- Company Name
- VirtueTech Recruitment Group
- Job Title
- Frontend React Engineer | TypeScript | MUI/Material-UI | Digital Wealth & Investment Management | Up To £700 Inside IR35 | Hybrid London
- Job Description
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Job Title: Frontend React Engineer
Role Summary
Contract (6 months, potential extension) focused on greenfield conversion of five acquired WordPress sites to a unified React/TypeScript/MUI stack for a digital wealth & investment management firm. The role requires standardizing branding, implementing multi‑lingual and regulatory features across multiple jurisdictions, and delivering high‑quality front‑end solutions that meet financial services standards.
Expectations
- Deliver performant, maintainable code within sprint cycles.
- Collaborate with designers, back‑end developers, and product managers to translate wireframes and business requirements into scalable UI components.
- Ensure compliance with industry‑specific regulatory and privacy constraints.
- Advocate for engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and adherence to best practices.
Key Responsibilities
1. Rewrite existing WordPress websites into React applications using TypeScript and Material‑UI, preserving functionality and user experience.
2. Build reusable, responsive components and theming that align with corporate branding across multiple domains.
3. Implement internationalisation (i18n) and localisation to support multiple languages and regional regulations.
4. Write unit, integration, and accessibility tests (Jest, React Testing Library); maintain automated test coverage.
5. Participate in code reviews, refactoring, and knowledge sharing; propose tooling and process enhancements.
6. Deploy front‑end updates via CI/CD pipelines, ensuring zero‑downtime releases and monitoring.
Required Skills
- 3+ years of commercial React.js development with a strong grasp of the component lifecycle, hooks, and context API.
- Expertise in TypeScript, strong typing, and generic patterns.
- Proficient with Material‑UI/MUI component library, theming, and styling solutions.
- Experience working with WordPress (headless or REST API) is an advantage.
- Solid understanding of financial markets, trading, and regulatory constraints relevant to payment and FX services.
- Familiarity with internationalisation frameworks (react‑i18next, formatjs).
- Test‑driven development using Jest, React Testing Library; knowledge of E2E testing tools (Cypress, Playwright) welcomed.
- Version control (Git), continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines, and collaboration tools (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate quality standards to cross‑functional teams.
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- Prior experience in regulated financial or fintech environments is mandatory; certifications in financial compliance are a plus.