IT & Software

Staff Frontend Engineer

Motorway

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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Overview

In this Staff Frontend Engineer role, you will lead frontend engineering across cross-functional squads to ship high-quality web features at scale. You’ll own architectural decisions, guide migrations, and shape the AI-enabled frontend strategy to accelerate delivery. The position sits at a fast-growing scale-up, emphasizing collaboration, code quality, and measurable impact on product and business outcomes. You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, data analysts, and a product manager to drive consistent, modern web experiences.

Responsibilities
  • Ship end-to-end features with accessible, performant components
  • Own API contracts and department documentation while maintaining a technical roadmap
  • Drive consistency across web properties and lead migration efforts
  • Set frontend security, reliability standards, and production readiness criteria
  • Oversee build and deployment, evaluate hosting and build-vs-buy decisions
  • Develop IC3 engineers into technical leaders and foster ownership culture
  • Lead AI-assisted engineering using Kiro and standardize AI integration in workflows
Key requirements
  • 5+ years of frontend experience delivering production web applications at scale
  • Ability to translate business priorities into technical decisions under uncertainty
  • Recognised as a technical frontend authority with influence beyond own team
  • Deep expertise in CSS/SCSS, HTML, and modern ECMAScript; strong framework trade-offs knowledge
  • Experience writing unit and E2E tests and building CI workflows
  • Strong TypeScript and modern React experience, plus Next.js for SSR/routing/data fetching
  • Pragmatic build-vs-refactor-vs-replace judgment informed by scale challenges
  • Interest in leading AI-assisted development in the team workflow
  • leadership and mentorship
  • strong communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams
  • business-minded technical decision-making
  • TypeScript
  • React (hooks, component composition)
  • Next.js (SSR, routing, data fetching)

Reference: WJ-747_31202088 · Posted 01 Nov 2026, 12:13 PM

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