Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Whitbreadrestaurants; London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000

Job description

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Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and some of the UK’s favourite restaurants, processes nearly £2 billion in transactions each year and employs around 40,000 people. As the new Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of our Premier Inn digital team to solve real-world problems at scale, building REST APIs using a Microservices architecture. You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.

Role: Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Package: £85,000 + 30% company performance bonus, plus car or car cash allowance of £5,651.00 pa

Contract Type: Full-Time and Permanent

Location: Holborn, London and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Healthcare: Individual & Family BUPA healthcare
• Bonus: Up to 30% of annual salary
• 10% matched pension
• Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand

Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/

What You’ll Be Doing:

As the Senior Software Engineer – Frontend, you will lead on the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance platforms, products, and services, to ensure systems are reliable, high performing, and continuously improved to meet evolving business needs. You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments.

What You’ll Need:

• Expert in JavaScript/Typescript, Next JS, React or Angular. Writes clean, efficient, maintainable code, AB testing and Versioning. Drive continuous improvements. Understanding of DevOps tools, CICD pipelines and cloud tech stacks (like K8s). Understanding of third party integrations.
• Responsive design: strong UI/UX knowledge, implements designs, ensures accessibility. Proficient in CSS, with good experience in CSS libraries like Tailwind etc. Good expertise in Unit testing and automation testing libraries.
• Performance optimisation and debugging: skilled in debugging, profiling, and optimising frontend performance, reducing re-renders, lazy loading, caching strategy, fixing memory leaks, state management etc. Ability to mentor and coach.

Be part of our Technology Team at Whitbread:

Through collaboration, passion and hiring the smartest minds, our Technology team builds products and services that are used by 38,000 of us at Whitbread and millions of guests. Together we’re building the hotel of the future.

We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcomes your application whatever your background or situation.

Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. Speak to us about workplace adjustments, part-time and flexible working. Where possible we will support this.

Job ref: 58386-4492

Advertised: 31 Mar 2025

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Hospitality