Senior Frontend Engineer - Accessibility, Remote

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Position summary:

Looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer - Accessibility, Remote who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Part of this job is rebuilding an older AngularJS front end in React. Some of that work is unglamorous migration, and we won't pretend otherwise. Remote within the UK. The team meets in London once a quarter, travel covered.

Day to day:

• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress.
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.

What you need:

• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts.
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.

Nice to have:

• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy.
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts.
• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering.
• Figma, including Dev Mode.

Pay: £95,000 - £118,000 per year

Pay and benefits:

• Private medical insurance.
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution.
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Long service awards.
• Life assurance (4x salary)

Successful applicants will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brassline Ltd.