Front End Developer

Description:

Would you love to take user tested designs and deliver working products with our Software Engineers?

The DWP Design System team is looking for a Senior Front-end Developer to help deliver the department’s ambition to re-use design, code, research, data and best practice across multiple services, products and tools.

As a Senior Front End Developer, you will be a skilled Practitioner and a role model in software craftsmanship. Responsible for ensuring best practices are adhered to across the department and guiding teams on how to deliver quality software products.

You will assist in the design of software products that make up citizen/agent services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code your teams produce. You will have expert level knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team responsible for turning concepts into production-ready user-centred services.
• You will be responsible for building accessible and performant interfaces across multiple devices and browsers.
• You will write quality test-driven code, using modern frameworks and development techniques within a test driven development (TDD) environment.
• You will be 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.
• You act to ensure that the design and implementation of services is consistent, both internally and with the rest of wider UK government services.
• You will be responsible for Building, maintaining and sharing reusable libraries of code. Responsible for contributing to cross-government code libraries.
• An employer pension contribution of up to 27% For further information please click here.
• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.