Contract React Developer - Hybrid/Manchester at GBV Ltd, Manchester, 6 Months, £400-£440 per day

Contract Front End Developer - React/TypeScript

Manchester - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)
£440 per day
6-month initial contract
Outside IR35

We're working with a major technology-led organisation looking for an experienced Front End Developer to join a high-performing engineering team.

You'll help develop and enhance a high-traffic product used in a fast-moving, transactional environment, delivering new features while ensuring the customer experience remains fast, responsive, reliable and scalable.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving challenging Front End engineering problems where performance, Real Time data and user experience are critical.

• Building new features across an established, high-traffic web platform
• Developing modern Front End solutions using React and TypeScript
• Maintaining and improving clean, scalable and maintainable code
• Working with Real Time data and high transaction volumes
• Identifying improvements around performance, quality and scalability
• Contributing to technical solution design and assessing engineering trade-offs
• Working closely with Product Owners, Engineering and Testing teams
• Supporting testing throughout delivery
• Providing technical input into solution proposals and delivery decisions
• Producing accurate estimates for planned development work

Strong commercial experience with:

• React
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• HTML5 & CSS
• Building complex, high-traffic user interfaces
• Designing Front End solutions for low-latency, highly available environments
• Working with Real Time data or high-volume transactional systems
• Agile/Scrum software delivery
• CI/CD, continuous build processes and modern developer tooling
• Assessing technical trade-offs and contributing to solution design

Experience or understanding of Back End technologies such as Golang, C#, .NET, Java, C++ or C would be advantageous.

We're also looking for someone with a good understanding of AI-assisted software development and how AI tooling can improve engineering productivity and delivery.

£440 per day | Outside IR35 | 6 months initially | Manchester | 2 days per week onsite

This would suit an experienced React/TypeScript Engineer who enjoys working on complex, customer-facing products where milliseconds matter and can contribute quickly within an established engineering environment.

Interested? Apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation.