Frontend Developer
Northwind Labs · Manchester, United Kingdom
FeaturedHybridFull-time£48K – £62K/yr
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- CSS
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Northwind Labs
Analytics tooling for mid-market retailers
Software120 employeesFounded 20174.5 / 5 from 2 reviews
- Open roles
- 5
- Headquarters
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Average advertised
- £29K/yr
- Website
- Visit
Overview
Northwind Labs builds reporting and forecasting software used by regional retail chains to plan stock and staffing. The engineering team is small relative to the customer base, which means engineers here talk to customers directly and own features from design through to support. Hiring is deliberately slow and the interview process is unusually transparent about scope and pay.
Culture and ways of working
Written-first: decisions are documented in short proposals before meetings. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 UK time with flexibility either side. No on-call rota for product engineers.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave plus public holidays
- Remote-first within the UK with quarterly team weeks
- £1,200 annual learning budget
- Enhanced parental leave from day one
- Company pension with 6% employer contribution
Office locations
- Manchester, United Kingdom · HQ
Open roles at Northwind Labs
Junior Frontend Developer
Northwind Labs · Manchester, United Kingdom
HybridFull-time£30K – £38K/yr
- React
- TypeScript
- CSS
- Testing
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Operations Coordinator
Northwind Labs · Manchester, United Kingdom
HybridFull-time£26K – £31K/yr
- Excel
- Communication
- Project management
- Customer service
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Product Designer
Northwind Labs · Remote · United Kingdom
RemoteContract£400 – £500/hr
- Figma
- Communication
- Data analysis
- Accessibility
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Graduate Software Engineer
Northwind Labs · Manchester, United Kingdom
HybridInternship£26K – £29K/yr
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- SQL
- Communication
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Employee reviews
Submitted by current and former employees and reviewed by our moderation team before publication.
Small team, real ownership
4 / 5Former engineer · Frontend Developer
You talk to customers directly, which is unusual and makes the work feel connected to something. Two office days is genuinely two, not a slow creep back to five. Progression is less structured than at a larger firm, so you have to ask for it.
Pros: Customer contact, written culture, honest interview process
Cons: Progression framework is thin; tooling budget is tight
The rota and planning actually work
5 / 5Current employee · Operations Coordinator
Coming from a company where everything was last minute, having decisions written down before meetings has been a genuine relief. Managers here read the documents.
Pros: Planning discipline, flexible hours, supportive manager
Cons: Small company means occasional single points of failure
Interviewing at Northwind Labs
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Read the overview above and the open roles below, then prepare two examples that map to the responsibilities that appear repeatedly across their listings. Repeated requirements across several adverts are the clearest signal of what the organisation actually values.
Our behavioural interview guide covers the questions that appear in almost every process, and the salary negotiation guide covers what to do when the offer arrives.