Frontend Engineer - React / Next.js (Contract) at hedgehog lab, Edinburgh, £Contract Rate

Accessibility isn't a checkbox on this one, it's the point. We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to build customer-facing interfaces for a large regulated UK organisation, where the people using them include those who depend on the service working properly. React, Next and TypeScript, built to a genuinely high bar.

What you'll do:

• Build accessible, high-quality interfaces in React, Next.js and TypeScript.

• Ship through Vercel and manage content with Contentful.

• Work closely with design to get the details right.

• Hold a high bar for accessibility across everything you build.

What we're looking for:

• Strong React, Next.js and TypeScript.

• Experience with Vercel and a headless CMS, Contentful ideally.

• A real understanding of web accessibility and WCAG.

• Care for performance and usability, not just shipping features.

• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.

Bonus points for experience building for users with a wide range of access needs.

About hedgehog lab:

We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.

We're a certified B Corp.

We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.

The details:

• Contract, outside IR35.

• 3 to 6 months, with potential to extend.

• Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.

Apply below and I'll be in touch.