hedgehog lab
Frontend Engineer - React / Next.js (Contract)
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Accessibility isn't a checkbox on this one, it's the point. We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to build customer-facing interfaces for a large regulated UK organisation, where the people using them include those who depend on the service working properly. React, Next and TypeScript, built to a genuinely high bar.
What You'll Do
- Build accessible, high-quality interfaces in React, Next.js and TypeScript.
- Ship through Vercel and manage content with Contentful.
- Work closely with design to get the details right.
- Hold a high bar for accessibility across everything you build.
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What We're Looking For
- Strong React, Next.js and TypeScript.
- Experience with Vercel and a headless CMS, Contentful ideally.
- A real understanding of web accessibility and WCAG.
- Care for performance and usability, not just shipping features.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.
Bonus points for experience building for users with a wide range of access needs.
About Hedgehog Lab
We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.
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The Details
- Contract, outside IR35.
- 3 to 6 months, with potential to extend.
- Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.
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