Front-End Engineer - Bristol

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Front-End Engineer to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Bristol.

Our client is seeking a Front-End Engineer with at least 5 years’ experience join one of their cross-functional feature teams. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) division, within the Client Servicing & Engagement (CSE) platform. They build and deliver digital products that enable their clients to grow their businesses—businesses that support millions of people across the UK every day. This is your chance to be part of meaningful change with real-world impact.

You’ll work across the full stack, with a primary focus on building high-quality, scalable front-end solutions as we continue their migration to cloud technologies.  You will work closely with solution architects, designers, product owners, engineers, and DevOps teams to create innovative digital experiences used daily by commercial customers on web, mobile, and tablet platforms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects and designers to define front-end solutions
• Build efficient, scalable, and reusable front-end components
• Drive engineering best practices across performance, accessibility, and quality
• Work across disciplines to refine features and deliver new functionality
• Participate in design and process reviews to help grow engineering capability
• Write well-structured, maintainable, and tested code that meets business needs
• Leverage existing frameworks, tools, and shared practices across the organisation
• Champion DevOps principles and CI/CD practices to enable faster delivery cycles
• Contribute to architectural discussions and innovation across the platform

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ proven experience in front-end development, specifically using JavaScript and React
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrating with back-end services
• Knowledge of Node.js and AngularJS
• Familiarity with micro-frontends and microservice architecture
• Strong understanding of source control (e.g., Git) and agile delivery practices
• Hands-on experience with Docker or containerisation technologies
• Experience building and deploying via CI/CD pipelines
• Testing expertise with tools such as Jest, Testing Library, Cypress, or Cucumber
• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Maven, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of release automation and build tools (e.g., Azure Pipelines, GCP, Nexus)
• Ability to work across the full software development lifecycle, from design to deployment
• Great communication and collaboration skills across teams
• Experience with tooling such as npm, Webpack, etc.

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.