Senior Frontend Developer

Senior Front End Engineer – USA Tech Team Overall Ambition

Solve some of today's most complex hospitality challenges by building intuitive, high-performing digital experiences using modern frontend technologies. Help shape the technical direction of our customer-facing applications whilst delivering exceptional experiences across the USA.

We're looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join our passionate, lean, agile, fast-growing and evolving technology team on a permanent basis.

You’ll be an experienced frontend engineer who enjoys solving complex user experience challenges, building scalable web applications and helping those around you become better engineers. You’ll be comfortable owning large frontend initiatives from design through to production, influencing technical direction and driving engineering excellence across multiple teams.

You’ll remain hands‑on whilst acting as a trusted technical leader within the team.

As a Nandoca, you’ll embody the values that make Nando's unique. We’re looking for people who demonstrate:

• Pride – Take ownership of complex technical challenges, maintain high engineering standards and consistently deliver high-quality software.
• Passion – Bring curiosity, enthusiasm and a continuous learning mindset to solving customer problems and improving engineering practices.
• Courage – Challenge existing approaches, embrace change and confidently make informed technical decisions.
• Integrity – Act with honesty, transparency and accountability in every interaction and technical decision.
• Family – Support, mentor and collaborate with teammates, helping create an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.

These values shape how we work together, make decisions and build technology that moves Nando's forward.

As a Senior Front End Engineer, you’ll design, build, deploy and operate modern, high-quality web applications that power the Nando's digital experience across the USA.

You’ll partner closely with Technical Leads, Product Managers, UX Designers and fellow engineers to create fast, accessible and engaging customer experiences whilst helping shape the frontend architecture across our digital platform.

You’ll be trusted to independently lead complex frontend initiatives, mentor engineers across the team and champion engineering best practice.

• Lead frontend technical discovery and solution design for complex initiatives.
• Build reusable, scalable and accessible component libraries.
• Translate UX designs into responsive, high-quality user interfaces.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, testing strategies and frontend standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Own frontend applications throughout their lifecycle using a “You build it, you run it” mindset.
• Improve performance, accessibility, security and developer experience across our applications.
• Contribute to frontend architecture and engineering strategy alongside Technical Leads and Principal Engineers.
• Champion the effective use of AI‑assisted engineering tools to improve delivery whilst maintaining engineering quality.

Our team's objective is to bring the same high-quality digital experience that customers enjoy in the UK and Ireland to customers across the USA.

To achieve this, we build and evolve the services powering our customer journeys across:

• Locate
• Menu
• Payments
• Orders
• Loyalty
• Identity
• Web & Mobile Applications

As a Senior Front End Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and delivering the customer-facing experiences across these domains.

You’ll work closely with backend engineers, Product Managers and Designers to build intuitive, responsive and accessible applications that delight customers while remaining scalable, resilient and easy to evolve.

You’ll collaborate with other engineering teams across Customer Digital, helping align frontend standards, improve shared libraries and continually enhance our engineering ecosystem.

Our Senior Front End Engineers are technical leaders who remain close to the code whilst helping the wider engineering organisation succeed.

You’ll:

• Design and build modern, scalable and accessible frontend applications.
• Lead technical implementation of complex frontend initiatives from discovery through production.
• Develop reusable UI components and shared design system capabilities.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Technical Leads and backend engineers to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, coaching and constructive code reviews.
• Drive improvements to frontend engineering standards, tooling and development practices.