Senior Front End Engineer – USA Tech Team

Senior Front End Engineer – USA Tech Team

Overall Ambition

Solve some of today's most complex hospitality challenges by building intuitive, high-performing digital experiences using modern frontend technologies. Help shape the technical direction of our customer-facing applications whilst delivering exceptional experiences across the USA.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join our passionate, lean, agile, fast-growing and evolving technology team on a permanent basis.

You'll be an experienced frontend engineer who enjoys solving complex user experience challenges, building scalable web applications and helping those around you become better engineers. You'll be comfortable owning large frontend initiatives from design through to production, influencing technical direction and driving engineering excellence across multiple teams.

You'll remain hands-on whilst acting as a trusted technical leader within the team.

Living the Nando's Values

As a Nandoca, you'll embody the values that make Nando's unique. We're looking for people who demonstrate:

Pride – Take ownership of complex technical challenges, maintain high engineering standards and consistently deliver high-quality software.

Passion – Bring curiosity, enthusiasm and a continuous learning mindset to solving customer problems and improving engineering practices.

Courage – Challenge existing approaches, embrace change and confidently make informed technical decisions.

Integrity – Act with honesty, transparency and accountability in every interaction and technical decision.

Family – Support, mentor and collaborate with teammates, helping create an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.

These values shape how we work together, make decisions and build technology that moves Nando's forward.

The Role

As a Senior Front End Engineer, you'll design, build, deploy and operate modern, high-quality web applications that power the Nando's digital experience across the USA.

You'll partner closely with Technical Leads, Product Managers, UX Designers and fellow engineers to create fast, accessible and engaging customer experiences whilst helping shape the frontend architecture across our digital platform.

You'll be trusted to independently lead complex frontend initiatives, mentor engineers across the team and champion engineering best practice.

You'll also:

• Lead frontend technical discovery and solution design for complex initiatives.
• Build reusable, scalable and accessible component libraries.
• Translate UX designs into responsive, high-quality user interfaces.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, testing strategies and frontend standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Own frontend applications throughout their lifecycle using a "You build it, you run it" mindset.
• Improve performance, accessibility, security and developer experience across our applications.
• Contribute to frontend architecture and engineering strategy alongside Technical Leads and Principal Engineers.
• Champion the effective use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve delivery whilst maintaining engineering quality.

About the USA Tech Team

Our team's objective is to bring the same high-quality digital experience that customers enjoy in the UK and Ireland to customers across the USA.

To achieve this, we build and evolve the services powering our customer journeys across:

• Locate
• Menu
• Payments
• Orders
• Loyalty
• Identity
• Web & Mobile Applications

As a Senior Front End Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and delivering the customer-facing experiences across these domains.

You'll work closely with backend engineers, Product Managers and Designers to build intuitive, responsive and accessible applications that delight customers while remaining scalable, resilient and easy to evolve.

You'll collaborate with other engineering teams across Customer Digital, helping align frontend standards, improve shared libraries and continually enhance our engineering ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Our Senior Front End Engineers are technical leaders who remain close to the code whilst helping the wider engineering organisation succeed.

You'll:

• Design and build modern, scalable and accessible frontend applications.
• Lead technical implementation of complex frontend initiatives from discovery through production.
• Develop reusable UI components and shared design system capabilities.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Technical Leads and backend engineers to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, coaching and constructive code reviews.
• Drive improvements to frontend engineering standards, tooling and development practices.
• Contribute to frontend architecture and technical roadmaps.
• Build comprehensive automated testing and continuously improve test coverage.
• Optimise application performance, responsiveness and Core Web Vitals.
• Own frontend services in production, including monitoring, observability and continuous improvement.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines for frontend applications.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and ongoing service improvements.
• Champion accessibility (WCAG), usability and responsive design best practices.
• Continuously explore emerging technologies, including AI-assisted software development, to improve engineering effectiveness.

Skills Required

Essential

• Significant commercial experience building large-scale frontend applications.
• Expert proficiency with TypeScript, React and modern JavaScript.
• Strong experience with React ecosystem tools such as React Query, Redux Toolkit or equivalent state management solutions.
• Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web design.
• Strong knowledge of frontend architecture, component-based design and scalable application patterns.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Experience building performant, accessible and responsive user interfaces.
• Strong experience with automated frontend testing (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-hosted frontend deployments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
• Strong understanding of Agile software delivery.
• Experience using AI effectively as part of the software development lifecycle.

Highly Desirable

• React Native
• Next.js
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Kubernetes
• Design Systems
• Storybook
• GraphQL
• Micro Frontends
• Performance optimisation and Core Web Vitals
• Accessibility (WCAG)
• Observability platforms and frontend monitoring

Everyone is Welcome

At Nando's, everyone is welcome.

Inspired by our Southern African heritage, we know and value the richness that diversity brings to Nando's.

We're committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all, including our existing and future Nandocas, partners, suppliers, customers and the communities we serve.

We work hard to create an environment where every individual is valued, respected and can flourish regardless of who they are, their background or outlook on life.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of individuals and will consider any reasonable adjustments to enable candidates to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process.