Hybrid Freelance Frontend Developer Vue.js

Remote Contract (UK Candidates Only)

Outside IR35

6-12months

About Elsewhen:

Elsewhen, a London-based end to end consultancy, designs digital products and services for clients like Spotify, Google, Inmarsat, and WPP.

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong Vue.js experience to help shape and deliver a scalable and consistent front-end strategy across multiple products. You’ll collaborate closely with our teams and play a critical role in building modular, reusable components while ensuring a seamless integration process.

Work Environment:

• Remote-first setup: Fully remote work with the option to use a WeWork membership for those who prefer occasional office access.
• Join our team:.

This is an opportunity to work on high-impact projects for a major client, contributing to a shared component library and supporting independent product teams to deliver best-in-class user experiences.

Things you will be doing:

• Translate visual designs into app components with extremely high fidelity. Build and maintain a reusable component library in Vue.js, ensuring components are modular, accessible, and optimised.
• Documentation & Storybook Integration: Maintain clear, user-friendly documentation for components. Implement and deploy Storybook for live component previews, usage examples, and prop definitions
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
• You may configure the front end's continuous integration and code-quality tools. (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Implement design tokens and CSS variables for theming support. Showcase theme-switching capabilities in Storybook to enable white-labelling.
• Collaborate with the backend team to feedback on APIs (OpenAPI) designs to support front-end requirements.
• Work with Product and Design teams to understand requirements, address blockers, and align on best practices. Contribute to frontend tooling setups (linting, testing, versioning) to streamline development workflows.

Your Experience:

• 5+ years experience in front-end development, with a focus on Vue.js (Vue 3) in an Agile development environment and building medium/large-scale web applications
• You have strong fundamentals in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Proven experience building and managing component libraries for enterprise-level projects.
• Familiar with component-based ecosystems (design systems, Storybook, Figma
• You have an in-depth understanding of front-end architecture and performance experience optimisation
• You have excellent communication skills and can demonstrate your ideas, especially to those not technologically proficient
• Experience with publishing NPM and GitHub packages
• Experience with Auth0 integration
• Familiar with the latest trends and toolings
• CSS variables, design tokens AND theming
• Storybook for documentation and interactive previews
• Modern build tools: Vite, or similar
• CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment (Jenkins and GitHub Actions)
• Familiarity with testing tools: Jest, Chromatic/Percy, axe-core (for accessibility)
• End to End testing such as Playwright

Our Commitment to Diversity:

Diverse thoughts, backgrounds, and perspectives create stronger teams and better technology. We welcome everyone, regardless of culture, appearance, or perspective, fostering individuality. We empower our team to challenge norms, grow ideas, and produce their best work.