3 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Leeds, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and delivery of client-facing and internal portals, including standards for quality, performance, responsiveness, accessibility, security, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Own front-end standards, styling governance, component consistency, and UX alignment with Waystone’s corporate brand.
- Manage and modernize the existing portal estate, including heritage applications, and lead rationalization toward unified single-portal architectures.
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership to the in-house web development team through standards, code reviews, mentoring, and capability development.
- Direct and assure the quality of work delivered by external partners and augmented teams.
- Define and evolve web engineering standards, tooling, code review practices, version control, automated testing, and CI/CD processes.
- Ensure web delivery meets information security, regulatory, and control standards.
- Evaluate new technologies and embed AI-first and automation-first practices, including the use of Lovable for validated prototypes.
- Collaborate with architecture, engineering, assurance, design, delivery, product, marketing, and brand stakeholders.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on expertise in modern web and front-end engineering using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
- Experience leading web or front-end teams, setting technical standards, and raising engineering quality.
- Demonstrable experience consolidating or rationalizing portal or web application estates and modernizing heritage applications.
- Experience delivering professional client-facing and internal portals.
- Experience working with delivery partners or augmented teams and holding them to in-house quality standards.
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards such as WCAG and responsive interface development across devices and browsers.
- Experience with version control, CI/CD, automated testing, disciplined code review, and AI prototyping or vibe-coding tools such as Lovable.
- Familiarity with Expo or cross-platform React applications is advantageous.
- Ability to translate business and user needs into technical solutions and operate effectively in regulated or control-heavy environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
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About Waystone
Waystone provides governance, administration, risk, compliance, and management company (ManCo) services to asset managers and institutional investors, including fund structuring under AIFMD and UCITS. Its business model centers on regulated ManCo platforms, corporate administration, and outsourced compliance, complemented by client portals for reporting and oversight. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Ballsbridge, Dublin, Waystone is privately held and backed by Montagu.