Contract Front End Engineer

Noble Panacea is a new revolutionary skincare brand founded by Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart and launched in October 2019. The ground-breaking OSMVTM Technology at the core of the brand enables transformational efficacy and precision. We create deep respect & intention by adhering to the global principles of green chemistry. We take our commitment to nature and sustainability to all stages of product development, from R&D to packaging. Ultimately, we strive to promote absolute skin health by empowering all who seek authentic, natural, and ageless beauty. We are seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to take a lead role in shaping the next generation of our global e-commerce experience. You'll be key in our migration to BigCommerce's Catalyst framework and responsible for front-end performance.
You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to create elegant, performant, and maintainable front-end solutions for our luxury skincare brand.
Employment Status: Contract (3 months, with possibility to extend)
Duties and Responsibilities Include:
~ Lead front-end build/migration of pages/components from Stencil to Catalyst (or headless alternative) using the architecture defined by our SI vendor.

~ Implement a high-performance front-end layer: ensure site speed, Lighthouse metrics, core web vitals improvements.

~ Collaborate with the internal and external cross-functional team of Product, Engineering, and QA, to ensure smooth integration with backend, APIs, and Makeswift configuration.

~ Build reusable component libraries, UI patterns and page templates aligned to our design system and brand.

~ Ensure development best practices: code quality, reviews, performance optimisation, accessibility.

~ Work in Agile/Scrum environment; deliver sprints of new pages/features, monitor and fix performance regression.

~ Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to any new internal full-stack engineers to ramp them up on Catalyst/Makeswift environment.

~ Coordinate with QA automation to ensure test coverage for front-end and cross-browser/device performance.

~ Help define monitoring / instrumentation for front-end performance (e.g., real-user metrics, analytics hooks) and support integration with backend performance analytics.

Requirements
~ Strong front-end engineering background (≥ 6-10 yrs) in React, TypeScript, modern CSS/Sass, responsive design and performance optimisation.

~ Proven experience in a headless e-commerce or large CMS/makeswift-type architecture, ideally with migration from monolithic or older front-end frameworks (e.g., Stencil) to headless/use of an API-first approach.

~ Experience with the BigCommerce Catalyst architecture (or headless BigCommerce) or similar (e.g., Contentful, Shopify Hydrogen, Next.js) is a significant plus.

~ Demonstrated record of improving web performance (Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse scores, page-load, TTI, etc).

~ Comfortable collaborating in multi-vendor and large team environments; can pick up existing codebase quickly and lead build with limited ramp-up.

~ Excellent problem-solving, clear communication, ability to mentor others.

~ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, front-end performance tooling (WebPageTest, Lighthouse CI, etc), browser profiling, bundler optimisation.

~ Bonus: experience working in e-commerce (luxury/retail) environment, understanding of BigCommerce ecosystem and Stencil limitations.

Desirable Attributes
~ Self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity (legacy Stencil context, integration issues).

~ Pragmatic trade-off mindset (speed vs. perfection) given urgency.

~ Able to document and articulate decisions, support hand-over to internal team.

~ Experience in international/EMEA deployments helpful as you'll be working globally.