Hays Technology
Ecommerce Front End Developer (React, GraphQL)
Job Description
Salary: £40,000 - 45,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong React/TypeScript development experience (2+ years)
- Experience with or exposure to headless CMS platforms such as Hygraph
- Good understanding of GraphQL and modern data fetching approaches
- Understanding of PWA concepts and frontend performance optimisation
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage non-technical stakeholders
- Experience building B2B and B2C ecommerce websites, ideally interacting with a Magento backend
- AWS cloud experience
- Build and own the core ecommerce website experience within a modern, headless architecture
- Develop in React, work with GraphQL APIs, and integrate with Hygraph CMS
- Deliver a fast, scalable, and flexible frontend for a complex ecommerce environment
- Engage with internal stakeholders and translate requirements into technical solutions
- Help shape how the platform evolves and influence technical direction
- Establish and strengthen our in-house frontend capability as we bring more work away from third-party providers
- AWS
- Backend
- Cloud
- CMS
- Frontend
- GraphQL
- Support
- Magento
- PWA
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
More:
We are a market-leading manufacturing business with a strong engineering heritage, investing heavily in our digital capability as part of a wider transformation programme. We support both B2B and B2C ecommerce through a complex, high-scale platform and are modernising how we engage customers through technology. This role is based in Northampton, with four days onsite and Fridays working from home. We offer a salary of £40,000 to £45,000 plus benefits, including free onsite parking, 25 days holiday, a strong pension, healthcare schemes, flexible working hours, and funding for training and certifications. Visa sponsorship is not available initially.
last updated 32 week of 2026
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Hays Technology
Northampton
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£42,500
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£55,000
UK median
This salary is 23% below the UK median for Developers (£55,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks