Senior Front End Developer Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
10804
Location
London, Leeds, Sheffield
Salary
Up to £66,064
Work hours
37 hours per week (flexible working)
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 20%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more
Closing date
16 September 2019
Job description
If you’re creative and curious to learn, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring BIG ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here. And we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for talented, experienced Front End Developers to join our growing community of experts and become a key part of one of the biggest and highest-profile digital transformation programmes in the world.
Using fresh ideas and leading edge technologies – and putting the user at the centre of everything we do – we create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users.
You and your role
This is an opportunity to work as a Senior Front End Developer in a user-centred and user-focused organisation, as part of a community with a passion for accessibility, where the size and scale of services you’ll work on is huge. The work you do has the potential to touch tens of millions of people who rely on our services, including some of the most vulnerable in our society.
We don’t work to commercial drivers. What’s important to us is making products and services that work for everyone, so we give you the time to craft the right solution. We know your skills are sought after and valuable; we want to give you the opportunity and the flexibility to work in a way that suits you and delivers for us.You’ll join a thriving engineering community, and work day-to-day as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside analysts, engineers, researchers, data and delivery experts and many more. We provide the latest and best tech, tools and working practices to help you succeed and excel.
As a Senior Front End Developer, you will be a skilled practitioner and a role model in software craft. Responsible for building elegant, accessible and scalable services that meet user needs, you’ll make sure best practices are adhered to a guide teams to deliver quality, robust, stable and available software products and code
You should have expert knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines.
What are we looking for?
- Experience in front-end development, with detailed knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Web standards
- Experience of node.js Development
- Understanding of software design principles, including progressive enhancement
- Experience in building robust and accessible interfaces that work for as many users as possible, regardless of their needs
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
- A systematic approach to solving problems
- Experience of using testing to validate solutions
- Understanding of agile environments and version control
- An understanding of web security
- Understanding of technologies used for web applications, e.g HTTPS, JSON and REST
Where You’ll Work
You’ll join us in one of our brilliant new digital hubs in either Leeds, London or Sheffield. Get in touch to find out more about your preferred location.
We provide the latest tech and tooling and foster a collaborative culture to help our agile, multidisciplinary teams think big and try new things. You will work alongside people who care passionately about public service, making a difference and delivering for our customers.
We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Our Offer
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £66,064, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Volunteering and charitable giving
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Learning and training opportunities, including coaching, mentoring, events, community meet ups and lots more
- Clear career paths and opportunities to progress
HOW TO APPLY: For further information and to start an application click apply now. If you would like to discuss this role and our offer contact me via andrew.renton@dwp.gov.uk