Lead Front End Software Engineer; TypeScript, React, Angular and AWS

Lead Front End Software Engineer (Type Script, React, Angular and AWS)

Slalom
Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Slalom is a global, human‑centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology, and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end‑to‑end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients.

We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

Our Software Engineering team builds the core applications and services that power our products and deliver value to users around the world. We focus on creating scalable, secure, and high‑performance systems that enable rapid innovation and seamless user experiences. By leveraging modern engineering practices and cloud‑native technologies, we aim to reduce complexity, accelerate delivery, and continuously improve our platforms.

We’re excited to welcome Software Engineering Leads/Architects to our London team to help drive forward our mission of building world‑class software.

A Software Engineering Lead/Architect plays a fundamental role in shaping and delivering amazing software solutions to client challenges during discovery and delivery. You will partner with clients to understand the technical and functional challenges they are facing as well as develop implementation and delivery plans that take advantage of emerging technologies ing client delivery you will collaborate with Solution Owners, Quality Engineers and Experience Designers to ensure that world class user experiences are understood, validation procedures are aligned and automation components are delivered.

Within our capability you’ll be seeking to develop and grow your skills, guide and mentor less experienced team members whilst advocating for progression of our capability on exciting frontiers such as Machine Learning and Generative AI.

• Applying clean code principles and scalable software design patterns.
• Drive containerisation using Docker and manage orchestration via Kubernetes or AWS ECS/EKS to support scalable deployments.
• Develop secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, leveraging services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB and RDS to support full‑stack applications.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline, or similar tools to enable rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver seamless integrations between frontend applications, backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Foster a culture of inclusion and engineering excellence, mentoring teams and promoting well‑being, diversity, and collaboration across the organisation.

• Experience building and scaling React applications using Type Script in production environments.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services, including deployment, automation and infrastructure management.
• An understanding of Dev Ops practices, including CI/CD, containerisation and observability.
• Experience with Docker, supporting scalable and maintainable deployments.
• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools to ensure operational excellence and proactive issue resolution.
• A collaborative and mentoring mindset, passionate about sharing knowledge and driving engineering best practices.

We have deep relationships with leading technology partners and they love us for our innovative and outcome based approach. Our people are passionate about solving our clients problems using the tech that’s the best solution for them. What’s more, we’re there to work side‑by‑side with our client teams to enable them for success long after we’ve gone. We’re all about momentum that outlasts us.

Life is busy, and we understand that. Our team often juggles work, family, personal commitments, and crucial client obligations. We prioritise…