Lead Web Developer - Hybrid Working

Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years' experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion.

Reporting to the Development Manager, the Lead Web Developer will be vital to the success of the architecture, engineering and AI pillar. The role leads the web engineering capability that brings our client-facing and internal portals to life, owning the technical direction, build quality, styling consistency and ongoing health of the portal estate. A core focus is building a high-performance web engineering culture, driving consistency so the estate reads as one coherent product, and delivering a great experience for our clients and colleagues.

• Lead the technical direction and delivery of our client-facing and internal portals, setting the standard for quality, performance, responsiveness, accessibility and security across every device and browser.
• Own front-end standards and styling governance, ensuring components, patterns and interactions are consistent across every portal.
• Ensure consistent design, a consistent experience and exceptional UX across the estate, in alignment with our corporate brand identity.
• Own the current portal estate, including its heritage applications, and take responsibility for its safe evolution.
• Lead the strategy to rationalise the estate, consolidating a fragmented set of internal and external portals toward unified architectures wherever achievable.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to the in-house web development team, setting standards, reviewing work and raising the capability of the people around you.
• Lead a blended delivery model, directing and assuring the quality of work produced by delivery-partner and augmented capacity alongside the in-house team.
• Own the definition and evolution of web engineering standards, tooling and ways of working, including disciplined code review, version control, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Ensure web delivery aligns with our information security and control standards.
• Evaluate and plan for the introduction of new technologies, tools and practices where they improve quality, consistency or delivery pace.
• Embed AI-first and automation-first ways of working into web engineering.
• Own and drive the web team's use of vibe-coding and AI prototyping tools, ensuring validated prototypes feed into the estate cleanly.
• Contribute to the wider conversation on citizen development and self-service app building.
• Build strong working relationships across architecture, engineering, assurance, design, delivery, and the marketing and brand teams.

Deep, hands-on expertise in modern web and front-end engineering, with strong command of Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS is required. Familiarity with Expo, or experience building cross-platform React applications, would be an advantage. A solid grasp of accessibility standards such as WCAG is essential, along with fluency in modern engineering practice, including version control, CI/CD, automated testing and a disciplined approach to code review. A strong sense for user experience, and the ability to build responsive interfaces that hold up across devices and browsers is necessary.

Experience using vibe-coding and AI prototyping tools, sound judgement on front-end security, and a proven track record of leading web or front-end teams is expected. Demonstrable experience consolidating or rationalising a portal or web application estate, and modernising heritage applications toward current standards is also required. A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience is preferred.