FRONT END DEVELOPER Leeds, England
Job description
As a Senior Front End Developer you will build accessible user interfaces for services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers. You will manage junior Front End Developers and provide support by sharing their specialist knowledge and experience. You will use modern tooling and development techniques to iteratively write and share test-driven code. You will also engage with senior stakeholders and assist with recruitment within the digital community. You will have expert level knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines.
The skills we need are a Front End Java Script developer with:
- Strong Java Script
- Node JS
- Templating engine such as Nunjucks would be advantageous
- Vue.js experience would be advantageous.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team responsible for:
- Turning concepts into production-ready user-centred services
- Responsible for building accessible and performant interfaces across multiple devices and browsers
- Responsible for writing quality test-driven code, using modern frameworks and development techniques within a test driven development (TDD) environment
- responsible for integration into the back-end infrastructure of a service. Responsible for adhering to and shaping the high standards to which DWP products and services are built, ensuring that the team uses modern web development techniques
- Responsible that the design and implementation of services is consistent, both internally and with the rest of wider UK government services
- Responsible for Identifying and understanding technical and business constraints and is able to work within them whilst contributing back to existing government frameworks
- Responsible for actively shaping the bigger picture and contribution to the definition and maintenance of standards
- Responsible for Building, maintaining and sharing reusable libraries of code. Responsible for contributing to cross-government code libraries
- Responsible for managing other developers work and development, establishing standards and promoting best practice
- Responsible for provide support and sharing specialist knowledge and experience with others in the team and organisation
- Support recruitment for the Digital Front End Community
- Responsible for managing relationships with senior stakeholders ensuring alignment across activities and cross functional teams
Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Interviews will be held next week, please apply immediately or call Bangura Solutions to discuss this contract role further.
