About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong frontend development fundamentals across semantic HTML, modern CSS, and JavaScript.
- Commercial experience with React and TypeScript.
- Experience with a modern full-stack React framework, specifically Remix or React Router v7+.
- Practical server-side rendering experience, including loaders/actions, forms, routing, error handling, and server-side session patterns.
- Understanding of progressive enhancement and building core user journeys that do not depend entirely on client-side JavaScript.
- Material UI experience, including building reusable and accessible components.
- Automated testing experience covering unit and integration testing, as well as Playwright end-to-end testing.
- REST API integration experience.
- Experience with Git-based development and code-review processes.
- Strong accessibility knowledge aligned with WCAG 2.2 AA, including semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, screen-reader testing, and automated accessibility checks.
- Ability to meet the BPSS clearance requirement.
- Desirable: React Router framework mode, including data APIs, nested routes, form actions, and streaming SSR.
- Desirable: Node.js and Express experience, particularly with a server or backend-for-frontend layer.
- Desirable: Component library and design system development using MUI, Storybook, and Figma.
- Desirable: Runtime validation and contract-first API integration using technologies such as Zod and OpenAPI-generated types.
- Desirable: OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect authentication, authorisation, and secure session management.
- Desirable: CI/CD, dependency management, and frontend security practices.
- Desirable: Experience in regulated or government environments.
- Desirable: Experience working closely with UX, API, test, and platform teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop responsive and accessible frontend services using React and TypeScript.
- Work with a UI/UX Design Lead to implement effective user journeys.
- Develop server-rendered functionality, including loaders/actions, forms, routing, error handling, and server-side session patterns.
- Build reusable, accessible components using Material UI.
- Integrate frontend services with REST APIs.
- Develop automated unit, integration, and Playwright end-to-end tests.
- Build accessible services aligned with WCAG 2.2 AA.
- Participate in Git-based development and code-review processes.
- Collaborate with UX, API, test, and platform stakeholders.
Technologies
- API
- Backend
- CI/CD
- CSS
- Figma
- Frontend
- Git
- JavaScript
- Material UI
- OAuth
- OpenAPI
- OpenID
- Playwright
- REST
- React
- Security
- Storybook
- TypeScript
- UX UI Design
- NodeJS
More
We are recruiting for a Front End Engineer / React Developer to join a government body developing modern frontend services and user journeys. You will work closely with a UI/UX Design Lead and other stakeholders. The role is based in Telford, with a hybrid arrangement requiring at least two days on-site each week. The initial contract is six months, with the potential to extend up to 12 months, at a rate of £550 inside. The engagement is PAYE-only under Capgemini requirements.
last updated 45 week of 2026