Senior Front End Engineer (CMS)

Senior Front-End Engineer (CMS, DevOps, Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid. Three days in the Shoreditch studio, two days remote

Type: Full-time, permanent

Start date: ASAP

Are you a senior front-end engineer who loves solving problems, improving systems, and bringing order to fast-paced agency workflows? This role blends hands-on front-end development with DevOps, infrastructure, and CMS expertise to create stability, efficiency, and consistency across multiple digital projects.

Join a creative, purpose-led digital consultancy where your impact will be immediate and visible across the entire studio.

About the Role

You will sit at the intersection of:

• Front-end engineering

• CMS implementation (CraftCMS or similar headless CMS)

• DevOps, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines

Around 60% of your time will be spent modernising systems, optimising deployments, managing servers and improving workflows. The remaining 40% will be hands-on front-end engineering, building elegant digital experiences in collaboration with designers and other developers.

You will be the technical anchor for the team, providing direction, improving development standards, and freeing the Technical Director from day-to-day firefighting.

What You’ll Do

• Own infrastructure: server configuration, deployments, Nginx setups, troubleshooting, environment management

• Lead CMS implementations and integrations, ideally CraftCMS or similar headless systems

• Modernise and consolidate the studio’s current development workflows and environments

• Build scalable component libraries and improve code consistency across client projects

• Support and mentor front-end developers, helping them learn outside the Nuxt/Vue ecosystem

• Solve technical challenges quickly and pragmatically (“figure it out” mindset)

• Work closely with project managers, communicating clearly without technical jargon

• Evaluate tech stack options (Vue, React, Angular) and guide future decisions

• Improve performance, reliability and best practices across all digital workstreams

Skills and Experience

You don’t need to be a specialist in everything — the right mindset is valued as much as the exact stack. Ideal candidates will bring:

Essential

• Strong front-end engineering background (Vue, React or Angular)

• Agency experience delivering multiple websites and digital products

• Experience with headless CMS platforms (CraftCMS highly beneficial)

• DevOps and infrastructure confidence: servers, deployments, Nginx, environments

• Ability to evaluate systems, introduce standards and drive improvements

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with non-technical teams

• A proactive, problem-solving mindset and ownership mentality

Nice-to-have

• Experience modernising legacy systems and improving development workflows

• Familiarity with component libraries, design systems and cross-project consistency

• Ability to support backlog planning, technical scoping and best-practice decisions

Why Apply

• High-impact role where you immediately improve stability, speed and delivery quality

• Creative studio environment with modern digital projects

• Freedom to shape the technical direction and future tooling

• Collaborative team of designers, strategists and developers

• Fast interview process and quick hiring decisions

• Budget flexibility for the right person

If you love bringing clarity to messy systems, enjoy both hands-on coding and infrastructure work, and want to be the person who makes everything run better, this is the perfect opportunity.