Foresters Financial UK
Frontend Developer
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Frontend Developer (React & React Native) – 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
We’re looking for an experienced Frontend Developer to join our Digital Solutions team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
About the Role
In this hands-on position, you’ll play a key part in growing our digital platform by delivering intuitive omni-channel services for our customers, whilst enhancing the workflows and systems that support our customer-facing teams.
You’ll be involved across the full development lifecycle, from collaborating with the business to understand customer needs, through design and build, to testing and release. Strong React and React Native expertise, a passion for clean, scalable front-end development, and a customer-first mindset will be essential to your success.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain web applications using React
- Develop and support mobile applications using React Native
- Integrate applications using RESTful APIs
- Deploy applications and support releases into production
- Build responsive, accessible, and well-structured user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Contribute to front-end architecture and application design
- Collaborate with the business, architects, and multi-skilled team members to gather requirements and shape solutions
- Take ownership of projects from concept through to delivery
- Estimate, prioritise, and manage workloads effectively across the development lifecycle
- Ensure solutions meet technical standards and business needs
- Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and best practices in web and mobile development
- Support and coach other team members where appropriate
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Working Arrangements
- Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Start times: Flexible between 8.30am and 9.30am
- Hybrid working: Available a minimum of 2 office days per week
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Requirements
- Proven experience in React JS and React Native
- Strong experience with Redux Toolkit
- Solid understanding of modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience building secure, customer-facing front-end applications
- Ability to work with web services that integrate with external systems
- Experience designing or collaborating closely with APIs
- (.NET / C# experience is desirable but not essential)
- Confident communicator, capable of working effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Life Assurance (based on pensionable earnings)
- Contributory Pension scheme
- 1 day paid charitable workday per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
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