Senior Front End Developer Department for Work & Pensions

Reference

60540

Location

Leeds and Manchester

Salary

Up to £66,064

Work hours

37

Employment type

Permanent

Job benefits

A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.

Closing date

16 August 2020

Job description

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP are looking for ambitious software engineers and developers to work with us on in a once-in-a-generation digital transformation. Our people work on projects that are revolutionising products and services that are used by millions of people every day.

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.

Delivery. Work. Projects.

We’re looking for people who want to work on demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. You’ll be part of creating a flagship welfare reform programme that will change the face of public services and have the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

As a Senior Front End Developer you will be a skilled Practitioner and a role model in software craftsmanship. Responsible for building elegant, accessible and scalable services that meet User needs. You will be 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 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.

Our Senior Front End Developers are responsible for writing quality test-driven code, using modern frameworks and development techniques within a test driven development (TDD) environment; our developers are also 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;

Other responsibilities include:
• Responsible for building accessible and performant interfaces across multiple devices and browsers;
• 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

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• 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 our brilliant digital hub in Manchester or Leeds. Find out more about our hubs here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/

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.

Development. Wages. Perks.

In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £66,064 a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth over 27%, and a generous leave package.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working
• 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
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application. If you want to talk about this opportunity before you apply contact me via dean.simon@dwp.gov.uk

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