30 Front End Architecture jobs in the United Kingdom

Mintago is looking for a Senior Frontend engineer (individual contributor) to join our growing team. We’re building sleek, responsive web applications with cutting-edge technologies and frameworks underpinned by TypeScript and React.

You will join Mintago at the start of its engineering journey. As a crucial member of our team, you will make decisions that will shape the future of engineering within our company, working in a fast-paced start up environment.

As part of our commitment to delivering robust and reliable software solutions, we prioritise secure development practices at every stage of our software development lifecycle. We are looking for a talented developer who understands the importance of incorporating security measures into their code from the outset. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing secure coding techniques. Additionally, you will work closely with our security team to stay updated on emerging threats and implement appropriate security controls to safeguard our systems and data. Your contributions will play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of our software applications, providing our customers with a secure and seamless user experience.

Mintago is an innovative financial wellbeing platform that helps both employers and their employees with their financial health. We are on a mission to improve how people manage their financial world.

As a socially conscious technology business, we want to make a positive impact on society. We believe in changing people's financial futures through the workplace. That's why we work with businesses to deploy our program. People are more engaged through a workplace program than on their own.

• Building responsive, well-tested web applications
• Leading on frontend technical decisions
• Working closely with product, designers and other developers to make the team’s vision a reality
• Maintaining quality through peer code reviews
• A strong drive to build scalable and performant software
• Increasing quality through best practice and high quality tooling

• Expert TypeScript engineer with a strong understanding of React
• Experienced with NextJS, preferably app router
• You consider unit testing a key part of software delivery
• You have used testing libraries such as Jest or Vitest and React Testing Library
• A drive to collaborate with the team and share your opinions to push our technology forwards

• TailwindCSS
• Experience building reusable components for a component library

You can be part of our world-class team who are bringing real positive change to employees across the UK, and soon the world. Our team is made up of talent from top businesses such as ClearScore, YuLife, RBC Capital Markets and our founder and CEO, Chieu Cao co-founded Perkbox.

Benefits

• Your choice of work kit (ThinkPad or MacBook Pro).
• Hybrid work (2 days in office)
• Budget for equipment to set up your home office.
• A flexible company discretionary unlimited leave policy + your birthday off.
• Flexible company hours so you can fit your life commitments - no company fixed hours as we trust you to manage your time and focus on outcomes delivered.
• A £300 yearly budget for your own learning and development.
• Mintago matches your pension contributions up to 4%
• Private medical insurance (provided by Vitality)
• Life insurance (provided by MetLife)
• Cash plan (provided by Medicash)
• Your own 24/7 concierge service (provided by Sodexo)
• Access to retail & travel discounts
• Access to salary sacrifice benefits across cycle to work, mobile, gym, tech, groceries and EV

At EFG (ESL FACEIT Group) we create worlds beyond gameplay, where players and fans become a community. We pride ourselves in having a corporate social responsibility which is that “IT’S NOT GG, UNTIL IT’S GG FOR ALL”.

Our passion, craft, and DNA align to create and shape the world of esports, gaming tournaments, leagues, events, and holistic ecosystems through our millions of players, fans, and heroes, as well as through our people and culture.

About the FACEIT platform
With more than 25m users playing 30m matches every month FACEIT is the leading competitive gaming platform. We provide gamers the best experience possible by making sure we are always on top of our tech – and continue to deliver industry-leading features to our already awesome platform.

Our Frontend Developers take full responsibility of the entire SDLC and are constantly working on amazing new features. Our tech stack is built around React, Redux, TypeScript, and Next.Js.

We believe in iteration over long-running projects. At EFG we ship incremental improvements to our platform multiple times a day. We learn from each other by providing constructive feedback to our colleagues, through code and peer reviews.

Our teams are organized into cross-functional efforts that look after various verticals of our product, such as Matchmaking, Anti-Cheat, Tournaments, Game Servers, and many more.

We are looking for like-minded people who can bring new, exciting ideas to not only their team but the entire Frontend community within EFG and beyond.

As a Principal Engineer at EFG, you are working on large-scale projects, however, we understand the importance of still being in touch with the code. If you are passionate about frontend technology, while being a determined leader, this role at EFG enables you to have an outstanding impact on the esports industry.

Expectations of the role

• You have a holistic vision of our platform, identifying its strengths and weaknesses.
• You translate company goals into specific actions that unlock business value.
• You are accountable for technical planning and collaborate with Engineering Managers on executing initiatives.
• We believe in evolving architecture, therefore you will be sponsoring team-level experiments that may evolve into company-wide best practices. You master the craft of weighing trade-offs of different architectural solutions against each other.

The personality we are looking for

• We believe in distributed leadership. As a Principal Engineer at EFG, you are an expert and role model for other engineers, acting as the go-to person for large-scale and high-impact initiatives.
• You are a product-minded engineer, understanding that technology acts as a catalyst for delivering great user experiences and value.
• Being a facilitator for technical conversations inside and outside of your team.
• You are fostering innovation within the organization while carefully balancing it with the needs of a very demanding gaming community.
• You are carefully balancing between staying on the cutting edge of frontend technology and keeping in mind the stability, longevity, and maintainability of our platform.

Requirements

Your technical skills:

• Building large-scale applications with React, Redux and Next.js;
• Good demonstrable TypeScript experience;
• Knowledge of React testing framework.
• Experience with WebSockets and real-time messaging;
• Desire to learn new technologies and frameworks;
• Previous experience working on large complex applications;
• A passion for video games and esports is a plus.

We would get especially excited if you have experience with the following:

• Webpack
• Attention to code quality and readability
• Knowledge of optimisation strategies (i.e. code splitting, lazy loading, tree-shaking, caching, etc…)
• Extensive experience and knowledge around best practices when it comes to testing. (Unit tests, e2e testing, etc…)
• Knowledge of web best practices and Web Vitals metrics
• Internationalization libraries (react-intl or react-i18next);
• Monorepo familiarity, i.e. Nx, Lerna, Turborepo.
• Previous experience with scalable architecture/systems serving thousands and millions of users seamlessly.
• Development with Security awareness, being aware of the top ten OWASP attack vectors to protect from. I.e. XSS, CSRF etc…