Staff Frontend Engineer

The role

You will lead technically across frontend engineering by working with cross-functional squads. You will ship features, author API contracts, drive consistency across web properties, and lead AI engineering practices.

What you will do

• Ship features end to end from design handoff to production
• Author and own API contracts and documentation
• Maintain a technical roadmap with written framing
• Drive consistency across all web properties and lead migrations
• Set and maintain security and web performance standards
• Own the build and deployment pipeline
• Develop IC3 engineers into technical leaders
• Lead AI-assisted engineering and set integration standards

Required qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience in focused frontend practice building and operating production web applications at scale
• Track record of leading large, complex projects
• Ability to bridge engineering and product fluently
• Recognised as a technical authority in frontend engineering
• Deep expertise with modern CSS/SCSS, HTML, and current ECMAScript proposals
• Strong understanding of the trade-offs between different frameworks
• Comprehensive experience writing unit and E2E tests and building CI workflows
• Deep working knowledge of TypeScript and modern React
• Experience with frameworks like Next.js that handle SSR, routing, and data fetching
• Deep experience with observability, Core Web Vitals, accessibility auditing, and frontend performance tuning
• Breadth across different teams
• A genuine interest in leading AI-assisted development

Nice to have

• Experience owning and maintaining a design system
• The ability to create sensible UI designs without a Designer
• Experience evaluating vendors and third-party tools
• Experience maintaining and evolving complex legacy systems at scale
• Backend fluency

About the company

Motorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform. It connects private sellers directly with over 8,000 dealers nationwide.