Senior Developer - UIO

Licensed sponsor Leicester Full-time Posted 5 hours ago

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Developer to join our eCommerce Technical team, based from the NEXT Head Office in Leicestershire!

The Role

Are you an experienced front-end specialist passionate about creating seamless, high-converting digital experiences?

Our eCommerce Tech team is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to help evolve an enterprise digital platform serving over 8 million customers globally. Supported by central tech teams, we build and manage the NEXT and Total Platform websites and mobile applications - all developed in-house.

Joining our User Interface Optimisation Team, you will take a lead role in delivering high-impact functionality driven by Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO), rigorous A/B testing, and deep customer journey analysis.

In this position, you will work within an agile, collaborative team alongside talented developers to refine and build upon a quality-centric eCommerce platform. You will bridge technical execution and commercial strategy, using data-driven experimentation to shape customer-facing features that directly influence multi-million-pound product investment decisions.

What You’ll Take On

Experimental Feature Architecture: Maintain, architect, and deploy high-performing client-side experimental features within the Bloomreach Digital Experience Platform (DXP). You will build rapid, time-limited tests designed to achieve statistical significance and drive key business insights.
Technical Execution & Overrides: Intercept, override, and inject custom features using HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript. You will establish best practices for performance, ensuring injection scripts run smoothly without causing layout shifts, impacting Core Web Vitals, or creating technical debt for base platforms.
Technical Leadership & Quality: Drive code quality, readability, and modularity across the team. You will lead code reviews, champion performance standards, and ensure web accessibility standards (WCAG) are met across all responsive viewports.
Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluate and modernise workflows and practices to maximize developer productivity, efficiency, and feature velocity.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Translate complex technical concepts clearly for non-technical commercial and product stakeholders. Mentor and guide mid-level and junior developers, and contribute to out-of-hours support during peak trading events (e.g., Black Friday and seasonal sales).

What You’ll Bring

Core Techology Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience with modern JavaScript, semantic HTML5, and advanced CSS/SASS architecture.
Framework Experience: Practical expertise with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
Experimentation & CRO: A solid understanding of client-side A/B testing, DOM manipulation/injection, and conversion rate optimisation principles.
Performance & Accessibility: Proven success in optimizing Core Web Vitals, UI performance profiling, and WCAG accessibility standards.
Analytics & Insight: Practical experience with web analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics 4) paired with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess experiment results.
Leadership & Communication: A track record of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, leading technical discussions, and presenting clearly to commercial partners.
Collaborative Delivery: Experience working effectively within a large-scale, fast-paced, multifunctional technical environment across responsive, multi-viewport platforms.
Bonus experience: Familiarity with Azure DevOps, service-oriented architecture, or enterprise DXPs like Bloomreach. Discover how you can shape the future of our eCommerce platforms and build a career with space to grow - apply now.

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

About The Team

25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
Company performance based bonus
Sharesave scheme
On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
Early VIP access to sale stock
Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
Free on-site parking
Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.