Lead Frontend Developer

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require extensive commercial experience with React and TypeScript.
• We require strong Node.js experience supporting high-performance, customer-facing web applications.
• We require previous technical leadership experience, including setting standards, reviewing code and leading technical delivery.
• We require a strong understanding of frontend architecture, responsive design and UI performance optimisation.
• We require experience delivering complex features while remaining hands-on in development.
• We require the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• We require proven experience mentoring developers and improving engineering capability.
• Experience working on large-scale eCommerce or other high-traffic public-facing platforms is highly desirable.
• Experience with Next.js is desirable.
• Experience with micro frontends is desirable.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture is desirable.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is desirable.
• Experience with web accessibility and inclusive design is desirable.
• Experience in agile delivery environments is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• We provide hands-on technical leadership across frontend development using React, TypeScript, Node.js and Material UI.
• We coordinate engineering workload and help the team deliver against the product roadmap.
• We define and maintain engineering standards covering architecture, code quality, testing, performance and accessibility.
• We lead code reviews and technical design discussions for scalable, high-performance solutions.
• We mentor and coach developers, raising technical capability across the team.
• We work closely with the Delivery Manager and key stakeholders to manage technical priorities, risks and dependencies.
• We drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, tooling and development practices.
• We support production systems and participate in an on-call rota during peak trading periods.

Technologies:

• Azure
• Frontend
• Support
• Material UI
• React
• TypeScript
• Web
• UX UI Design
• NodeJS
• Cloud
• JavaScript

More:

We are a leading UK retail organisation with a high-performing eCommerce engineering team, and we are hiring a Lead Frontend Developer to help shape the technical direction of a customer-facing platform used by millions of users worldwide. This is a technical leadership role rather than a people management position, so you will remain hands-on while guiding engineering standards, coordinating delivery, reviewing code and mentoring developers. You will work with modern technologies including React, TypeScript, Node.js, Material UI and Next.js, within a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement. The role is based in Leicester with a hybrid working pattern, offers a salary of £63,825 to £72,618 plus a 10-12% annual bonus, and relocation support may be available. Please note that we cannot offer visa sponsorship now or in the future.

last updated 32 week of 2026