Frontend Engineer - React / Next.js (Contract)
hedgehog lab · Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Business Consulting and Services · 51-200 employees
About the role
Build high-quality, accessible customer-facing interfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Collaborate with design teams and manage content via Contentful and Vercel to ensure high usability standards.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires strong proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and a deep understanding of WCAG accessibility standards. Experience with headless CMS (Contentful) and AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot is expected.
Full description
Accessibility isn't a checkbox on this one, it's the point. We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to build customer-facing interfaces for a large regulated UK organisation, where the people using them include those who depend on the service working properly. React, Next and TypeScript, built to a genuinely high bar.
What you'll do:
- Build accessible, high-quality interfaces in React, Next.js and TypeScript.
- Ship through Vercel and manage content with Contentful.
- Work closely with design to get the details right.
- Hold a high bar for accessibility across everything you build.
What we're looking for:
- Strong React, Next.js and TypeScript.
- Experience with Vercel and a headless CMS, Contentful ideally.
- A real understanding of web accessibility and WCAG.
- Care for performance and usability, not just shipping features.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.
Bonus points for experience building for users with a wide range of access needs.
About hedgehog lab:
We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.
We're a certified B Corp.
We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.
The details:
- Contract, outside IR35.
- 3 to 6 months, with potential to extend.
- Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.
Apply below and I'll be in touch.
