Senior Frontend Engineer

Front End Engineer (React) — Greenfield AI-Enabled Platforms | Global Financial Services | Manchester (Hybrid, 2 days)

React, micro-frontends, real-time UIs and LLM-powered experiences - greenfield builds, not maintenance work

.A global financial services organisation is investing heavily in its Manchester engineering hub, building out a portfolio of next-generation customer and colleague experience platforms. Legacy systems are being retired and replaced with modern, real-time, intelligent interfaces used at serious scale - millions of customers, thousands of internal users - with AI-driven and agentic experiences being designed in from day one

.We're looking for Front End Engineers to join at the early stages and help shape both the products and the engineering standards behind them

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What you'll

• doBuild and scale modern React applications using micro-frontend architectu
• reCreate real-time, responsive user experiences using technologies like WebSocke
• tsOwn UI implementation end-to-end — component design, styling, and design-system thinking using modern UI librari
• esHelp integrate LLM-powered interactions and define what agentic workflows look like in a regulated environme
• ntWork in close collaboration with product, design and engineering teams that actually sh

ipWhat we're looking f

• orStrong React and modern front-end fundamenta
• lsWorked in larger organisatio
• nsExperience with micro-frontends or other scalable UI architectur
• esReal-time technologies (WebSockets or similar) in producti
• onGenuine craft in CSS, styling and component desi
• gnInterest or experience in AI/LLM integration at the UI layer — curiosity matters more than expertise he
• reComfortable with ambiguity and evolving requirements; this is a build environment, not a ticket facto

ryThe packa

• gePermanent role, Manchester city centre, hybrid working (2 days in offic
• e)Competitive salary + annual bonus, strong pension and benefi
• tsModern front-end engineering at genuine scale, in an organisation investing properly in its te