Bjakcareer
Frontend Engineer (Workflow Automation) – Remote (UK)
1w ago
EuropeRemotereactnext.jstypescript
Develop modern frontend applications for workflow automation in the insurance industry with React, Next.js and TypeScript.
Responsibilities
- Build modern frontend applications that make complex workflows simple. You'll create intuitive, scalable and reliable user experiences that help customers and internal teams navigate insurance processes with clarity - from quotations and policy issuance to claims, endorsements and approvals.
- Build modern web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript and modern frontend technologies.
- Develop customer-facing products alongside internal workflow automation platforms.
- Translate product and UX designs into responsive, polished user interfaces.
- Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs, workflow engines and automation services.
- Design intuitive interfaces for complex workflows, including status tracking, approvals, document management and next-step guidance.
- Optimise application performance, scalability and reliability.
- Build reusable components and maintain a scalable frontend architecture.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers and QA throughout the product lifecycle.
- Continuously improve code quality, performance and user experience.
- You'll be successful if you can:
- Deliver intuitive, reliable interfaces for complex operational workflows.
- Simplify multi-step processes through thoughtful frontend design.
- Build scalable frontend architecture that supports AI-powered automation.
- Reduce operational friction by improving visibility into workflow status and next actions.
- Become a trusted engineering partner across product, backend engineering and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Proven experience building production-grade web applications.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Commercial experience with React and modern frontend frameworks such as Next.js.
- Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web development.
- Experience integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Strong understanding of component-based architecture and scalable frontend design.
- Experience optimising frontend performance and debugging production applications.
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines and modern software development practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and experience working within distributed engineering teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
Nice to have
- Experience building workflow automation platforms, enterprise software or internal productivity tools.
- Experience designing complex, state-driven user interfaces.
- Experience with Next.js, Vite or modern frontend tooling.
- Familiarity with Node.js or Python.
- Experience with Redux, Zustand or other state management libraries.
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Jest or Vitest.
- Understanding of authentication, authorisation and web security best practices.
- Experience with event-driven architectures or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
Conditions
- Build AI Products – Work on cutting-edge AI and automation systems that solve real business problems.
- Global Engineering Team – Collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams across multiple countries.
- Fully Remote – Work remotely from UK while collaborating with our Malaysia-based teams.
- International Exposure – Gain experience building products used across Southeast Asia and work with globally distributed teams.
- Learning & Development Budget – Receive support for technical courses, certifications, conferences and continuous learning.
- Career Growth – Fast career progression with opportunities to take ownership of impactful projects.
- Innovative Challenges – Solve large-scale engineering problems in a high-growth technology company.
- Modern Engineering Culture – Code reviews, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
- Competitive Compensation – Attractive salary package based on experience and performance.
How to apply
- We assess culture, working style and frontend execution. The process usually includes application review, two interviews and a technical task or code review.
Other
- BJAK is transforming the insurance industry through AI. We're building intelligent workflow platforms that automate complex insurance operations - from quotations and policy issuance to claims, approvals and customer servicing. We're looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer based in the United Kingdom to help build intuitive, high-performance web applications that power our next-generation workflow automation platform. This is a fully remote role where you'll work alongside product managers, designers and engineers across our global team to create software that simplifies complex operational processes through exceptional user experience.
- Thinks in terms of systems, workflows and user journeys rather than individual screens.
- Enjoys simplifying complex processes into intuitive user experiences.
- Pays close attention to application states, edge cases and failure handling.
- Writes clean, maintainable and scalable code.
- Takes ownership from implementation through production.
- Balances engineering quality with speed of execution.
- Enjoys solving technically challenging product problems with measurable business impact.
- Excited about building AI-powered workflow automation products used at scale.
- Focus only on implementing UI without understanding how the underlying system works.
- Prefer highly detailed specifications over solving product and engineering challenges.
- Overlook edge cases, application states or production reliability.
- Produce code that's difficult to maintain or scale.
- Prefer slow-moving environments over fast-paced product development.