Frontend Developer

About the Role

This role sits within IT Services as part of the AI & Automation (AAA) Programme, which is embedding AI and automation into how Queen Mary University of London operates. The AAA team delivers a portfolio of projects covering user-facing AI agents, integrations across university systems and new microservices that automate and improve day-to-day university processes.  

About You

The Frontend Developer is a software engineer responsible for building and maintaining user interfaces across the AAA Programme to a high standard. The postholder will work across a portfolio of AAA projects with React and Next.js as the primary frameworks, spanning the AI agent UI and other AAA applications. 

This is a hands-on frontend development role. The postholder contributes to the design, build, test and release of user interfaces across the AAA portfolio, taking part in code review and engineering practice as a member of the team. The emphasis is on modern React and Next.js frontend development in TypeScript. AI and automation are the business context of the team; experience building UIs for AI-enabled products is welcome but not the primary requirement for this role. 

The postholder will hold a Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience

About the Department

The Frontend Developer will join a small, high-impact engineering team within IT Services, working alongside other developers on a growing portfolio of AAA services. The postholder will work closely with backend developers across the programme to shape and consume the Go backend contracts that connect frontend and backend. The role reports to the Programme Director for AI Automation, Apps and Strategy.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date: 05/10/2026, 23:55 

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