Senior Digital Engineer

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries.
We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support.

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

Job Title: Senior Digital Engineer (Frontend)

About the role

We're looking for a Front End Engineering Lead based in India, working a hybrid model with time in one of our offices a few days each week alongside the flexibility to work remotely. This is a technical lead role at its core, with the opportunity to lead with purpose and build high-quality digital experiences that enable better decision-making at scale.

There's potential to grow into people leadership over time, though that isn't a requirement from day one. You'll work closely with UX designers and product leads as part of a centre of expertise, with exposure to a wide variety of Mott MacDonald's digital initiatives and projects across the business.

You'll collaborate within a diverse, high-performing global team responsible for developing and maintaining front-end applications and shared UI components. Your work will enable teams across our business to deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality applications, supporting infrastructure, communities, and clients worldwide.

You'll balance hands-on technical delivery with strategic thinking, helping to shape how we build, scale, and evolve our front-end capability while fostering a culture of learning.

What you'll do

• Partner closely with product owners, stakeholders, and regional technical leads to ensure consistency, quality, and excellence across applications.
• Oversee the planning, design, development, and ongoing improvement of front-end applications, shared UI components, and developer tooling
• Contribute to front end architecture.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of design systems, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability across applications.
• Support the technical growth of developers around you, promoting best-practice engineering standards.
• Lead estimation and risk assessment, contribute to architectural decisions, and dive into complex development challenges when needed.
• Help evolve our ways of working, tooling, and standards to support reliable and maintainable solutions.
• Help set standards for responsible and effective use of AI-assisted tooling within the team.
• Engage with colleagues across different regions and time zones, bringing together diverse perspectives to shape cohesive, high-quality front-end experiences.
• Clearly communicate technical decisions and recommendations to peers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.

What you'll bring to this role

• 8+ years of strong commercial front-end development experience, with a genuine passion for technology, people, and quality.
• Proven experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, React and Redux, testing frameworks, SCSS, and RESTful APIs.
• A solid grasp of UX/UI principles, accessibility, and modern web standards.
• A pragmatic and proactive approach, looking for ways to strengthen front-end capability while balancing the need to get the job done.
• Curiosity, openness to feedback, and a commitment to engineering practices that deliver meaningful outcomes.
• You communicate clearly, adapting your style to different audiences and building strong relationships across teams.
• You're structured and reliable in the way you work, and able to manage priorities.
• Ideally, you have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Minimum requirements

• 8+ years' strong hands-on experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Redux
• .Experience with testing frameworks, SCSS, and RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of UX/UI principles, accessibility, and modern web standards.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating in multidisciplinary, cross-regional teams.
• Deep understanding of HTTP request/response lifecycle, including methods, status codes, and header usage.
• Strong grasp of caching strategy across layers.
• Ability to set standards for the security posture at the HTTP layer.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving performance issues rooted in the network layer.
• Ability to shape API contracts collaboratively with backend and platform teams and to hold that line across projects.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience in security management and performance optimisation.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cloud technologies.
• Experience creating and managing NPM packages.
• Experience contributing to front-end architecture and design (e.g. micro-frontends, design patterns, scalability, automation).
• Experience with GIS technologies, such as Esri or ArcGIS libraries.

This role will give you the opportunity to

• Contribute front-end capability on applications used to support major infrastructure and public-sector programmes.
• Influence the direction of front-end practice and standards used across our business worldwide.
• Grow your technical expertise through access to professional development and technical communities.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing