Mott Macdonald
A global engineering, management, and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions.
Senior Front-End Developer
Lead front‑end development, mentor team, and build UI frameworks for the Moata Platform.
Job Highlights
About the Role
As a senior front‑end developer you will lead, mentor and collaborate within a diverse, high‑performing global team responsible for shared UI frameworks and packages across the Moata Platform. Your work will ensure teams across the business deliver consistent, accessible and high‑quality applications that support infrastructure, communities and clients worldwide. You will balance hands‑on technical leadership with strategic thinking to evolve our front‑end capability while fostering a culture of learning, trust and inclusion. • Partner with product owners, stakeholders and regional technical leads to ensure consistency, quality and excellence across platform applications. • Oversee planning, design, development and ongoing improvement of front‑end applications, shared UI components and developer tooling. • Mentor and support developers, fostering technical growth and promoting best‑practice engineering standards. • Lead estimation, risk assessment and contribute to architectural decisions while tackling complex development challenges. • Champion continuous improvement of ways of working, tooling and standards to deliver reliable, secure and maintainable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸front‑end
- ▸ui components
- ▸dev tooling
- ▸mentorship
- ▸architecture
- ▸process improvement
What You Bring
We seek someone with strong commercial experience and a genuine passion for technology, people and quality. You should be proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Redux, testing frameworks, SCSS, RESTful APIs and have a solid grounding in UX/UI principles, accessibility and modern web standards. Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, security, performance optimisation, cloud technologies, NPM packages, agile delivery and front‑end architecture is highly regarded, as is demonstrated leadership or mentoring ability. Joining Mott MacDonald means contributing to digital solutions that support infrastructure resilience and positive societal outcomes worldwide. With employee ownership at our core, your development matters and you’ll be supported to grow both technical expertise and leadership capability. Our inclusive culture celebrates diversity, values different perspectives and prioritises wellbeing, balance and flexibility. Based in Auckland you will collaborate with talented colleagues around the globe.
Requirements
- ▸javascript
- ▸react
- ▸ci/cd
- ▸ux/ui
- ▸leadership
- ▸commercial
Benefits
This role offers a unique opportunity to leave a lasting impact on our platform, our people and the communities we serve. If you are excited about building meaningful technology, supporting others to thrive and shaping the future of digital infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you. Our employee‑ownership model means no external investors and gives every staff member a stake and a voice in the business, with performance bonuses and direct channels to senior leadership. The benefits package includes a flexible work atmosphere, competitive salary with discretionary bonuses, comprehensive insurance coverage, the option to purchase extra annual leave and access to employee resource groups. • Flexible and agile work atmosphere that accommodates professional journeys and life events. • Competitive salary complemented by discretionary group and personal performance bonuses. • Comprehensive coverage including life, personal accident and salary continuance insurance. • Option to purchase extra annual leave to enhance work‑life balance. • Access to employee resource groups such as the Inclusive Network for Women and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives.
Work Environment
Hybrid