Job Description
Software Engineer (Front-end)
Application Deadline: 12 September 2026
Department: Experience
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Reporting To: Software Team Lead
Bede builds market-leading gambling entertainment experiences, and great front-end engineering plays a huge part in how our products feel, perform and scale.
We’re looking for a Front-end leaning Software Engineer to join our Experience Tribe in Newcastle. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building high-quality, user-facing features, cares about clean and reusable code, and wants to work closely with product and other engineers to bring ideas to life.
This is a hybrid role that requires you to be in our Newcastle upon Tyne office two days a week. Please apply only if you’re comfortable with this arrangement.
What you'll be doing
- Building and evolving user-facing features using modern frontend technologies
- Writing clean, reusable and scalable code that stands the test of time
- Working closely with Product and other engineers to ensure designs are technically feasible and well-implemented
- Optimising applications for performance, responsiveness and scalability
- Contributing to documentation and shared knowledge, helping the whole team move faster
- Taking part in Scrum ceremonies and collaborating openly within your team
- Reviewing code, sharing feedback and supporting high engineering standards
- Debugging and problem-solving across frontend applications
What we are looking for
- Strong experience with HTML, CSS (including SASS) and JavaScript
- Experience working with JavaScript frameworks, ideally React Native with TypeScript
- Comfortable consuming RESTful APIs and working with JSON
- Confident building responsive, iOS and Android applications
- Experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude or similar) into the software development workflow to accelerate delivery, enhance code quality and improve productivity
- Experience with asset build tools and frontend tooling
- Solid understanding of Git and version control workflows
- A good grasp of accessibility, web standards and UX best practices
- Experience reviewing code and sharing knowledge with others
- A practical, problem-solving mindset and the ability to debug effectively
- Happy working independently on tasks while also collaborating as part of a team
What we can offer you
Here at Bede, we offer a competitive salary and a strong benefits package, but what really matters to us is creating an environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to do their best work. We’re a people-centric business and we regularly review our benefits based on colleague feedback, so what we offer continues to reflect what matters most to our teams.
Some of the benefits you can expect include:
- A friendly, flexible and trust-based approach to working
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and usually a generous Christmas break
- Fully matched private pension scheme (up to 8%)
- Bupa private healthcare from day one, including cash plan benefits, dental and optical cover (covers all pre-existing conditions)
- Life assurance cover of 4x your annual salary
- Employee Assistance Programme (via Bupa), providing confidential support and practical advice whenever you might need it
- Access to Calm - the #1 app for meditation and sleep
- Innovation and learning – space to develop skills, try new ideas and experiment, with an annual hackathon where some ideas make it into real work.
- A work-owned mobile phone or tablet of your choice, with the monthly contract covered by us
- A great office setup – free snacks and drinks every day, plus regular food vans from some of the best places in Newcastle
- Bede Bucks – exclusive colleague discounts and access to a wellbeing platform
- Lots of social events – both in and outside of working hours
- Referral programme – help us grow the team and receive a referral bonus of up to £3,000 (pre-tax, subject to scheme terms)
- Bede swag – including hoodies, t-shirts and our much-loved Bede socks
- Bede Holidays – extra discretionary days off through the year as a thank-you for the great work our teams do
