Front End Web Developer

The Firm:

Vardags is a world-renowned law firm for high-net-worth individuals, founded by "Britain's top divorce lawyer", Ayesha Vardag. We use bespoke strategic solutions to make the law work for our clients in substantial and complex legal cases. We typically act for UHNW individuals on high-profile and law-changing cases.

Vardags' team come from stellar and diverse backgrounds. The common threads are intellectual rigor coupled with a relentless drive to achieve real results. Our commercial team features leaders with a background in consulting (McKinsey, Monitor, OC&C).

The Role: Front End Web Developer

Position Overview

We're seeking a pragmatic, execution-focused front end developer who thrives on shipping products that people actually use. This role is for someone who values substance over style, completion over perfection, and impact over recognition.

Technical Requirements

Core Front End Skills

• Vanilla Web Technologies: Extensive experience with HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript not required)
• API Integration: Proven ability to integrate frontend applications with RESTful API endpoints
• Testing Expertise: Strong experience writing and maintaining unit, subsystem, and system tests for frontend applications
• LLM Integration: Extensive hands-on experience using Claude and other LLM models for code generation, debugging, and code review processes

Development Approach

• Rapid Iteration: Demonstrated ability to maintain extremely fast project/feature shipping cadence
• Show, Don't Tell: Strong adherence to "iterate by showing" methodology rather than endless planning discussions
• Design Instincts: Solid intuition for web page layouts, interaction design, and user journey mapping (tools agnostic - Figma, PowerPoint, whiteboard sketches all welcome)

Preferred Additional Skills

• Mobile Development: Experience building iOS/Android applications, particularly with Flutter
• Browser Extensions: Ability to develop Edge/Chrome extensions
• Microsoft Ecosystem: Experience building C# applications for Microsoft native applications (Outlook, etc.) that leverage Microsoft Graph API

Professional Qualities

Communication & Leadership

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to engage effectively with non-technical stakeholders
• Capable of driving entire frontend projects from initial concept through mature, operationalized usage
• Strong system architecture instincts with ability to quickly converge on project requirements

Mindset & Approach

• Battle-Hardened: Experienced with failure, learning, and perseverance through multiple project cycles
• Completion-Focused: Understanding that project success is measured by user adoption, not feature completion
• Anti-Shiny Object: Ability to resist temptation of new technologies when focus should be on grinding through current priorities
• Stakeholder Engagement: Strong skills in scoping functional and technical implementation, prioritization, and planning

Personal Characteristics

• Personable & Collaborative: Solid people skills, approachable, no ego or academic elitism
• Mission-Oriented: Psychological detachment from personal preferences - willing to upskill, pivot, or abandon work as business needs require
• Agency Embodied: Self-motivated, proactive, with internalized drive to map goals to actions
• Pragmatic Executor: "Ice cold killer" mentality focused on results rather than recognition or personal technical preferences

Work Environment

You'll be working with 1-2 technical colleagues and hundreds of non-technical team members. Success in this role requires someone who can bridge technical and business domains while maintaining focus on practical outcomes over technical perfectionism.

What We Value

• Shipped products that people use
• Speed of execution over architectural purity
• Business impact over technical achievement
• Collaborative problem-solving over individual heroics
• Practical solutions over elegant code

This role is ideal for a developer who has learned that the best code is code that solves real problems for real users, and who finds satisfaction in seeing their work drive actual business outcomes.

Salary: Competitive.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London EC4M 7NG