Senior Frontend Engineer

Were looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join our agile product-aligned engineering teams. This is a senior individual contributor role with clear expectations around technical ownership engineering leadership and delivery at scale.

Youll be front-end focused playing a key role in shaping the customer experience across our MACH-based digital platform (Microservices API-first Cloud-Native Headless) which powers 70 websites and mobile applications across multiple Frasers Group brands. Beyond delivery you will act as a technical mentor for our wider front-end community and a key partner to our Design Product and Content teams.

This role goes beyond feature delivery. As a Senior Engineer youll influence technical direction raise engineering standards and help teams make better long-term decisions around performance quality and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive front-end architecture decisions including component design state management and application structure.
• Contribute to and influence shared design systems and front-end standards used across brands and squads.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex front-end solutions using modern frameworks (primarily React NextJS and TypeScript).
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews mentoring and pairing; ensuring coding standards are kept while raising the capability of engineers around you.
• Act as a senior technical partner to Product Design and Content teamsshaping solutions from discovery through to delivery and providing technical support on how to use certain systems.
• Take ownership of critical customer journeys ensuring high standards of usability accessibility performance and resilience.
• Build consume and evolve GraphQL and REST APIs contributing to backend services where required.
• Champion engineering best practices: code quality testing strategy performance optimisation and security.
• Stay ahead of front-end and full-stack trends bringing informed pragmatic innovation into the platform.
• Stay active in the tech community attending conferences and bringing back new ideas and knowledge to the platform.
• Proactively identify technical risks platform constraints and opportunities for improvement e.g. CI/CD pipelines developer experience and delivery flow.

Qualifications :

Essential experience:

• Significant commercial experience as a Senior Front-End or Full-Stack Engineer in large-scale production environments.
• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers and supporting their technical growth.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep experience with React and NextJS (or equivalent modern front-end frameworks).
• Strong communication skills and experience building relationships with Design Product and Content teams.
• Strong understanding of web performance accessibility (WCAG) and responsive design.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle including testing CI/CD and automation.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working in MACH / composable commerce architectures.
• Knowledge of Core Web Vitals and front-end performance monitoring.
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms & Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• Event-driven or distributed system exposure.
• A strong DevOps mindset and comfortable working in containerised environments.

Additional Information :

Whats next

Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time