Senior Frontend Engineer
Derbyshire (Hybrid, 3 days onsite) £85,000 to £90,000
This is an opportunity to join a fast growing digital engineering function at a pivotal point in its transformation. With multiple senior hires planned and urgent demand, this role offers real influence over customer facing products, frontend architecture, and engineering standards across a large scale ecommerce platform.
The Company
They are a major UK based retail and ecommerce organisation undergoing significant digital change. Technology sits at the heart of their strategy, with engineering teams owning core customer journeys across multiple consumer brands. The environment is product led, highly collaborative, and focused on building scalable platforms that support millions of users. Engineering is empowered to shape decisions, not just deliver tickets.
The Role
You will be a senior individual contributor within frontend focused squads, working on high impact customer experiences.
- Build and evolve customer facing ecommerce journeys including browse, checkout, payments, and membership.
- Influence frontend architecture, design systems, and shared standards across squads.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Content to shape solutions from discovery to delivery.
- Act as a technical mentor, supporting frontend engineers across the wider team.
- Champion performance, accessibility, and quality across production systems.
- Collaborate with backend engineers, integrating with Node.js services and APIs in a microservices environment.
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience with JavaScript and TypeScript in large scale production environments.
- Deep experience building applications with React, ideally using Next.js.
- Proven understanding of frontend performance, accessibility standards such as WCAG, and Core Web Vitals.
- Experience integrating with REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Comfort working in a modern engineering environment alongside microservices and cloud native platforms.
- A holistic mindset, understanding how frontend fits into the wider system.
- Full stack experience with a frontend lean is highly valued.
What They Offer
- The chance to work on high traffic, customer facing platforms with real ownership.
- Clear progression for senior engineers who want to influence architecture and standards.
- A collaborative culture with strong emphasis on engineering ownership and quality.
How to Apply
If you are a senior frontend engineer looking for impact, ownership, and the chance to shape a large scale ecommerce platform, apply now to learn more.