Front End Web Developer in Köln

We are looking for an experienced front-end web developer to join our growing engineering organization (headquartered in Reigate, ~300 engineers) developing a wide range of market leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications.

As a front-end web development lead, you will be working across multiple flexible agile squads delivering value on multiple greenfield workstreams in the delivery family. You will play a key role in designing and creating new features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the foundational components continue to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

The Role

• Bring expertise and best practice having worked on professional, production-grade web applications, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-native context.
• Use agentic systems to speed up UI development.
• Work with the Product Manager and/or Product Owner to define, refine, and deliver the product backlog.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of frontend architecture within an NX monorepo, ensuring consistency of approach across the team.
• Collaborate with UX designers working in Figma to iterate on high-quality, accessible GUI implementations from wireframes and design assets.
• Champion and enforce WCAG 2 accessibility standards across all UI deliverables.
• Implement product code following best practices for maintainability, testability, and performance, including unit tests with Vitest and end-to-end tests with Playwright.
• Review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks, and technical debt within a modern Angular/NestJS stack.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve team velocity and engineering practices.
• Address UI governance requirements covering security, accessibility, and performance.

Qualifications

• The technology stack is Angular, NestJS (BFF), NX monorepo, tRPC, SCSS, C# and Azure, deployed via Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Angular (v17+), TypeScript, HTML, and SCSS, with hands-on experience in a component-driven, SPA architecture.
• Experience working within an NX monorepo structure, understanding workspace organisation, library boundaries, and build optimisation.
• Actively use AI-assisted development tooling and have contributed to evolving best practices around prompt-driven development workflows.
• Familiarity with NgRx Signal Store or equivalent reactive state management patterns.
• Experience with NestJS or a comparable Node.js BFF layer, and comfort working across a tRPC-based API contract.
• Solid understanding of WCAG 2 accessibility requirements and practical experience implementing them in Angular applications.
• Ability to translate Figma designs into polished, pixel-accurate, responsive UI implementations.
• Experience writing unit tests with Vitest (or Jest) and e2e tests with Playwright.
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code review workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including authoring and maintaining YAML-based pipeline definitions.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development in a commercial or production environment.
• Strong appreciation of UX principles and the ability to work collaboratively with a dedicated UX team.

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Ability to architect high-performance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug fixing activities.
• Experience in guiding teams in UX strategy, implementations, and reviews.
• Experience using VS Code, Azure DevOps and Git.
• Experience with Azure.
• Experience with Cypress and other unit testing tools.
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline.

What we offer

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You'll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company. We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@wtwco.com.