Frontend Developer in Amersham

VIKASO LTD is a UK-based robotics company redefining how industrial robots are deployed, controlled, and scaled. We are building next-generation hardware and software platforms that abstract complexity, standardise integration, and enable rapid adoption of robotics across manufacturing and logistics environments.

Our approach centres on robot-agnostic technologies that transform robotics from fragmented systems into a scalable, productised platform. While enabling automation at scale, our focus remains on advancing robotics, making robots easier to deploy, more intelligent to operate, and more reliable in production. At the intersection of software, control systems, and mechatronics, we are building a globally scalable robotics platform that will define the future of industrial automation.

In this role, you will leverage extensive real-world experience gained from deploying advanced engineering solutions across manufacturing, aerospace, and logistics environments. You will translate these learnings into clean, efficient, well-structured and user-friendly software systems that remove redundancy, streamline workflows, and improve overall performance. You will be responsible for designing and delivering polished, performant frontend applications that handle real-time telemetry, interactive dashboards, and configuration workflows. A key part of the role is managing UI complexity, replacing cluttered or fragmented interfaces with clean, composable component architectures that scale with the platform. Your work should not be limited to incremental improvements. You will challenge existing UI patterns, rethink how users interact with complex systems, and raise the bar for frontend quality, delivering interfaces that make previous implementations feel outdated by comparison. This is an opportunity to build high-quality frontend software that simplifies complex industrial problems and delivers meaningful impact through exceptional user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain our frontend platform, including real-time UI components (WebSockets / live data updates), configurable dashboard and monitoring systems, data visualisation and charting for robot telemetry and system metrics, and consistent, responsive, and performant user interfaces across devices.
• Follow platform UI conventions & standards.
• Help evolve platform UI conventions, standards, and accessibility guidelines.
• Optimise rendering performance for data-heavy, frequently updating views.
• Architect and maintain a scalable component library and design system.
• Implement robust state management for complex, real-time application state.
• Design & work with SQL database schemas (tables, relationships, indexes, constraints), data modeling for robot/system telemetry (time-series and event data), and query and storage optimisation for real-time workloads (indexing, partitioning).
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code aligned with team standards.
• Contribute to code reviews and improve overall code quality.
• Contribute to documentation and shared development knowledge.
• Follow established CI/CD workflows and deployment practices.
• Contribute to frontend documentation, patterns, and shared development knowledge.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional frontend development experience.
• Strong portfolio of React or Vue based UI work, ideally involving real-time or data-intensive applications.
• Deep understanding of modern JavaScript/TypeScript and the browser platform (DOM, layout, rendering pipeline).
• Solid experience with state management solutions (e.g. Redux, Zustand, Pinia, or similar).
• Proficiency in CSS/SCSS and responsive design, including CSS Grid and Flexbox.
• Experience with RESTful and WebSocket API integration on the client side.
• Familiarity with modern frontend build tooling (e.g. Vite, Webpack) and developer tooling (ESLint, Prettier).
• Experience with component testing and end-to-end testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Cypress).
• Comfortable working with Git, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable navigating large, interlinked codebases.
• Interest in robotics, real-time systems, or scientific/industrial applications.

Preferred Experience:

• Built data-heavy dashboards and monitoring tools that present telemetry clearly and reliably.
• Experience building or contributing to a design system or component library (e.g. using Storybook).
• Exposure to robotics systems, ROS, or C++ integrations.
• Exposure to WebGL, Canvas API, or 3D visualisation (e.g. Three.js) for robotics interfaces.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.
• Understanding of backend concepts (REST API design, SQL basics) to collaborate effectively with backend engineers.
• Experience with multi-service or modular platforms (microservices, plugins, modules).
• Understanding of performance optimisation for real-time UIs (rendering strategies, virtualisation, scheduling, profiling with browser DevTools).
• Experience with data visualisation libraries (e.g. D3.js, Chart.js, Recharts, or similar).
• Familiarity with Docker-based development environments.
• A bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.