Senior Frontend Engineer - TypeScript / React / AWS
At a Glance
- Senior Frontend Engineer role on a modern, cloud-native product platform
- TypeScript / React ecosystem with AWS integration and serverless architecture
- Hybrid working - Belfast
- Real ownership of UI architecture, not just shipping screens
About the Company
Our client is a fast-moving, product-led technology company headquartered in Belfast, building large-scale workflow solutions for some of the world's biggest enterprises. Their engineering culture is highly collaborative, modular, and cloud-native, with a genuine focus on quality, scalability, and doing things properly. This is a team that invests in its engineers through L&D budgets, clear progression frameworks, and a culture built around technical excellence.
The Role
This is a senior frontend engineering position for someone who thrives in TypeScript ecosystems, understands cloud-first software principles, and is motivated by clean, scalable frontend architecture. You'll take ownership of key UI initiatives across a modern platform, contributing across the full engineering lifecycle, not just shipping UIs, but helping shape how the platform operates end-to-end. You'll collaborate closely with platform, backend, and DevOps engineers, and play an active role in mentoring and raising engineering standards across the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of React-based applications using Hooks, Context, and TypeScript within a monorepo environment
- Build scalable frontend solutions integrated with AWS services and serverless APIs
- Champion frontend code quality, performance, accessibility, and reusability, including component libraries such as Storybook
- Mentor engineers and guide best practices across testing (Jest, Cypress), CI/CD, and frontend observability
- Collaborate with platform teams on core decisions around authentication, analytics, real-time events, and PWA optimisation
- Work closely with DevOps and backend engineers in a CI/CD-driven environment using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and ArgoCD
What You'll Need
Essential
- 6+ years' commercial software engineering experience, including delivering React and TypeScript at scale
- Strong architectural background, you've built or scaled monorepos, component libraries, or complex frontend systems
- Hands-on AWS experience, ideally Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, and S3
- DevOps-aware mindset with experience in CI/CD, performance tuning, and deployment workflows
- A collaborative, mentoring approach with proven success in cross-functional teams
- Right to work in the UK
Nice to Have
- Experience with NestJS, Next.js, GraphQL, or WebSockets
- Background in mobile or PWA delivery
- Exposure to or interest in Rust as a backend / systems language
Why Apply?
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
- Hybrid working from Belfast with flexible hours
- Health and wellness programme
- L&D budget, tech talks, and regular team meetups
- Clear career progression framework with real room to grow
Interested?
Reach out to Ryan Quinn directly on LinkedIn for a confidential conversation, or submit your CV via the link below.
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