Senior React Front-end Developer
Job description
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The opportunity
Our EY Consulting ambition is to become the world’s leading transformation consultants, trusted to help our clients generate long-term value. We’re building world-class capabilities in business, technology and people consulting to help us deliver on EY’s purpose of building a better working world — our firm’s broader ambition to become the world’s most trusted, distinctive professional services organization.
Our clients are at the heart of our new strategy. We’re focused on solving the key issues of our client buyers, building deeper relationships, and making a greater impact. We’re introducing a new go-to-market narrative — Transformation Realized™ — to help us harness the core drivers of transformation that will create long-term value for our clients.
To achieve this, we are seeking a Senior React Front-end Developer to join our Technology Transformation Consulting practice. Our team is part of EY’s Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia (CESA) cluster, delivering market leading services to organizations across industries in Cyprus and internationally.
The transformation imperative is urgent, challenging and opportunity-rich, interested to join us?
Your Key Responsibilities
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Lead architecture and development of large‑scale, high‑performance React applications.
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Own the definition of coding standards, patterns, documentation, and reusable component libraries.
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Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and guide technical decisions.
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Collaborate with backend, DevOps, security, and product teams for end‑to‑end delivery.
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Contribute to the technical design of the overall full-stack solutions.
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Drive advanced performance optimization and complex issue debugging.
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Stay ahead of modern React ecosystem trends and lead adoption initiatives.
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
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7–10 years of software development experience, with 5+ years specialized in React.js and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
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Proven experience with architectural patterns (micro‑frontends, modular architectures).
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Deep expertise in TypeScript, component architecture, state management (Redux, Zustand, MobX), and performance tuning.
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Strong experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
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Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP), including hosting, scaling, CDNs, caching, and serverless functions.
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Proven experience implementing authentication & authorization flows (e.g. OAuth2 / OIDC, JWT).
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Expertise with Next.js including SSR, SSG, ISR, routing, middleware, API routes, and edge rendering.
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Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, code quality automation, and release management.
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Experience deploying & monitoring client-side & full-stack front-end applications.
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Must be based in Cyprus, or willing to relocate, and follow a hybrid work model (3 days per week onsite).
Skills and attributes for success
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Ability to architect scalable front-end solutions in cloud-native environments using micro-frontend or distributed UI patterns.
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Strong understanding of performance budgets, bundle analysis, caching strategies, CDN usage, and Core Web Vitals optimization.
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Ability to collaborate across backend, DevOps, cloud, and product teams to design and deliver end-to-end solutions.
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Deep understanding of security best practices, including XSS, CSRF, CSP, CORS, secure tokens, and API security.
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Strong debugging and observability mindset (logs, metrics, tracing, APM).
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Ability to mentor engineers, drive code standards, lead architectural reviews, and elevate engineering quality.
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Ability to design and oversee AI‑augmented development workflows, ensuring junior and mid-level developers use agents responsibly, safely, and effectively.
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Strong understanding of agentic AI patterns (multi‑step planning, codebase reasoning, test coverage analysis, incremental refactoring).
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Expertise in critical evaluation of AI-suggested implementations, balancing innovation with stability, security, and maintainability.
Ideally you should also have
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Experience integrating real-time features such as WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE), Socket.io, Pub/Sub systems.
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Experience with notifications systems, including push notifications & in-app messaging.
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Experience building or integrating design systems / component libraries (Storybook, MUI).
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Cloud native development certification (Azure/AWS)
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Accessibility engineering (WCAG/ARIA) experience.
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Exposure to containerization and DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
What we offer you
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.
In addition to a competitive salary, our benefits include but are not limited to:
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13th salary and yearly bonus
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Provident Fund
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Private Medical and Life Insurance
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Flexible working arrangements (hybrid work and flexible work schedule)
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Friday afternoon off
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EY Tech MBA and EY MSc in Business Analytics
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EY Badges - digital learning certificates
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Mobility programs (if interested to work abroad)
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Paid Sick Leave
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Paid Paternity Leave
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Yearly wellbeing days off
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Maternity, Wedding and New Baby Gifts
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EY Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (counselling, legal and financial consultation services)
About EY
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.