Lead Front End Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in London, England and two nearshore delivery centres.

Job summary:

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. We're hiring another Lead Front End Developer to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. The company is based in London, the UK. The team is distributed across several countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Sri Lanka, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Main duties:

• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent.
• Add analytics events and help product read the results.

What you need:

• 8-10 years building production web applications.
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup.
• Git and a pull request based workflow.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.

Perks and benefits:

• Flexible hours.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Annual learning budget.
• Paid parental leave.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Immediately.

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