Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
31-03-2025
Job Specifications
Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and some of the UK’s favourite restaurants, processes nearly £2 billion in transactions each year and employs around 40,000 people.
As the new Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of our Premier Inn digital team to solve real-world problems at scale, building REST API’s using a Microservices architecture. You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.
Role: Senior Software Engineer - Frontend
Package: £85,000 + 30% company performance bonus, plus car or car cash allowance of £5,651.00pa
Contract Type: Full-Time and Permanent
Location: Holborn, London and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.
Why You’ll Love It Here
Healthcare: Individual & Family BUPA healthcare
10% matched pension
Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand
Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/
What you’ll be doing:
As the Senior Software Engineer – Frontend, you will lead on the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance platforms, products, and services, to ensure systems are reliable, high performing, and continuously improved to meet evolving business needs.
You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.
What you’ll need:
Expert in JavaScript/Typescript, Next JS, React or Angular. Writes clean, efficient, maintainable code, AB testing and Versioning. Drive continuous improvements. Understanding of Devops tools, CICD pipelines and cloud tech stacks (like K8s). Understand on third party integrations.
Responsive design: strong UI/UX knowledge, implements designs, ensures accessibility. Proficient in CSS, Have good experience in CSS libraries like Tailwind etc. Good expertise in Unit testing and automation testing libraries.
Performance optimisation and debugging skilled in debugging, profiling, and optimising frontend performance reducing re-renders, lazy loading, Caching strategy, fix memory leak, state managements etc.) Ability to mentor and coach.
Be part of our Technology Team at Whitbread
Through collaboration, passion and hiring the smartest minds, our Technology team builds products and services that are used by 38,000 of us at Whitbread and millions of guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £2 billion in transactions per year, applications that are scalable across our 1,200 hotel and restaurants, devices that enable our teams and guests to have a seamless experience, all whilst keeping data secure. Together we’re building the hotel of the future.
About the Company
Whitbread PLC is the owner of the UK’s favourite hotel chain, Premier Inn, as well as restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Bar + Block and Cookhouse and Pub. Whitbread employs more than 35,000 people in more than 1,200 Premier Inn hotels and restaurants across the UK and Germany, serving over five million customers every month. At Whitbread we are committed to being a force for good in the communities in which we operate. Our Sustainability programme, ‘Force for Good’ is focused on enabling people to ... Know more
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