Senior Engineer (Frontend-First)
11 hours ago
Glasgow
Senior Engineer (Frontend-First) Location: Remote (UK-based) Occasional meetings: South West (Bath/Bristol) & London Type: Full-time Salary: Circa £60,000 DOE + Company Options + Meal Discounts About Field Doctor Field Doctor creates award-winning, chef-made and dietitian-designed meals tailored to specific health needs, including Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer, IBS and general wellbeing. Since launching nationally in 2021, we’ve: • Delivered over 1 million meals, • Reached £5m+ ARR with strong institutional backing, • Supported thousands of customers on their health journeys, • Built a modern, headless D2C digital product We operate a subscription-first model with strong customer loyalty and a mission that genuinely improves lives. We favour pragmatic technology choices, off-the-shelf platforms, and increasingly leverage AI and low/no-code to move faster. About the Role This is a hands-on, frontend-first senior engineering role, reporting directly to the Director of Technology. This is a high-autonomy role in a small team, suited to engineers who are comfortable managing their own priorities and momentum. You’ll play a key role in scaling our Shopify Hydrogen headless storefront, improving performance, shipping features quickly, and supporting the launch of our mobile app. It’s an excellent opportunity for a strong engineer stepping into their first senior role, with real ownership and autonomy. You’ll work closely with design, operations and growth to build a faster, more reliable, and more scalable customer experience. What You’ll Do • Build and ship customer-facing features using React, TypeScript and Shopify Hydrogen, • Implement high-quality, accessible, responsive UI from design, • Maintain and evolve our component library and design system, • Support mobile parity within our WebView app (launching 2026), • Leverage low-code / no-code tools where appropriate, • Embrace modern LLM and AI tooling as part of day-to-day delivery, • Improve code quality, structure, documentation and testing, • Support experimentation, analytics, A/B testing and performance optimisation, • Diagnose and resolve issues across browsers, devices and edge cases About You • Strong experience with React and modern TypeScript/JavaScript, • Able to deliver polished, production-ready UI, • Comfortable improving performance and debugging complex issues, • Pragmatic, curious, and ready to take on more ownership, • Good design instinct and attention to detail, • Clear communicator and collaborative team member, • Comfortable working with analytics and experimentation You’ll Thrive Here If… • You’re the kind of engineer who sees an ambiguous problem and feels energised, not blocked, by the need to define the solution yourself, • You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment, • You like taking end-to-end ownership of problems, not just writing code handed to you, • You’re pragmatic and outcome-focused, favouring progress over perfection, • You’re curious about using AI, low-code, and modern tooling to move faster, • You care about building products that have real-world impact on people’s health What We Offer • Circa £60,000 salary, • Company options scheme, • Remote-first working within the UK, • Direct collaboration with senior leadership, • A small, mission-driven team, • Discounts on our meals, • The chance to shape a health-focused digital product with real impact