Senior React Engineer - Contract
Posted 7 days ago by The Digital Recruitment Company
£650 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior React Engineer role is a contract position based in London, focusing on enhancing a product-led business's frontend platform. The position requires hands-on engineering skills, particularly in React and TypeScript, to build scalable user experiences. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance applications and improve the overall frontend architecture. This role offers the opportunity for significant impact and potential long-term engagement beyond the initial contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and scaling complex web applications using React and Next.js
- Contributing to a modern frontend architecture (component-driven, modular, scalable)
- Working closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver end-to-end features
- Improving performance, reliability, and maintainability across the frontend codebase
- Writing clean, testable code and contributing to engineering standards across the team
- Taking ownership of features from design through to production
Key Skills:
- Strong experience with React and TypeScript in production environments
- Experience building complex, user-facing applications (not just marketing sites)
- Exposure to Next.js or similar modern frameworks
- Experience working within component-based architectures or design systems
- Solid understanding of API integration (REST or GraphQL)
- Experience working in agile, product-led teams
- A track record of delivering features in fast-moving environments
- Experience with micro-frontends or large-scale frontend platforms (bonus)
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices (bonus)
- Experience in financial services, SaaS, or high-traffic platforms (bonus)
- Comfortable picking up light backend work where needed
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Senior React Engineer (Contract) Location: London (hybrid) Day rate: £500–£650 (outside IR35) Start: ASAP Duration: 6 months (likely extension)
Overview We’re working with a well-funded, product-led business undergoing a significant evolution of its frontend platform. This is not a greenfield “build a landing page” role. This is a core product engineering position , focused on building scalable, high-performance user experiences used daily by customers. You will be joining a team that values clean architecture, strong engineering standards, and pragmatic delivery .
What you’ll be doing
- Building and scaling complex web applications using React and Next.js
- Contributing to a modern frontend architecture (component-driven, modular, scalable)
- Working closely with product, design and backend teams to deliver end-to-end features
- Improving performance, reliability and maintainability across the frontend codebase
- Writing clean, testable code and contributing to engineering standards across the team
- Taking ownership of features from design through to production
What we’re looking for
This role is for hands-on engineers. You will likely have:
- Strong experience with React and TypeScript in production environments
- Experience building complex, user-facing applications (not just marketing sites)
- Exposure to Next.js or similar modern frameworks
- Experience working within component-based architectures or design systems
- Solid understanding of API integration (REST or GraphQL)
- Experience working in agile, product-led teams
- A track record of delivering features in fast-moving environments
Strong bonus
- Experience with micro-frontends or large-scale frontend platforms
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
- Experience in financial services, SaaS, or high-traffic platforms
- Comfortable picking up light backend work where needed
What we’re not looking for
To save everyone time, this role is not suited to:
- Backend-leaning engineers who “also do React”
- Purely agency or marketing website backgrounds
- Engineers without recent hands-on React experience
- Candidates who are not comfortable owning delivery
Why this role.
- High-impact work on a core product
- Strong engineering environment with modern tooling and practices
- Opportunity to shape how the frontend is built going forward
- Long-term potential beyond the initial contract