Front End Developer / Design Engineer
Summary
Six-month contract front-end/design engineer role with a major global bank, hybrid in Clerkenwell, London (2 office days/week), building accessible, high-performance institutional banking platform interfaces for payments, FX and treasury. Core stack is semantic HTML, modern CSS, strong JavaScript and native browser capabilities over heavy frameworks.
Salary: £76,000 - 96,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial experience as a Front-End Developer / Front-End Engineer
- Excellent HTML and CSS skills, including semantic HTML and modern CSS
- Strong JavaScript fundamentals
- Ability to build interfaces directly from requirements rather than relying on completed Figma designs
- Strong understanding of UX, interaction design and usability
- Excellent knowledge of web accessibility, including WCAG, screen readers, keyboard navigation and assistive technologies
- Strong understanding of browser performance and building lightweight, efficient front-end applications
- Preference for using native browser/platform capabilities rather than automatically introducing frameworks and unnecessary JavaScript
- Work closely with Product Owners and engineers to understand requirements
- Challenge solutions where appropriate
- Rapidly prototype ideas and build them directly into working applications
- Take requirements directly from Product Owners and turn them into working, production-quality interfaces from day one
- Support the development of highly functional, efficient and accessible user experiences for institutional banking platforms
- CSS
- Figma
- Support
- JavaScript
- Web
- UX UI Design
- Frontend
More:
We are a major global banking organisation working on the next generation of our institutional banking platforms. This is a Front-End Engineering role first and foremost, and we are looking for experienced Front-End Developers / Design Engineers who are hands-on and comfortable working directly from requirements rather than primarily from completed Figma designs. The role is based in London on a hybrid basis, with 2 days a week in the office, for an initial 6-month contract. The work supports complex institutional banking functions including global payments, FX, treasury services and client connectivity, with a focus on highly functional, efficient and accessible user experiences rather than heavily visual consumer-style interfaces. The rate is £425/day for mid-level and £525/day for senior candidates, inside IR35.
last updated 39 week of 2026
