Parallax Agency Ltd

Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Reporting To: Tech Director Description We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead to help shape the future of our most ambitious client projects. This is a senior, hands on role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic consultancy. You'll be working at the earliest stages of client engagements - helping uncover the real problems, defining the right approach, and proposing commercially viable, technically sound solutions without needing to escape for support. You'll represent Parallax with confidence, pitch ideas persuasively, and guide both clients and internal teams from initial scoping through to architecture, delivery and optimisation. Equally comfortable in the code and leading client workshops, you'll set the technical direction while working in squads to build products for our clients. Our clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. You must be able to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards - or define new ones entirely. Working at a strategic level, you will influence project roadmaps, craft Statements of Work and contribute directly to winning new engagements. Key Responsibilities Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define and develop the long term software architecture strategy; establish and maintain best practice design patterns, coding standards and technical guidelines across multiple projects. Discovery & Requirements: Lead technical discovery workshops with senior stakeholders, unpicking complex requirements, mapping system dependencies and aligning solutions to business objectives. Hands On Development & Delivery: Balance strategic oversight with hands on coding-designing, building and deploying critical features; conducting code reviews; and ensuring high performance, security and scalability. DevOps & Operational Excellence: Oversee CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing and monitoring to drive operational resilience and rapid iteration. Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Champion test driven development, continuous integration, automated testing frameworks and peer review processes to uphold code quality. Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers, product managers and QA specialists to deliver quality outcomes Thought Leadership: Represent our Technology Practice internally and externally-presenting at client meetings, industry events and contributing to the broader engineering community on emerging trends and innovations. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Demonstrable experience delivering or building AI applications. Strong Next.js or equivalent Javascript framework, React and AWS experience. Balance leadership with hands on software development, working with teams to create and ship high quality solutions. Identify strategic opportunities and contribute to proposals, estimates and Statement of Work scoping. A deep understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns and system integration. Solid experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and automation tooling. Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery practices. Strong quality assurance mindset, including test driven development and peer code reviews. Ability to unpick and resolve complex technical problems, architecting scalable, maintainable solutions. Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting technical concepts and recommendations to senior stakeholders. Ability to establish and evolve technical standards, guidelines and reusable component libraries. High emotional intelligence and consultancy mindset for managing client relationships and expectations. You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams while inspiring and guiding your team. You are self motivated, highly organised and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes. You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes. We welcome people from under represented backgrounds at Parallax. Similarly, if you don't tick all of the boxes please still apply! Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised

Senior Webflow Designer Department: Design Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Reporting To: Principal Designer Compensation: £45,000 - £55,000 / year Description We're looking for a Senior Webflow Designer to join our growing digital experience team in Leeds. We were recently named Webflow's Agency of the Year - a reflection of the quality of our work, the trust our clients place in us, and our relentless drive to push boundaries. You'll use your strong UX and design skills alongside hands on Webflow expertise to create, build, and optimise world class websites and digital experiences that align business goals with user needs. This is a role where you'll: Lead discovery and digital design across complex, multi stakeholder projects. Translate ideas and Figma prototypes into responsive, accessible Webflow builds. Shape scalable component systems, guide clients through CMS training, and continuously refine our approach to design led Webflow delivery. You'll work across sectors - from fast moving start ups to global enterprises - where creativity, technical rigour, and attention to detail drive measurable impact. Key Responsibilities Webflow Design & Development Build pixel perfect, responsive Webflow sites directly from Figma using best practice frameworks (Client First, Lumos, Relume). Manage Variants, Variables, and CMS collections for scalable, flexible design systems. Implement advanced interactions (Webflow Interactions 3.0, GSAP, Lottie/Rive) and support multi locale content. Optimise for accessibility, SEO, and performance across all devices and variants. Integrate with tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zapier to connect marketing and CRM workflows. Stay on top of Webflow's evolving feature set and broader design system innovations. Contribute to internal frameworks and component libraries for reusability and scalability. Advocate for accessibility, inclusivity, and performance in every project. Digital Design & Strategy Lead user centred design from discovery through to delivery, setting the creative and strategic direction of projects. Collaborate with senior stakeholders to plan and facilitate high level workshops that align business objectives, aspirations, KPIs, and user requirements. Create information architectures, user journeys, and wireframes that guide elegant, intuitive experiences. Plan and conduct user research, testing, and validation to uncover insights, inform design decisions, and ensure solutions meet real user needs. Maintain design consistency through design systems, tokens, and variables. Collaboration & Mentorship Partner with developers, strategists, and Delivery Managers to deliver design solutions efficiently and collaboratively. Support junior designers, champion design standards, and share best practices around UX and Webflow delivery. Contribute to estimates, proposals and new business activities, identifying strategic opportunities for design innovation. Client & Stakeholder Engagement Present confidently to senior stakeholders, explaining design rationale and Webflow implementation clearly. Conduct CMS training sessions and create supporting documentation to empower client teams. Build long term client relationships by delivering measurable outcomes and ongoing optimisation. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Essential 5+ years' experience in UX, UI, or digital product design (agency or consultancy background preferred). Strong Webflow expertise (Client First / Lumos / Relume frameworks, Variants, Variables, CMS). Proven track record of shipping complex Webflow sites - ideally within Partner or Enterprise environments. Excellent UX and visual design skills, with deep understanding of layout, hierarchy, and typography. Strong understanding of content strategy and its role in UX, with the ability to structure clear, intuitive information architectures. Strong proficiency in Figma for both design and variable management. Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems. Understanding of accessibility (WCAG 2.1), responsive design, and technical SEO. Confidence in stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and CMS training. Experience collaborating within agile teams. Strong commercial awareness, ensuring solutions effectively balance business objectives with client and end user needs to deliver meaningful, impactful outcomes. Nice to Have Familiarity with GSAP, Spline, Rive, or other motion design tools. Experience with DevLink, Webflow Cloud, or headless setups. Knowledge of HubSpot / Salesforce / Zapier integrations. Background in brand design or low code system architecture. Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) Flexible hours Hybrid working Quarterly hack days & professional development time City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Enhanced maternity & paternity leave Subsidised gym or streaming services Regular team events At Parallax, hybrid means being flexible and close enough to commute into the office when needed, rather than following a fixed schedule of set days each week. There may be times when you're required on site for an extended period, for example, a full week supporting a client project, then other weeks you're not required in at all. While the rhythm varies depending on project demands, we value the collaboration and energy that comes from working together in person, so we'd love to see you in the office.

Senior UX Designer Department: Design Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Compensation: £45,000 - £60,000 / year Description We're looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior UX Designer to join our Experience Design team. This is a varied role allowing you to flex your creative muscles across strategic discovery, UX challenges, content, mobile apps and interactive digital designs. This role sits at the intersection of research, strategy, interaction design and visual communication. You'll lead discovery, translate insight into clear experience direction, and collaborate with cross-functional squads to deliver usable, elegant and commercially impactful solutions. You'll be joining a consultancy with a varied client base across sectors and markets, so you'll need to flex your style, adapt quickly, and design for both brand maturity and greenfield environments. As a Senior UX Designer, you must be able to showcase a highly polished portfolio of designs with various digital products and experiences (websites, apps etc.). You must also be able to demonstrate effectively how your UX strategies and/or designs have transformed businesses and delivered results. Key Responsibilities Plan and lead discovery workshops, aligning on objectives, requirements, KPIs and success measures. Plan and run user research (interviews, usability testing, unmoderated tests, workshops). Synthesise findings into clear, actionable insights and present them to stakeholders and the team. Define user journeys, IA, user flows and feature prioritisation. Translate business goals, user needs and technical constraints into coherent UX direction and design recommendations. Turn ideas into wireframes, flows and interactive prototypes. Iterate rapidly based on insight, feasibility discussions and stakeholder feedback. Contribute to and maintain design systems in Figma; apply strong visual design principles across typography, layout and interaction patterns. Collaborate with developers, designers and delivery managers in cross-functional squads. Provide high-quality specifications, annotations and handover documentation, and support build feasibility and design quality throughout delivery. Communicate design rationale to senior stakeholders and guide them through decisions with confidence and clarity. Mentor mid-weight and junior designers, promoting a culture of feedback, openness and continuous improvement. Contribute to estimates, proposals and new business activities, identifying strategic opportunities for design innovation. Contribute to refining the Parallax design process, driving operational excellence from discovery through to delivery. You're a clear communicator who can confidently influence, challenge and guide stakeholders and peers. You balance user needs with commercial goals and technical constraints, and make pragmatic decisions when required. You work well under pressure, handle ambiguity with maturity, and be highly self-organised. You're collaborative, humble and open to feedback, but not afraid to challenge assumptions. You're eager to grow, take ownership and become a trusted partner within the team and wider business. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise What you need to have: 5+ years' experience in UX, UI, or digital product design (agency or consultancy background preferred). Strong experience planning and facilitating discovery workshops. Hands on experience running user interviews, usability tests and unmoderated testing to validate concepts or designs. Strong experience with Figma, including design systems (building, maintaining or evolving them). Ability to translate insight into clear IA, user flows, wireframes and journey maps. Strong visual design sensibility and attention to detail across typography, composition and layout. Experience working with brand guidelines or shaping new visual directions where needed. Clear understanding of content design principles and how content shapes UX. Experience working in agile teams and contributing to iterative delivery cycles. Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles. Nice to have Experience designing within low-code/no-code environments (e.g. Webflow). Experience within a digital/tech consultancy. Exposure to analytics, experimentation or data-driven optimisation. Experience in IoT, AI-assisted products, or AI-assisted design. Experience on branding projects. Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised

Senior Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Compensation: £50,000 - £70,000 / month At Parallax, we celebrate the curious. The people who love getting stuck into tough challenges and building technology that genuinely moves the needle and demonstrates the art of the possible. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building great products to join our growing team. You'll spend most of your time writing code, solving complex technical challenges, and working collaboratively with UX designers, engineers and others across multiple projects - with some of your time focused on improving how we deploy, scale, and monitor our applications. Our clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. We're innovators at heart, we work with technology that we're passionate and excited about and use it to produce software and products that our customers love. Key Responsibilities Work as part of a cross-functional squad to design, build and ship high-quality digital products for our clients Take ownership of complex technical challenges - unpicking problems and proposing well-structured, pragmatic solutions Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in languages and frameworks such as Node.js, TypeScript, and React. We also use other open-source languages and frameworks. Contribute to estimates and technical planning alongside your team and the Client Lead Communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical people - from clients to internal stakeholders - to explain ideas, trade-offs, and recommendations Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Support the design, deployment, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure - primarily on AWS (ECS, ECR, Lambda, CloudFront, RDS, etc.) and Azure (you don't need to be an expert but being interested helps!) Promote strong engineering practices around code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, observability, and security and help instil a culture of quality and accountability in engineering. Collaborate closely with designers, product managers and QA to ensure solutions are user-focused, technically sound, and aligned with client needs. Skills & Experience What you need to have: A passion for technology and continuous learning Strong software engineering background with ideally 3+ years experience building and maintaining production systems Strong hands on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, especially Next.js, React and React Native, other languages like Python/C#/PHP, a bonus Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence - able to collaborate effectively and adapt your style when working with technical and non-technical people A collaborative mindset. You enjoy working closely with UX designers, delivery managers, product managers and other engineers Confident problem solver able to troubleshoot complex systems and guide others to effective technical solutions, while being able to balance quality with delivery Flexibility to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards Proficient with CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as GitHub Actions Passion for code quality, with a strong understanding of TDD, automated testing, and peer review processes Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery in cross functional teams Nice to haves: (don't worry if you don't have any of the following experiences, we'd still like to hear from you) Experience working on AI, IoT, or large scale web and mobile applications Curiosity about mentoring or progressing toward a Principal Tech Lead role Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform and AWS CDK) Good understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch etc.) You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams while inspiring and guiding your team. You are self motivated, highly organised and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes. You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes. Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised