Senior Frontend Software Engineer - Web

About the company

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. In this role, you will design and build the front end of our brand websites, migrating our portfolio onto a new headless content platform (Contentstack).

Your tasks

You will work closely with the technology and marketing teams to deliver reusable component libraries that can serve our many brands from a shared codebase, supporting a rolling schedule of brand go-lives.

• Consume content from our headless CMS (Contentstack) via its APIs, agreeing content models and API contracts
• Build and maintain a reusable, themeable component library and page templates that serve multiple brands from a shared codebase
• Design and develop commercial/enterprise web applications, owning the architecture of the shared front-end platform
• Translate brand design systems and designs into accessible, responsive and high performing front-end code
• Deliver to defined standards for Core Web Vitals, WCAG accessibility and technical SEO, including structured data to support search and AI-driven discovery
• Provide technical leadership for the front end, including setting coding standards, supporting code reviews and mentoring other engineers
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Support rolling brand go-lives, including theme onboarding, cross-browser and device testing, cutover support and post-launch fixes

Requirements

Essential

• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web architectures, specifically React and server-side rendering or static site generation (e.g. Next.js, Node.js)
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale front-end applications
• Strong HTML5 and CSS skills, including responsive design and design-token based theming
• Experience building component libraries or design systems
• Strong knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and web performance optimisation
• Experience consuming REST or GraphQL APIs, ideally from a headless CMS
• Developing and maintaining multiple connected software solutions
• Skilled in software testing methodologies including TDD, and front-end test tooling
• Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines and cloud hosting, ideally Azure
• Experience of working with AI in a software engineering team

Highly Desirable

• Experience with a headless CMS such as Contentstack, Contentful or similar
• Knowledge of technical SEO, structured data and search/AI visibility optimisation
• Awareness of .NET and C# back-end services
• Experience of large website migration or multi-brand, multi-site programmes
• Experience with Storybook and visual regression testing
• Experience with Azure and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)

What we offer

• Aviva Digicare + workplace / Car leasing and cycle to work scheme
• Colleague discount scheme / Perks at work / Gym discounts
• Life assurance / Workplace pension scheme
• Collaborative agile environment
• Ongoing professional development

Other

We offer a hybrid working arrangement with 2 days per week in our Milton Keynes office.

Our Commitment to Inclusion Connells Group is an equal opportunities employer committed to a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of *, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.