Software Engineer

Our Mission

At Sedulo we are building a world class team to deliver our mission to make positive change in the communities we work in. We do this by:

• Working with our clients to transform their business and personal finances
• Connecting and contributing to the business community in the cities we are located in
• Working with charities by volunteering, fundraising and influencing change both now and in the future through the Sedulo Foundation
• Being a great place to work and develop your career

Perygon is Sedulo Accountants' fintech and business-intelligence platform for SMEs and larger organisations, turning people, risk and performance data-like staff happiness and engagement-into clear, actionable insights. It's used by leadership, product and People teams to spot trends, prioritise action and measure outcomes across the business. Backed by Sedulo's nationwide advisory expertise, we're investing heavily in a design-led roadmap, so the experience feels consumer-grade while remaining secure, scalable and ready for white-label client rollouts.

Role Purpose

Own high-impact front-end work: refine core journeys, elevate visual polish, and ship secure, accessible, maintainable experiences. You'll collaborate across product and engineering, bring evidence-based UX opinions, and see them through to delivery.

Role objectives

• Design-quality execution: Turn ideas into elegant, accessible interfaces with "AAA" polish.
• Engineering: Build robust components/pages with Next.js, React, TypeScript, focusing on performance and clean architecture with clean and maintainable code.
• Motion & interactivity: Add thoughtful animation with Framer Motion; explore advanced/3D for future prototypes such as avatars.
• Tooling evolution: Propose modern alternatives (e.g., to SurveyJS/AG Grid) and improve developer experience.
• White-label theming: Strengthen our Chakra UI theming solution for multi-client branding.
• Quality & testing: Maintain high Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and write robust unit/integration/E2E tests with Jest & Cypress.
• Agile collaboration: Work within Agile Scrum (stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives); contribute to technical planning sessions and estimations.
• Stakeholder communication: Partner with designers, engineers, product, and clients/stakeholders; present solutions, run demos, and gather feedback.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Proven commercial experience building modern web UIs.
• Proven delivery with React, Next.js, TypeScript.
• Strong UX instincts-you can explain why, not just how.
• Hands-on motion/interaction (Framer Motion or similar).
• Excellent CSS/responsive/theming skills (Chakra UI a plus).
• Agile Scrum experience, including participation in technical planning/estimation.
• Testing: demonstrable experience building Jest unit/integration suites and Cypress E2E tests.
• Portfolio showcasing beautiful, user-centred, performant work.
• Clear communicator; collaborative, product-thinking mindset.
• Three.js or other advanced animation tools.
• Enterprise SaaS/fintech/BI dashboards experience.
• Rapid mockups/prototyping in Figma/Sketch/XD.

What we offer

• Holidays & Flexibility: 26 days annual leave (including your birthday), plus bank holidays; flexible working hours and remote work for up to 20% of contractual hours; option to work abroad for up to 4 weeks; flexible public holiday policy.
• Pension & Insurance: Company pension scheme; enhanced maternity, adoption, and sick pay; death-in-service (4x salary); income protection (50% salary).
• Health & Wellbeing: Discounted health perks via Medicash and Unum; wellbeing initiatives; private medical insurance (eligibility dependent).
• Lifestyle Perks: free breakfasts, refreshments, free events, and socials; annual Christmas trip abroad; financial and mortgage advice; cycle-to-work and travel ticket loans; electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
• Professional Development & Volunteering: Paid volunteering days (2 per year); ongoing personal and professional development, including access to our online learning platform (Kallidus).