavaScript) - eSC/eDV Clearance

IBM

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 87,000 - 121,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working
Maternity leave
Paternity leave
Holiday 25 days
Private medical
Dental & optical
Employee Assistance Program
Group pension (salary sacrifice)

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a skilled Front‑end Engineer to work within IBM’s Client Innovation Centers. You will collaborate across design, engineering, QA, and DevOps to deliver end‑to‑end UI solutions, build reusable components, and ensure performance and accessibility.

The role emphasizes leadership on complex projects, architecture, and client‑facing delivery, with strong emphasis on React/Next.js and cloud familiarity.

Qualifications

  • Experience with modern frameworks (React, Vue.js, Next.js).
  • Understanding of responsive design and accessibility best practices.
  • Experience with component libraries, design systems, and UI/UX collaboration.
  • Strong debugging, testing, and performance optimisation skills.
  • Experience with Git and Git‑based workflows.
  • Understanding of API integration and backend collaboration.
  • Knowledge of front‑end testing (unit, integration, E2E).
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps workflows.
  • Strong communication and problem‑solving ability.
  • Experience leading teams or acting as technical lead.
  • Experience defining architecture, standards, or best practices.
  • Understanding of cloud‑native environments (AWS, Azure).
  • Exposure to Node.js or Next.js server‑side concepts.
  • Consulting or client‑facing experience.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, QA, DevOps, and other team members to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
  • Build reusable components, UI patterns, and maintain clean, well‑structured code.
  • Conduct testing, debugging, and performance optimisation to ensure a smooth user experience.
  • Participate in requirements analysis, providing front‑end input to design and solution discussions.
  • Contribute to CI/CD processes and version control workflows using Git‑based tooling.
  • Stay current with emerging front‑end technologies and apply them appropriately.
  • Depending on experience: Lead front‑end development on complex projects and define architecture and coding standards.
  • Guide development workflows, testing strategies, and release processes.
  • Mentor junior and mid‑level developers and support their technical and consulting development.
  • Communicate technical decisions, trade‑offs, and solution approaches to stakeholders and clients.
  • Influence planning, technical strategy, or account‑level delivery decisions.

Skills

React
Vue.js
Next.js
Responsive design
Accessibility
Design systems
UI/UX collaboration
Git-based workflows
API integration
Unit/Integration/E2E testing
CI/CD
Cloud (AWS/Azure)
Node.js concepts
Consulting delivery

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Git
CI/CD tooling

Job description

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

  • Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
  • More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, QA, DevOps, and other team members to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
  • Build reusable components, UI patterns, and maintain clean, well‑structured code.
  • Conduct testing, debugging, and performance optimisation to ensure a smooth user experience.
  • Participate in requirements analysis, providing front‑end input to design and solution discussions.
  • Contribute to CI/CD processes and version control workflows using Git‑based tooling.
  • Stay current with emerging front‑end technologies and apply them appropriately.
  • Depending on experience:
  • Lead front‑end development on complex projects and define architecture and coding standards.
  • Guide development workflows, testing strategies, and release processes.
  • Mentor junior and mid‑level developers and support their technical and consulting development.
  • Communicate technical decisions, trade‑offs, and solution approaches to stakeholders and clients.
  • Influence planning, technical strategy, or account‑level delivery decisions.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Experience with modern frameworks (React, Vue.js, Next.js)
  • Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and usability best practices
  • Experience with component libraries, design systems, and UI/UX collaboration
  • Strong debugging, testing, and performance optimisation skills
  • Experience with Git and Git‑based workflows
  • Understanding of API integration and backend collaboration
  • Knowledge of front‑end testing (unit, integration, E2E)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps workflows
  • Strong communication and problem‑solving ability
  • Experience leading teams or acting as technical lead
  • Experience defining architecture, standards, or best practices
  • Understanding of cloud‑native environments (AWS, Azure)
  • Exposure to Node.js or Next.js server‑side concepts
  • Consulting or client‑facing experience

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Experience building and maintaining design systems or enterprise‑scale component libraries
  • Exposure to performance monitoring and optimisation tooling (e.g. Lighthouse, Web Vitals)
  • Experience working in regulated or high‑assurance environments (e.g. Public Sector, Financial Services)
  • Familiarity with server‑side rendering and edge delivery patterns (e.g. Next.js, SSR, static optimisation)
  • Experience collaborating in multi‑disciplinary, client‑facing delivery teams, including participation in workshops or discovery phases
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

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