Senior Front End Engineer in Slough

Working at our iconic office in King's Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Your new role at NewDay:

As a Senior Software Engineer you will develop innovative products, services and interfaces for our customers and partners. Key contributor to web design and architecture to deliver the best user experience. We expect engineers to have the desire of curiosity, passion, a driven, enthusiastic mentality, to be proficient in algorithms, problem solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. Effective communication is an attribute we care deeply about, as an engineer you and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment to achieve outstanding results.

What You Will Be Doing:

• You will contribute to business-critical acquisition journeys for cards and loans, building and enhancing high-traffic, customer-facing websites and campaign experiences.
• Alongside delivery, you actively mentor and share knowledge with other front-end teams, helping raise engineering standards and drive better outcomes across the organisation.

Your Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Strong communication skills with both stakeholders and technical engineers.
• Advanced React experience using TypeScript.
• Strong Node.js knowledge for service and API development.
• Solid testing experience covering code quality, security, customer journeys, and accessibility.
• Excellent knowledge of writing semantic, accessible, and modular front-end code.
• Experience integrating with services via RESTful APIs.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies.
• Practical experience setting up and running CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with cloud platform services.
• Familiarity with Storybook, atomic design principles, and design language systems.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Azure cloud platform services.
• Experience working with monorepo project structures using tools such as Turborepo or Nx.
• Experience being on call, with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Azure AppInsights, Grafana).
• Experience with web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1/2.2).

Where next?

In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.

About NewDay:

We help people move forward with credit, and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too. We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO. Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture:

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.

We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.

At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.

NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.

Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).