Front End Engineer

Application Deadline: 3 April 2026

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Belfast

Reporting To: Noel King

Compensation: £35,000 - £45,000 / year

Description

Imagine catching criminals before they strike—that’s exactly what Napier’s AI-powered platform does! By analysing transactions and customers in real time, Napier AI’s technology empowers financial institutions to spot suspicious activity, like money laundering, and stops it in its tracks.

magine catching criminals before they strike—that’s exactly what Napier’s AI-powered platform does! By analysing transactions and customers in real time, Napier AI’s technology empowers financial institutions to spot suspicious activity, like money laundering, and stops it in its tracks.

Napier AI’s technology works like a digital detective, combining AI with smart analytics to outthink criminals and protect people’s money from becoming criminal proceeds. It’s not just about stopping crime—it’s about making the financial world safer and more trustworthy for everyone.

Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.

After successfully securing PI investment to fuel our ongoing growth and to further invest in our AI products, we are currently building out our Tech Hub in Belfast - this is a super exciting time to join Napier in Belfast as we expand.

About The Role

As a Front End Engineer in our centre of excellence, you'll be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product. Your work will help our customers monitor their money laundering and customer risk, no matter the scale.

You will be part of a talented team working on products and experiments using modern development standards and industry best practices. You will work closely with other software engineers, UX, machine learning experts, domain experts and product managers to plan, coordinate and integrate your work.

Your day to day: Front End Engineer

• Use tools like React and Next.js to help streamline the flow of data from platform to user, enable seamless pivots from one view to the next, and build a powerful yet easy-to-use platform.
• You will work on complex frontend challenges with huge sets of data and work on exciting scalability and machine learning challenges.
• You will work across the team, helping to design user experiences and implement responsive, high-performance state-of-the-art applications.
  
  

Do you have what it takes?

• Front-End languages such as React and Next.js

Integrating with automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress etc

Familiar wity GraphQL

Module Bundlers (e.g., Webpack): Ability to set up and configure bundlers for Single Page Applications

Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills

We’d be thrilled if you also have experience with, and are keen to grow your skills in, some of these other areas:

• UI performance engineering principles and tools
• UX / User Research experience
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling
  
  

In return we’ll offer you the opportunities to:

• Opportunities to work in one of the most technology ambitious companies in Belfast that is solving a real world and high impact problem
• Work with supportive colleagues who will provide one-on-one mentoring to help you apply your talents to real world development challenges
• Grow professionally within the organisation as your career moves along a development path to promotion and the achievement of your professional goals
• Learn the Financial Services AML and Compliance domains and gain a deep understanding of the challenges that Financial Institutions face

Be part of a high-performance engineering team

Why Napier?

• Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays, your birthday and a wellness day
• Dedicated pension plan through Aviva
• Life Insurance 4x your annual salary
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
• Income protections policy
• Work from anywhere for up to 1 month
• Access to our employee wellbeing programme.
• Gym membership discounts.
• Flexibility in work schedules and locations, ensuring a work-life balance.
• This role can be fulfilled either with a hybrid approach or fully in-office – depending on your preference.
• An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you.
  

Please note applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom. We are unable to offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.