Lead Software Engineer Front End

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (Front End)

Location: Hybrid

Salary: £70,000 per annum

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Eckoh is a market leader of Customer Engagement Security Solutions, supporting an international client base from our offices in the U.S. and the U.K. Eckoh is owned by Bridgepoint one of the world's leading private asset growth investors, with over $75 billion of assets under management.

Our mission is to set the standard for secure interactions between consumers and the world's leading brands. Our innovative products build trust and deliver value through exceptional experiences.

Our large portfolio of clients, which includes many of the Fortune 250, come from a broad range of vertical markets including healthcare, retail, hospitality, financial services, and utilities.

What do we do?

Eckoh's Customer Engagement Security Solutions help our clients to take payments and transact securely with their customers through all engagement channels. The solutions, which are delivered globally through our cloud platforms and protected by multiple patents, remove customer's sensitive personal and payment data from client's contact centres and IT environments. They provide merchants a simple and effective way to reduce the risk of fraud and data breaches, become compliant with security regulations, as well as enhancing their brand and increasing customer satisfaction.

The Role:

We are looking for a highly experienced Lead Front-End Engineer with deep expertise in Vue.js/Nuxt and a strong eye for design and user experience.

As a key member of our development team, you'll drive the architecture, development, and implementation of modern front-end systems while collaborating closely with product, design, and back-end teams.

You'll set the standard for UI quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability, ensuring our front-end stack scales with our growing product suite.

Key Functional Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, responsive, and high-performance front-end applications using Vue.js and Nuxt.js.
• Translate UI/UX designs and product requirements into clean, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with designers to refine design systems, UI components, and interaction patterns.
• Mentor and guide other front-end engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural planning.
• Own and drive front-end architectural decisions, performance optimization, and tooling improvements.
• Stay up-to-date with front-end trends and best practices to keep our stack modern and efficient.
• Partner with QA and back-end teams to ensure smooth, reliable integrations and deployments.
• Contribute to building and maintaining a component library or design system.

About you:

Required skills and qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional front-end development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Vue.js and Nuxt.js, including SSR and static site generation.
• Solid experience working with component-driven development and design systems.
• Demonstrated ability to implement complex UI/UX from Figma, Sketch, or similar tools.
• Advanced knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 (SCSS/Tailwind), JavaScript (ES6+), and related tooling.
• Experience leading technical teams or projects.
• Deep understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and Git.

Desirables:

• Experience with TypeScript
• Familiarity with animation libraries (GSAP, Framer Motion, etc.)
• Experience with headless CMSs (e.g., Storyblok, Contentful, Sanity)
• Exposure to React and its ecosystem
• Contribution to open-source Vue/Nuxt projects
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

Our Benefits:

• 25 days holiday and increases with service
• Excellent Share Incentive Scheme
• Life insurance
• Simply Health scheme
• Access to group Bupa membership scheme.
• Pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Employee Recognition schemes
• Free tea, coffee, fresh fruit and snacks
• Relaxation floor (lunch area, quiet room, pool table, Xbox)
• Well-being initiatives, such as in-house Reflexology and Sports Massage
• Discounted offers
• Team days and Volunteering events
• Christmas & summer company events
• Focused on education and training (conference attendance, higher education sponsorship)

Our Vision:

We care about making the world secure and we believe everyone should be able to trust every brand and engage without risk.

Join Us!

Eckoh is full of friendly, energetic, innovative, and creative individuals, who are proud to be a part of our unique success story.

So, if you want to join a fantastic team, dedicated to delivering a world class service to enterprise level clients, then you should consider working here at Eckoh.

Please click the APPLY button to send your CV & Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; IT Developer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, Senior Developer, C/C++, Programmer, Lead Developer, Front End Developer, Web Application Developer, Technical IT Developer, IT Web Developer, IT Development Engineer, may also be considered for this role.