Senior Front End Developer (Web & Mobile)
• £60,000 to £75,000, depending on experience
• Senior individual contributor role spanning both web (Next.js) and mobile (React Native)
• Fully remote, UK based
• Genuine influence over front-end architecture, standards, and AI tooling adoption
• Exclusive to Ocho People, this role will not be advertised anywhere else
About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing tech business who have built a reputation for promoting from within and backing ambitious people with real opportunity and real support. The engineering culture is built on trust, honesty, and squads that take genuine ownership of what they build.
The Role
This is a senior, hands-on engineering role split across two core front-end platforms: a multi-app web monorepo built on Next.js, and a cross-platform mobile client built on React Native. You will deliver complex features end-to-end, contribute to architecture and patterns alongside the lead, and help shape the tooling and AI workflows the wider team relies on. It is an individual contributor role with broad scope, working closely with product, design, content, and platform teams. You will be expected to bring strong code, thoughtful review, and pragmatic technical judgement to everything you touch.
Key Responsibilities
• Deliver complex features end-to-end across both the web and mobile platforms
• Contribute to front-end architecture and technical direction alongside the lead engineer
• Review code across both repositories, upholding quality and consistency
• Own module boundaries, shared libraries, and the dependency graph within the Nx monorepo
• Integrate new third-party SDKs end-to-end, from typed wrapper through to rollout
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across web releases and mobile release channels
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Shape front-end standards and ways of working through the UI Chapter
• Take part in incident response, including triage, hotfix, and post-incident review
• Champion AI tooling adoption, including custom agents and MCP integrations, across the team
What You'll Need
Essential:
• Recent production experience with React and Next.js
• Strong TypeScript skills, writing clean and maintainable code
• Production experience shipping a React Native app on the Expo/EAS toolchain
• Comfortable dropping into Xcode or Gradle when the managed workflow isn't enough
• Experience with TanStack Query and a lightweight client store such as Zustand
• Styling and component composition with Tailwind
• OIDC authentication and push notifications via FCM/APNs
Desirable / Nice to Have:
• Experience with Nx or a comparable monorepo tool (Turborepo, pnpm workspaces)
• Headless CMS experience, content modelling and block-driven rendering (Contentful a plus)
• Fluent with Claude Code and experience authoring MCP servers or custom agents
Why Apply?
• £60,000 to £75,000, depending on experience
• Fully remote working, Must be based in Belfast
• Broad-scope individual contributor role spanning both web and mobile
• Genuine autonomy to shape architecture and technical direction
• Work with a modern, well-invested stack including Next.js App Router, React Native, and an Nx monorepo
• Mentor and influence engineers across the wider team
• Join a business that genuinely promotes from within
• Exclusive role, only available through Ocho People
Next Steps
Interested in finding out more? Get in touch with Chanel Gillen at chanel@ochopeople.com or connect on LinkedIn to hear the full story behind this role.
