Lead Front-End Development

Job Description

We are a fast-growing Insur Tech organisation delivering modern, cloud-native solutions to the insurance market. Our platforms are hosted entirely within AWS and power critical workflows across claims, underwriting and customer engagement.

We operate in cross-functional Agile squads and place strong emphasis on engineering excellence, Dev Ops maturity and continuous improvement.

We are seeking an experienced and hands‑on Lead Front-End Developer to provide technical leadership across our front-end estate. You will be responsible for setting standards, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers and ensuring consistent, high‑quality front‑end delivery across multiple products built in Angular, VueJS and React.

This role combines technical depth with leadership influence. You will work closely with Product, UX, Back‑End, Dev Ops and Architecture to deliver scalable, secure and performant user experiences.

• Define and maintain front‑end architecture standards across all products.
• Lead design decisions around component architecture, state management and performance optimisation.
• Ensure consistency in patterns, frameworks and tooling across Angular, VueJS and React applications.
• Drive modern front‑end best practices including accessibility, responsiveness and security.

• Promote high‑quality code through peer reviews and coding standards.
• Champion automated testing (unit, integration, E2E) and CI/CD best practices.
• Work closely with Dev Ops to ensure optimal deployment pipelines.
• Support observability and monitoring strategies (e.g. logging, telemetry, performance tracking).

• Collaborate with back‑end teams to define API contracts and integration standards.
• Ensure front‑end solutions are optimised for AWS‑hosted, cloud‑native architectures.
• Contribute to decisions around authentication and authorisation (e.g. OKTA).

• Mentor and coach full‑stack developers across squads.
• Support career development, technical growth and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to Communities of Practice and technical forums.

• Work within Scrum‑based delivery teams.
• Contribute to refinement, estimation and Definition of Ready / Done standards.
• Support predictable delivery with strong say/do discipline and JIRA hygiene.

• Significant experience building and leading modern front‑end applications.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in Angular, VueJS and/or React.
• Deep understanding of JavaScript / Type Script.
• Experience with state management patterns (Redux, Vuex, NgRx or similar).
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs and working within microservice architectures.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and version control.

• Experience working within AWS‑hosted environments.
• Knowledge of authentication/authorisation patterns in distributed systems.
• Experience with performance monitoring tools and observability frameworks.
• Familiarity with Open Telemetry or modern logging frameworks.
• Exposure to Dev Sec Ops  tooling (e.g. Snyk).
• Experience leading cross‑squad technical initiatives.

• Strong communicator, able to influence both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Pragmatic decision‑maker with a focus on delivering business value.
• High standards for professionalism and operational discipline.
• Collaborative mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, evolving Insur Tech environment.

• Consistent, scalable front‑end architecture across all products.
• Improved performance, maintainability and developer experience.
• Clear technical standards adopted across squads.
• Increased reusability and reduced duplication of front‑end components.
• Strong mentorship culture and uplift in front‑end capability.

For more than 50 years, Verisk has helped property and casualty insurers make smarter decisions about risk through AI‑powered risk modeling, advanced analytics, and technology solutions spanning the entire policy lifecycle. We are a leading strategic data, analytics, and technology partner to the…