Senior Software Engineer

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 while 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 while acting as a trusted technical leader within the team.

• 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 while 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 practices.

You’ll also:

• 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 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 while maintaining engineering quality.
• Build comprehensive automated testing and continuously improve test coverage.
• Optimize application performance, responsiveness and Core Web Vitals.
• Own frontend services in production, including monitoring, observability and continuous improvement.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for frontend applications.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and ongoing service improvements.
• Champion accessibility (WCAG), usability and responsive design best practices.
• Continuously explore emerging technologies, including AI‑assisted software development, to improve engineering effectiveness.

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…