Front End Developer

Front End Developer Reading, England

Thames Water Utilites
Full Time Reading, England 68.75 - 81.25 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

Front End Developer- 6 Month Contract Inside IR35 regulations

This role will be based in our Clearwater Court, Reading.

Who are we?

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.

In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities, and the environment to thrive.

The Front-End Developer is a software engineering professional, specialising in the development of solutions for user interaction. This role will actively participate in the design, development, automated testing, and implementation of digital products. They will also help the team identify and adopt good software development and delivery practices, striving for continuous improvement within the team.

The role is responsible for building user interaction software by writing code, as well as modifying software to improve quality, adapting it to new infrastructure and improving its performance. You will work as part of an agile team to ensure the rapid release of high-quality, fit for purpose products that add value to Thames Water’s stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing

As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround... as part of the Digital team what role are they playing in making this happen.

  • Produce high-quality code to aid in the delivery of digital products
  • Provide technical leadership within the team
  • Consistently deliver to challenging business objectives and adhere to Service Level Agreements and KPIs
  • Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and make recommendations for improvement
  • Utilise Agile Technical practices; Test Driven development (TDD), Continuous Integration and Delivery, Pair Programming
  • Introduce appropriate processes and tools to optimise delivery and quality of software products
  • Collaborate within agile teams to ensure quality project/product execution and software development cycle

What you should bring to the role

We want to bring together a team of brilliant tech minds with game changing ideas. We’re looking for people who will help us re-imagine the way we work and the way we get things done:

  • A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
  • Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
  • People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.

Your Skills

  • Demonstrable experience as a Front-End Developer
  • Demonstrable practical experience with a wide variety of software development techniques and strategies
  • Significant experience of React, Redux, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Styled Components, Typescript, Sitecore
  • Sitecore certification would be an advantage
  • Some experience of working in an environment with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Azure
  • Experience of working with an agile team to deliver high quality solutions
  • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Test Driven development (TDD), Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is so we can manage all the applications properly and give candidates a positive experience. Once closed, we can’t consider any further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Front End Developer
Thames Water Utilites

corporate.thameswater.co.uk
Reading, United Kingdom
Sarah Bentley
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Private
Energy & Utilities
1989
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