Frontend Software Engineer

TL;DR

Frontend Software Engineer (React/TypeScript): Designing and building modern web applications with React and TypeScript, focusing on responsive and high-performance multi-faceted user interfaces. Focus on state management, component styling, and testing with Jest and React Testing Library.

Location: Edinburgh. Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Salary: £48,987-£54,430 per annum

Company

We’re investing billions in our people, places and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers.

What you will do

• Contribute to supporting the strategic direction for application development within the team.
• Ensure that software is built in a way that is consistent with the core Architectural frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider Engineering community.
• Work closely with the Business analysts and Product Owners to ensure requirements are clearly defined and acceptance criteria’s are met.
• Work with Architects, providing input for key solution design artefacts.
• Be aware of industry innovation, and gain exposure to the knowledge required to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist.
• Be willing to be part of production support rota and/or Technical Recovery Manager rota to coordinate/provide solution for the resolution of incidents.

Requirements

• Hands‑on experience building modern web applications with React and TypeScript/JavaScript, delivering responsive and high‑performance multi-facetted user interfaces.
• Proficient in state management and component styling, with familiarity across single‑page applications and micro‑frontends.
• Committed to quality through testing with Jest, React Testing Library, and end‑to-end tools such as Playwright.
• Familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness), containerisation/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (like GCP).
• Commitment to writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Culture & Benefits

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual bonus (based on Group performance)
• Share schemes, including free shares
• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle
• Generous parental leave and wellbeing support