Senior Frontend Developer

UI Developer (React) – Contract (Outside IR35)

£400/day

3-month initial

Hybrid (West Midlands)

North Scout are recruiting a UI Developer for a large UK insurance organisation, working on a major internal digital platform used across multiple business units. This is a UI-led Front-End role focused on building robust, scalable user interfaces for complex, high-volume systems. It’s not a greenfield toy app – it’s proper enterprise engineering.

You’ll be joining a small, senior product team and will have real ownership over front-end standards, component design, and UI quality across the platform.

The Role

This is a hands-on UI Developer position, working in a close-knit delivery team, while collaborating with multiple engineering, data, and product teams across the organisation. You’ll be responsible for building reusable UI components, improving front-end architecture, and ensuring the platform remains maintainable as it scales. This suits someone who’s comfortable working in large systems with lots of moving parts.

Core Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with React (senior level)
• Solid experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript
• Proven experience building reusable component libraries
• Experience integrating with APIs and working in structured enterprise environments
• Azure experience, ideally Azure DevOps, Repos & Feeds
• Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across tech and business

Nice to have

• Background working on large enterprise platforms
• Experience in regulated environments (insurance, finance, banking)
• Exposure to complex internal systems and legacy integration

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing UI for a major insurance platform used across the business
• Creating and maintaining reusable UI components
• Improving front-end structure and technical standards
• Collaborating with back-end engineers, architects, and product teams

Contract Details

• £400/day – Outside IR35
• 3-month initial contract (likely to extend)