Senior Frontend Developer
Posted Today by North Scout
£450 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The UI Developer (React) role involves working on a significant internal digital platform for a large UK insurance organization. This hands-on position requires building robust user interfaces and collaborating with various engineering and product teams. The developer will have ownership over front-end standards and component design, ensuring maintainability as the platform scales. The role is contract-based, outside IR35, and offers a hybrid working arrangement in the West Midlands.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing UI for a major insurance platform used across the business
- Creating and maintaining reusable UI components
- Improving front-end structure and technical standards
- Collaborating with back-end engineers, architects, and product teams
Key Skills:
- Strong commercial experience with React (senior level)
- Solid experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript
- Proven experience building reusable component libraries
- Experience integrating with APIs and working in structured enterprise environments
- Azure experience, ideally Azure DevOps, Repos & Feeds
- Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across tech and business
- Background working on large enterprise platforms (nice to have)
- Experience in regulated environments (insurance, finance, banking) (nice to have)
- Exposure to complex internal systems and legacy integration (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): £450/day
City: West Midlands
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
UI Developer (React) – Contract (Outside IR35) £450/day 3-month initial Hybrid (West Midlands) North Scout are recruiting a UI Developer for a large UK insurance organisation, working on a major internal digital platform used across multiple business units. This is a UI-led Front-End role focused on building robust, scalable user interfaces for complex, high-volume systems. It’s not a greenfield toy app – it’s proper enterprise engineering. You’ll be joining a small, senior product team and will have real ownership over front-end standards, component design, and UI quality across the platform.
The Role This is a hands-on UI Developer position, working in a close-knit delivery team, while collaborating with multiple engineering, data, and product teams across the organisation. You’ll be responsible for building reusable UI components, improving front-end architecture, and ensuring the platform remains maintainable as it scales. This suits someone who’s comfortable working in large systems with lots of moving parts.
Core Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience with React (senior level) Solid experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript Proven experience building reusable component libraries Experience integrating with APIs and working in structured enterprise environments Azure experience, ideally Azure DevOps, Repos & Feeds Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across tech and business Nice to have Background working on large enterprise platforms Experience in regulated environments (insurance, finance, banking) Exposure to complex internal systems and legacy integration
What You’ll Be Doing Developing UI for a major insurance platform used across the business Creating and maintaining reusable UI components Improving front-end structure and technical standards Collaborating with back-end engineers, architects, and product teams Contract Details £450/day – Outside IR35 3-month initial contract (likely to extend)