2316 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline (or equivalent experience).
- 5 years of experience building complex front-end applications at scale.
- Expertise in React 18 and TypeScript, including:
- Advanced hooks
- Strict typing, generics
- Composition patterns
- Performance optimization
- Familiarity with tools such as:
- TanStack Query, Router, Table, Virtual
- Vite
- React Hook Form & Zod
- Nx Workspace
- Tailwind CSS
- Vitest, Cypress, MSW
- Storybook 8
- Strong understanding of component-driven development and design systems.
- Knowledge of micro-frontend architecture, Nx monorepos, and domain-driven design.
- Experience writing high-quality unit, integration, and functional tests.
- Ability to break down complex problems and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication, documentation, and mentoring skills.
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Responsibilities
- Design and evolve front-end architecture for complex, distributed systems.
- Ensure UI/UX designs are technically feasible, performant, and accessible.
- Implement information architecture and interaction design aligned with backend specifications.
- Develop new user-facing features using modern, component-driven development.
- Build and maintain internal design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Write clean, test-driven, production-quality React and TypeScript code.
- Optimize applications for speed, scalability, maintainability, and accessibility.
- Contribute regularly to shared codebases with minimal oversight.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle and communicate progress to the Development Director.
- Update, maintain, and modernize existing front-end applications.
- Work with Customer Support and Implementation teams to resolve issues and bugs.
- Support cross-functional teams with technical insights, solutions, and guidance.
- Engage with customers and internal teams on technical requirements or project status.
- Stay ahead of front-end trends and emerging technologies.
- Contribute ideas to improve processes, tools, and product capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to drive innovation across the engineering function.
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Description
We are a highly regarded technology organization delivering enterprise-scale digital platforms used by some of the world's leading brands. We are seeking a Principal React Engineer to play a key role in modernizing and evolving our front-end architecture as part of a major multi-year transformation program. In this role, you will act as the technical leader in the React space, shaping front-end architecture, improving performance, introducing best-practice engineering standards, and contributing significantly to shared codebases. You will collaborate closely with product, UX, backend engineering, and data teams to deliver seamless, scalable, customer-facing applications used globally. Join us to play a pivotal role in a major front-end platform modernization, lead technical direction in React while remaining fully hands-on, and work across enterprise-scale products used globally. Enjoy hybrid working with only 2 days on-site in Derry, alongside an exceptional salary package, strong engineering culture, collaborative environment, and real autonomy. You'll have opportunities to influence architecture, standards, and front-end strategy.
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