Job reference: G06
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 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 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 computer science or 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 a full-time role (Monday - Thursday) based on-site at digiLab’s offices on the Quay, Exeter.
Our Culture & Values:
At digiLab, we prioritize 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 after one year with the company)
If you're excited about shaping the future of AI and working on innovative projects that make a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!