Contract Developer at GBV Ltd — Manchester, £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.

🛠️ What you'll be doing

• 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

🎯 What we're looking for

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 backend 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.

📌 Contract Details

£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.