TypeScript/Vue.JS Software Engineer 6 Month Contract (Remote, UK)

Fully remote, UK-based £400 – £500 per day (Outside IR35) 3–6 Month Contract Esenda powers over £1.5bn of inbound and outbound payments annually, in the education space - from tuition and catering fees to supplier payments and payroll.  We’re a revenue-generating startup with strong product-market fit, and we’re growing fast.  Design, build, and ship high-quality front-end features using TypeScript and Vue.js. Own features end-to-end: translating product requirements and Figma prototypes into intuitive user experiences, building robust components, integrating with APIs, testing, rollout, and iteration. Help shape our front-end architecture, ensuring the codebase remains scalable, maintainable, and easy to work with as the product grows. Work closely with backend engineers to deliver customer-facing outcomes, not just “tickets”. Help uphold strong engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, testing discipline, clean architecture, and pragmatic decision-making. CI/CD improvements, incremental shipping, automated testing, and maintaining a high-quality codebase. 5+ years’ experience building and shipping production front-end applications. ~ Strong experience with TypeScript and Vue.js, ideally in complex SaaS or B2B product environments. ~ Solid understanding of modern front-end architecture: component design, state management, routing, API integration, testing, and performance. ~ Experience building maintainable design systems or reusable component libraries. ~ Comfortable working closely with APIs, understanding data contracts, edge cases, loading states, error handling, and user flows. ~ A strong quality mindset: you care about usability, accessibility, maintainability, security, reliability, and clear documentation. ~ Bonus points for   Payments/fintech knowledge (reconciliation, idempotency, auditability, ledger concepts).  Python, Flask  Data: Postgres  Cloud: AWS  Delivery: CI/CD, automated testing, observability tooling  Pragmatic, high-ownership teams with a bias to shipping  Clear communication, strong collaboration, and continuous improvement  Code reviews and sensible standards that keep quality high without slowing delivery