Overview

React Engineer - Belfast (Hybrid 2 days a week) - up to £60,000 + Bonus

This is an exciting opportunity to join a major insurance platform at a pivotal stage in their digital transformation journey. The business is modernising its core systems and customer-facing applications, creating an environment where engineers can directly influence how products are designed and delivered. You'll work within a collaborative engineering team, building performant, scalable, and intuitive React applications that will transform the way users interact with insurance services. With strong investment in technology and people, this is a genuinely exciting time to come on board.

The Role

• Develop and maintain modern React applications as part of a wider digital transformation programme

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver user-centric solutions

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with a focus on performance and scalability

• Contribute to design decisions and influence best practices across the frontend team

• Support the adoption of modern engineering principles and CI/CD practices

• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and agile ceremonies

Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of commercial experience with React.js and JavaScript/TypeScript

• Strong understanding of modern frontend tooling (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Jest, etc.)

• Experience consuming RESTful APIs and working with backend teams

• Solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design principles

• Familiarity with state management libraries (Redux, Context API, Zustand, etc.)

• Awareness of accessibility and cross-browser compatibility best practices

• Bonus: experience with cloud-hosted platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or design systems

What’s on Offer

• Base salary up to £60,000 + bonus

• Hybrid working - 2 days a week in Belfast office

• Opportunity to work on large-scale digital transformation projects

• Modern tech stack and collaborative engineering culture

Apply here or reach out to Aaron Somers at Ocho for more information via LinkedIn.