Description
We are looking for an experienced front‑end web developer to join our growing engineering organisation headquartered in Reigate, consisting of around 300 engineers. Your role will involve developing market‑leading InsurTech solutions and contributing to the shift towards cloud/SaaS, modernising existing products and building new applications.
The Role
- Bring expertise and best practice from professional, production‑grade web applications, ideally in a SaaS or cloud‑native context.
- Use agentic systems to accelerate UI development.
- Collaborate with the Product Manager/Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of front‑end architecture within an NX monorepo, ensuring consistency across the team.
- Work with UX designers in Figma to iterate high‑quality, accessible GUI implementations from wireframes and design assets.
- Champion and enforce WCAG 2 accessibility standards across all UI deliverables.
- Implement production code following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance, including unit tests with Vitest and e2e tests with Playwright.
- Review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks and technical debt within a modern Angular/NestJS stack.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, stand‑ups, retrospectives) to continuously improve team velocity and engineering practices.
- Address UI governance requirements covering security, accessibility and performance.
Qualifications
The technology stack includes Angular, NestJS (BFF), NX monorepo, tRPC, SCSS, C# and Azure, deployed via Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
What you’ll bring
- Strong proficiency in Angular (v17+), TypeScript, HTML and SCSS with experience in component‑driven SPA architecture.
- Experience working within an NX monorepo structure, understanding workspace organisation, library boundaries and build optimisation.
- Active use of AI‑assisted development tooling and contribution to best‑practice prompt‑driven workflows.
- Familiarity with NgRx Signal Store or equivalent reactive state‑management patterns.
- Experience with NestJS or a comparable Node.js BFF layer and comfort working with a tRPC‑based API contract.
- Solid knowledge of WCAG 2 accessibility requirements and practical experience implementing them in Angular applications.
- Ability to translate Figma designs into polished, pixel‑accurate, responsive UI implementations.
- Experience writing unit tests with Vitest (or Jest) and e2e tests with Playwright.
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests and code‑review workflows.
- Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including authoring and maintaining YAML‑based pipeline definitions.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development in a commercial or production environment.
- Strong appreciation of UX principles and ability to work collaboratively with a dedicated UX team.
Other Highly Desirable, But Not Essential Skills Are
- Ability to architect high‑performance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
- Ability to coordinate day‑to‑day development and bug‑fixing activities.
- Experience guiding teams in UX strategy, implementation and reviews.
- Experience using VS Code, Azure DevOps and Git.
- Experience with Azure.
- Experience with Cypress and other unit‑testing tools.
- General knowledge of the insurance industry.
- Degree‑educated in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a relevant discipline.
What We Offer
Enjoy a benefits package that supports both professional growth and personal wellbeing. You’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day, comprehensive health and wellbeing offerings including private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection and regular health assessments, and a defined contribution pension scheme with company matches up to 10%. We support hybrid working, access to an employee assistance programme, a fully paid volunteer day and a range of additional perks such as an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle‑to‑work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection and more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@wtwco.com.
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