Senior Angular Frontend Engineer

Our Vision

To be a global market leader in Workplace Management Technology, recognised as benefiting the health, wellbeing, and productivity of building and office users.

About Spica

Spica is a fast-growing specialist Digital Solution Provider, combining IoT technology, systems integration, and desktop and mobile user experiences to help businesses capitalise on the opportunities presented by emerging workplace technologies.

We are a Property Technology (PropTech) business, exploiting innovative technologies to create exceptional workplace experiences. Our GemEx platform combines Digital Twin capabilities, workplace analytics, IoT sensing technologies, and integrations with key business systems to improve how people interact with buildings and workplaces.

Our Values

• Relentless Innovation – Everyone is encouraged to think in new ways so we are always moving forward.
• In It Together – Our job descriptions are not boundaries of limitation but a springboard for opportunities.
• People Not Number – We pride ourselves on nurturing long-term partnerships, and our team is at the heart of everything we do.
• High Performing Culture – Everyone is a leader, striving for self-actualisation at work.
• Work Balance – Working hard is only sustainable when balanced with family, friends, and relaxation.

Your Part in It

You will join a multidisciplinary product engineering team responsible for developing advanced Workplace Experience solutions, including our Digital Twin platform, IoT integrations, workplace analytics, mobile applications, and customer-facing web experiences.

Working closely with backend engineers, mobile developers, product managers, UX designers, and solution architects, you will design and deliver intuitive, responsive, and accessible web experiences.

You will help shape frontend architecture, user experience standards, and engineering practices across our product suite.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain modern web applications using Angular and TypeScript.
• Translate product requirements and user journeys into intuitive user experiences.
• Build reusable UI components and shared frontend libraries.
• Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs and event-driven services.
• Optimise application performance, accessibility, responsiveness, and usability.
• Collaborate with UX designers, backend engineers, and product teams.
• Contribute to frontend architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Write automated tests and maintain high code quality.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and production deployments.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Work closely with colleagues to continuously improve performance, quality, reusability, and engineering processes across products and projects.
• Participate actively within the software engineering community, contributing to knowledge sharing and technical excellence.

Operational Support & Release Responsibilities

Our platforms support enterprise customers across multiple regions and time zones. As part of the engineering team, you will contribute to maintaining the reliability, availability, and continuous improvement of our production environments.

This role includes participation in an out-of-hours support and release rota.

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting scheduled software releases outside normal business hours, including occasional evenings and weekends.
• Participating in a shared on-call support rota to investigate and resolve production incidents.
• Assisting with issue triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborating with engineering, support, and operations teams to minimise customer impact during incidents.
• Contributing to improvements in platform reliability, observability, deployment automation, and operational processes.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and operational documentation.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience developing applications using Angular and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive design principles.
• Experience with RxJS and modern Angular state management approaches, including NgRx or Signals.
• Experience consuming and integrating REST APIs.
• Experience building reusable component libraries and design systems.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.
• Understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Experience using Git and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to learn quickly, take initiative, and work independently.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Exposure to Java and Spring Boot.
• Understanding of SQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Apache Ignite or distributed caching technologies.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or event-driven architectures.
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience building Progressive Web Applications.
• Experience with data visualisation libraries.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience developing mobile-first or kiosk applications.
• Experience working on SaaS or cloud-native products.

How We Build Software

• Agile product squads with two-week sprint cycles.
• Peer-reviewed pull requests.
• Automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Infrastructure as code.
• Cloud-native architecture on AWS.
• Observability-first mindset.
• Continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

What Success Looks Like in Your First 12 Months

• Develop a strong understanding of the GemEx platform and workplace technology domain.
• Deliver production-ready features within sprint cycles.
• Contribute to improving engineering standards, automation, and user experience.
• Build trusted relationships across product, engineering, and customer teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve usability, quality, performance, and accessibility.

Experience & Qualifications

• Degree educated in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Design Engineering, Mathematics, or another relevant discipline.
• Minimum of four years' experience in frontend software engineering.
• Experience supporting production systems in a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
• Willingness to participate in an out-of-hours support and release rota.

What You Can Expect in Return

• A great opportunity to experience what it takes to scale a thriving SaaS software product business.
• A friendly, encouraging, and motivating environment with a team that works hard but knows how to have fun.
• The opportunity to be part of Birmingham's thriving innovation ecosystem at Innovation Birmingham Science Park.

Reward & Recognition

• Salary band: £60,000 to £85,000 dependent on experience.
• Pension in line with auto-enrolment requirements.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Hybrid office working.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with an additional day off for your birthday.
• Regular reviews and progression planning.
• Training opportunities in new and emerging technologies.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We wholeheartedly support the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion in employment and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership.