Lead Front-End Engineer, Eventogy

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CSS

HTML

JavaScript

Next.js

Git

Senior and Expert level

London

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3+ days a week in office (Farringdon, London )

Cloud based event management software

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Cloud based event management software

1-20 employees

HospitalityB2BEnterpriseSaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

CSS

HTML

JavaScript

Next.js

Git

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

3+ days a week in office (Farringdon, London )

1-20 employees

HospitalityB2BEnterpriseSaaS

Company mission

Their mission is to help event managers organise brilliant events. They do this so that events teams succeed in bringing together people, places and ideas.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A UK events management SaaS company, based in Farringdon, with twenty years of stability and profit and a client list of large international enterprises across banking, automotive and law. Our customers operate in regulated sectors. The bar for what we ship is set by them, not by us
Five years or more building React.js and Next.js (14+) in production, ideally on a SaaS product
Deep JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Not framework deep, language deep
Real fluency with AI coding tools such as Cursor and Claude for writing, reviewing, refactoring and documenting code, and the judgement to know when to switch them off
Git, and a working command of CI/CD, TDD/BDD and Agile/Kanban delivery
A track record you can point at: something you owned end to end, where the outcome was materially better because you were the one holding it
The communication to disagree with a stakeholder, explain the trade-off, and be understood

What the job involves

We are rebuilding our platform, and we are looking for one person to own and drive the front end of it
This is not a role where you pick up tickets and hand them back
You will set the standard for front-end architecture, decide how it is built, and be accountable for whether it is good
That is a considerable amount of responsibility
We are hiring someone who wants it
We will be direct about what this is
We are a profitable, twenty-year-old SaaS business with blue-chip clients who are demanding and unforgiving, and we are in the most ambitious phase of our history
There are hard deadlines
There are weeks where the work is relentless and the standard still does not move
We plan properly so that those weeks stay the exception, but when one lands we need someone who is in it, not someone waiting for it to pass
What we care about is simple: you said you would do it, and it got done
Not hours at a desk
Not visible busyness
Done, to a standard you would defend in front of a tier-one bank's security team, because you may well have to
If that reads as a warning, it is meant to
If it reads as the job you have been waiting for, keep going
Lead, drive and own the front-end architecture of our platform rebuild: the structure, the patterns, the component system, the performance budget. Not contribute to. Take the lead
Turn designs and wireframes into work you are prepared to put your name on
Set the standard for speed, scalability and responsiveness, and hold the line on it in review
Build the reusable libraries and patterns the rest of the team will work inside for the next five years
Raise the technical level of the engineers around you, through code review, pairing and example
Drive AI-assisted development across the team. We use Cursor and Claude seriously, not decoratively, and we invest in tooling and training. You will be expected to hold strong opinions on where AI accelerates delivery and where it quietly degrades quality
Work directly with product, delivery and stakeholders on what we build, not only on how

Application process

Send a CV, plus a few paragraphs answering two questions:
Describe something you shipped that you owned end to end. What was hard about it, what did you get wrong, and what would you do differently?
Where has AI-assisted development made you faster, and where have you seen it make a codebase worse?
Applications without answers to both will not be reviewed. This is deliberate

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Eventogy was founded to pick up from where companies like Eventbrite and Hopin dropped off - only with corporate events in mind. The company provides its customers with solutions to manage events and campaigns, as well as all the reporting, surveying, and guest management that comes with it.

With several tools to support large-scale events, whether virtual or physical, Eventogy is well-placed to secure big clients who struggle with multi-platform event management. Customers are also afforded the opportunity to integrate with third-party platforms like Mailchimp, Salesforce, and Hubspot to build their own customisable ecosystem.

Eventogy has attracted enterprise companies in a range of different industries, from banks to law firms and automotive.