Senior React Engineer - Contract at The Digital Recruitment Company, City Of London, £Contract Rate

Senior React Engineer (Contract)

Location: London (hybrid)

Day rate: £500–£650 (outside IR35)

Start: ASAP

Duration: 6 months (likely extension)

We’re working with a well-funded, product-led business undergoing a significant evolution of its frontend platform.

This is not a greenfield “build a landing page” role.

This is a core product engineering position, focused on building scalable, high-performance user experiences used daily by customers.

You will be joining a team that values clean architecture, strong engineering standards, and pragmatic delivery.

• Building and scaling complex web applications using React and Next.js
  

• Contributing to a modern frontend architecture (component-driven, modular, scalable)
  

• Working closely with product, design and backend teams to deliver end-to-end features
  

• Improving performance, reliability and maintainability across the frontend codebase
  

• Writing clean, testable code and contributing to engineering standards across the team
  

• Taking ownership of features from design through to production
  

What we’re looking for

This role is for hands-on engineers.

You will likely have:

• Strong experience with React and TypeScript in production environments
  

• Experience building complex, user-facing applications (not just marketing sites)
  

• Exposure to Next.js or similar modern frameworks
  

• Experience working within component-based architectures or design systems
  

• Solid understanding of API integration (REST or GraphQL)
  

• Experience working in agile, product-led teams
  

• A track record of delivering features in fast-moving environments
  

Strong bonus

• Experience with micro-frontends or large-scale frontend platforms
  

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
  

• Experience in financial services, SaaS, or high-traffic platforms
  

• Comfortable picking up light backend work where needed
  
  What we’re not looking for
  

To save everyone time, this role is not suited to:

• Backend-leaning engineers who “also do React”
  

• Purely agency or marketing website backgrounds
  

• Engineers without recent hands-on React experience
  

• Candidates who are not comfortable owning delivery
  

• High-impact work on a core product
  

• Strong engineering environment with modern tooling and practices
  

• Opportunity to shape how the frontend is built going forward
  

• Long-term potential beyond the initial contract