UK Remote Job – React Front End Developer at Satalia (UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor)
Job Title: React Front End Developer
Company: Satalia
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: Not Specified
Description
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- Build the Solve shared visual workspace and real-time collaborative canvas
- Ship frontend code in the canvas and collaboration layer
- Work closely with the technical lead, architect, and QA
- Implement canvas interactions including pan, zoom, drag, selection, spatial layout, and rich interactive cards
- Keep the canvas performant with hundreds of live cards
- Manage frontend state across transient interaction, persistent product state, and server-authoritative data
- Implement real-time collaboration features including presence, optimistic updates, reconnects, missed-event recovery, and conflict handling
- Own client-side Server-Sent Events handling, including EventSource, heartbeats, token-authenticated streams, and backoff reconnects
- Help determine where WebSockets should be used
- Build AI-facing surfaces for streaming output, agent status, partial results, approvals, and recovery
- Ensure performance, accessibility, and testing strategy
- Implement the per-entity patch wire over SSE
- Add optimistic apply with resync on missed events
- Build a pending-edits queue that survives reloads
- Resolve data-loss defects across load, save-conflict, and live-update paths
- Prototype, simplify, and maintain legible systems with specs, designs, and tests
Requirements
- Senior frontend engineering experience
- Deep React (or equivalent) expertise
- Strong browser-state expertise
- Experience building complex interactive products such as a canvas, editor, map, design tool, whiteboard, or collaborative app
- Understanding of state ownership, rendering, browser performance, component decomposition, and failure-prone interactions
- Experience with collaborative software authority and conflict rules
- Experience shipping real-time event handling over WebSockets or Server-Sent Events
- Understanding of event ordering, reconnects, and missed-event recovery on unreliable connections
- Familiarity with coding agents and AI-native frontend problems
- Ability to design API request and response shapes with backend teams
- Understanding of idempotency and optimistic concurrency
- Ability to decide which side owns a given piece of state
- Technical familiarity with monorepos, CI, quality gates, feature flags, and design systems is useful
- Ability to work in the UK
- Contract availability for 3 months
Benefits
- Truly flexible working
- Wellbeing and inclusivity focus
- Safe and inviting work environment
- Autonomy and freedom
- Warm, inclusive culture
- Diverse and challenging projects
- Technical skills development through hands-on work
- Employees’ opinions valued, and achievements celebrated
How to Apply;
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