Front End Developer

Salary: Salary up to £50,000 • Location: Manchester

Front End Developer

Salary up to £50,000

Location

Manchester (office-first working policy; office-first to foster collaboration, alignment, and community)

Reports to

Development Lead

Hours of work

37.5 hours per week. Flexi-time model with a 7.5-hour day (start as early as 8:00 or finish as late as 18:00), core collaboration hours between 10:00 and 16:00. Office-first emphasis to support high-touch leadership, team cohesion, and cross-functional influence.

Day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to the below:

Feature Development (70%): Dive deep into the creation of our SaaS products, working alongside a dynamic, cross-functional team, getting involved in every stage from brainstorming sessions to deployment, ensuring that our solutions not only meet but exceed our high standards and delight our customers.

Technical Development (20%): As with all software, it’s not only what our customers see that makes it successful. Your role will include analysis, proposal and execution of technical improvements to give us the best foundation for our software evolution, as well as opportunities to improve tooling and processes.

Personal Development (10%): At BrightHR, growth is a constant. Allocate time to your knowledge, keeping abreast of the latest industry trends, tools, and techniques to push your capabilities and our solutions forward.

Required skills and experience

Essential:

Client-side Typescript

Modern React development (Hooks, Context, React Query)

Unit & Component testing using React Testing Library

Advanced version control using Git

Working with REST API’s

CSS

Desirable:

Experience using Cloudflare workers.

Performance optimisation experience (caching, query structuring)

Well-versed in accessibility best practice (keyboard support, screen readers, form usability)

Knowledge of various front-end architectural patterns

Experience with Observability as a practice (e.g. TrackJs, Sentry, GA)

Component library development using Storybook

Knowledge of E2E testing

Key competencies and attributes

A hands-on engineer with a love for technology and a strong belief in producing high-quality, resilient services with an aspiration to achieve engineering excellence.

Nimble and adaptable, with the ability to quickly adjust to new challenges and be pragmatic when required.

Proactive in seeking out and evaluating emerging technologies that can add value to the platform.

Demonstrable experience in technical delivery and Agile methodologies.

You love face-to-face collaboration and being part of a close-knit tech community.

Ambitious & passionate with a desire to develop your skills alongside your peers.

You’re comfortable interacting with both technical & non-technical stakeholders.

You understand and promote robust testing strategies to ensure code reliability and quality.

BrightHR Benefits

Enhanced holidays – 25 days increasing to 27 after 2 years’ service and 28 after 5 years’ service (22 Days for Field Sales)

Private health care cover after 5 years’ service

New business referral scheme

Access to Health Shield

Access to the EAP service

Refer a friend scheme

Paid birthday leave

Pension scheme contribution increasing to 5% after 5 years’ service and again to 7% after 7 years’ service

Group life insurance

Eye care contribution

Free fruit (office-based staff)

Travel Season Ticket loan scheme

Milestone recognition

Discounted products – Manchester City centre parking (AO Arena) / First Bus Travel Club Membership / Microsoft Home User programme / Anglian Home Improvements

Pace health Club (situated in the park Inn) discounted gym membership and spa treatments

Park Inn 20% food and drink discount

New Century 20% food and drink discount

Revolution De Cuba 20% food and drink discount

Cycle 2 Work scheme* after probationary period

On site Gym

Bright Exchange perks

Values & Behaviours

Living the company values of We care, We take action, we innovate, we inform, and we do the right thing

We lead by example and recognise those living our values

We drive the narrative by inspiring and engaging our team

We collaborate with rigor and embrace diversity of thought

We deliver with a united voice

We take ownership by staying close to team performance by Super Coaching and Walking the Walk

We keep our approach simple and stick to the playbook to deliver on promise

We think critically and commercially, assess the situation before jumping to the solution

We are BrightHR; the only software powered by HR, health & safety, and legal experts. Everything you need to simply manage your staff, all in one place, PLUS free tools to set your business apart.

We are a people business. The market moves quickly and so do we. We put the customer first, working hard and always looking ahead, purposefully innovating to ensure peace of mind.

BrightHR is an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, committed to diversity and inclusion without regard to protected characteristics