<p><strong>Description</strong><br />You'll play a key role in shaping the future of a large-scale customer-facing digital platform, leading the development and evolution of modern web applications used by thousands daily. <br /><br />Working closely with product, design, and engineering teams, you'll drive technical excellence, mentor engineers, and help deliver exceptional user experiences.</p><ul><li>Lead the design, development, and evolution of modern frontend applications.</li><li>Drive engineering standards, best practices, and technical consistency across teams.</li><li>Improve website performance, accessibility, discoverability, and customer experience.</li><li>Mentor and support engineers to grow technical capability across the organisation.</li><li>Champion modern engineering practices, observability, and continuous improvement.</li></ul><p><strong>The Company</strong><br />A well-established digital business operating a high-traffic online platform with a strong national presence. <br />The organisation is recognised as a market leader within its sector and continues to invest heavily in technology, product innovation, and engineering excellence.</p><ul><li>Operates a large-scale, customer-facing digital platform.</li><li>Strong focus on modern web technologies and cloud-native engineering.</li><li>Collaborative, product-led culture with cross-functional teams.</li><li>Values continuous learning, innovation, and technical excellence.</li><li>Investing in modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development, and platform evolution.</li></ul><p><strong>The Role</strong><br />This is a hands-on Lead Front-End Engineering position responsible for driving frontend architecture, technical leadership, and delivery across a suite of modern web applications. <br /><br />You'll work across the full software development lifecycle while helping shape long-term platform strategy and engineering standards.</p><ul><li>Lead development using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js.</li><li>Design scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable frontend solutions.</li><li>Drive improvements across Core Web Vitals, performance, accessibility, and technical SEO.</li><li>Enhance observability through monitoring, analytics, and performance tooling.</li><li>Contribute to architecture decisions, technical planning, and engineering roadmaps.</li><li>Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, Platform, and Engineering teams; Champion AI-assisted development practices to improve productivity and code quality.</li></ul><p><strong>Your Profile</strong><br />You're an experienced Senior or Lead Front-End Engineer with a passion for building high-quality digital products, solving complex technical challenges, and helping engineering teams succeed.</p><ul><li>7+ year's professional software engineering experience with expert-level experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript.</li><li>Strong understanding of frontend architecture, rendering strategies, and web performance.</li><li>Proven success building and scaling customer-facing web applications.</li><li>Experience improving Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, and user experience outcomes.</li><li>Strong Node.js knowledge and experience integrating with APIs and distributed systems.</li><li>Exposure to cloud environments and modern CI/CD delivery practices.</li><li>Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, or similar.</li><li>Demonstrated mentoring, technical leadership, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.</li><li>Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT.</li></ul><p><strong>Desirable Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Experience operating high-traffic digital products or platforms.</li><li>Exposure to GraphQL, CDN optimisation, caching strategies, or edge delivery.</li><li>Experience modernising legacy applications and platforms.</li><li>Background within marketplace, eCommerce, search-driven, or digital product businesses.</li><li>Contributions to technical communities, open-source projects, or engineering content.</li></ul><p><strong>Apply Today</strong><br />Please submit your application in Word format by clicking on the apply button.<br /><br /><em>Reference Number: 06900-0013450777</em></p><p><em>By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. 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