Frontend Developer (React)

Unico Connect is seeking a Frontend Developer (React) to build production user interfaces for client web products. The role spans component implementation, accessibility, performance, and the partnership with designers and backend engineers that ensures pixel-perfect production output. The position is well suited to early-career frontend engineers with strong React and TypeScript fundamentals and a good visual eye.

Responsibilities

• Build production React and Next.js apps with TypeScript
• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, responsive, accessible components
• Implement state management with TanStack Query, Zustand, or Redux Toolkit
• Write unit tests (Vitest or Testing Library) and end-to-end tests (Playwright)
• Optimise Core Web Vitals, bundle size, and SEO
• Collaborate closely with designers and backend engineers during feature development
• Pair with senior frontend engineers on architecture decisions and code reviews
• Participate in incident response for owned frontends
• Maintain technical documentation for owned components and patterns
• Contribute to shared design system components and internal libraries

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 1-3 years of React with TypeScript in production
• Working knowledge of Next.js (App Router or Pages Router)
• Comfort with CSS, Tailwind, and CSS-in-JS
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD
• Good visual eye; capacity to match designer specs precisely
• Solid understanding of accessibility basics and responsive design
• Working knowledge of state management patterns
• Excellent written communication for pull requests and design conversations
• Capacity to read backend code well enough to scope frontend-backend integrations