Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

digiLab is a pioneering AI company that helps enterprises transform complex challenges into innovation with uncertainty quantification, explainable AI and MLOps. Working with organisations in highly regulated or safety-critical industries to solve their complex engineering, infrastructure or data challenges, digiLab specialises in solving problems where data is sparse or uncertain. Having grown from a small team of leading mathematicians and data scientists, digiLab teaches your teams how to solve their grand challenges using a secure AI platform, alongside expert consultancy. digiLab's platform - the Uncertainty Engine is a no-code agentic AI platform that combines data, models and workflows to connect a trustworthy AI digital thread through an organisation.

This is a full-time role (Monday to Thursday), encompassing a broad range of software engineering, frontend development, and team management responsibilities.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong experience in React and Typescript, capable of leading the frontend development of our product. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering, a passion for creating user-centric interfaces, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

What You Will Be Doing With Us

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at digiLab, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and maintain high-quality frontend software solutions.
• Contributing to the architectural design, development, testing, and deployment of frontend applications.
• Developing applications with React and Typescript, ensuring a high-quality, scalable, and secure codebase.
• Applying security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment.
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and ensuring efficient deployment processes for frontend code.
• Championing “Scrum” and making strong contributions to team-process improvements.
• Collaborating with product management to understand and translate business requirements into technical frontend solutions.
• Providing technical support to customers and leading diagnosis and mitigation in incident management investigations.
• Ensuring adherence to RESTful API design principles.
  
  

What Skills We Are Looking For

• Degree-level qualification in a related field.
• Sufficient industry experience in software development.
• Expertise in React, and React's functional component paradigm, hooks, and custom hook patterns.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript.
• Expertise in CSS, and experience with a variety of modern CSS approaches.
• Ability to write logical, self-explanatory, and consistent code..
• Experience with user-account management and secure frontend development.
• Professional experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
• Strong understanding of frontend software design patterns, SOLID, DRY principles, and architectural patterns.
• Experience with Git/GitHub and best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of the software testing pyramid and automated testing (smoke, component, unit, performance, load, end-to-end).
• Understanding of UI/UX design principles and a keen eye for detail.
• Proven ability to collaborate in a fast-paced “agile” team, preferably using “scrum.”
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers.
  
  

In Addition, Some ‘nice To Haves' Are

• A Master's degree in a related field.
• Experience with AWS: IAM, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, API Gateway, ECR, EC2, Cognito.
• Experience with canvas/diagram libraries (like Reactflow, FlowChart.js, etc.).
• Knowledge of deployment-reliability engineering and reliability best practices.
• Experience with security best practices and frontend security concerns.
  
  

Location:

This role is based on-site at digiLab's offices on the Quay, Exeter.

Our Culture and Values

At digiLab, we prioritise work-life balance with a 4-day workweek (Monday to Thursday), offering a full-time salary and three-day weekends every week! Our team is built on strong connections, with regular socials like game nights, bouldering, and paddleboarding.

We foster a culture of innovation, trust, and collaboration. Our values include:

• Creativity & Agility: Encouraging innovation and flexibility in goal achievement.
• Trust & Responsibility: Supporting each other in taking calculated risks for bold innovation.
• Open & Honest Collaboration: Ensuring transparent communication and alignment.
• High-Performance Standards: Continuously challenging ourselves to excel in delivery.
• Value-Driven Work: Regularly assessing our contributions toward company goals.
  
  

Benefits

We value enthusiasm and loyalty, and we're committed to offering a great work-life balance. Along with the exciting challenges this role provides, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 4-day working week
• Competitive Salary
• BUPA private health care (via salary sacrifice)
• Discretionary EMI scheme (eligible to be considered after one year with the company; participation is not guaranteed and is entirely at the company's discretion.)
  
  

Please note that while we strive to respond to every applicant, due to the high volume of applications, we may not be able to provide feedback to every candidate.