Principal Web Engineer (Angular)

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it’s for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication—all of which we pass on to our customers. MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allows you to focus on what’s most important to you - work that matters.

Your Career: Elevate your career by joining MHR, the pioneering SaaS company leading the charge in the UK. We’re on the lookout for a visionary Principal Web Engineer to join the PeopleFirst product team.

Your Team: You’ll be part of our dynamic People First engineering team, where you’ll work with the most cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with experts, and contribute to the rapid growth of our PeopleFirst SaaS system.

Your Impact: As a Principal Web Engineer at MHR, you’re not just writing code – you’re architecting the future of software solutions. You’ll drive excellence in every aspect, from user interface design to maintaining a high-quality code base, collaborating with like-minded Web Developers, shaping innovative solutions, and coaching the team to tackle complex business challenges head-on.

Working hybrid with 3 days a week in our Ruddington Head Office, your role will be to govern and contribute to the web codebase, driving technology, process and people change to ensure sustainable web delivery across the department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate seamlessly with delivery, platform, and architecture teams to align the functional roadmap with uncompromising quality of service.
• Lead the way by governing and actively contributing to the evolution of our web codebase through hands-on development.
• Transform ground-breaking ideas into reality, producing proof of concepts to de-risk delivery and elucidate intricate concepts.
• Elevate coding standards by automating processes, ensuring extensive test coverage for sustainable delivery.
• Provide essential guidance during planning, design reviews, and incident management to empower web engineers.
• Cultivate consensus among peers on cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
• Play a vital role in recruitment campaigns, hiring highly skilled engineers, and shaping the interview process to enhance efficiency.
• Develop, coach and mentor juniors on the team, supporting their professional growth and establishing personal development plans.

What you’ll bring to the role and MHR:

• Experience working on and building modern enterprise Angular applications.
• Solid understanding of HTML/HTML5, JavaScript/Typescript, CSS/SASS.
• Good understanding of Accessibility, Responsive and Adaptive design, working with UX/UI design documents.
• Knowledge of Web security, RESTful Web Services.
• Experience with modern unit testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of RESTful architecture and API design principles.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering concepts such as design patterns, SOLID principles, polymorphism, and threading.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services for cloud-based development.
• Experience with advising on common UX components within a design system using technologies such as Storybook.

Benefits to support you personally and professionally:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs.
• 24/7 access to a GP through SmartHealth for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave.
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays.
• Enhanced Family leave.
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers.
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards.
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000.
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs.
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily.
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage.

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment. At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported. Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.