Description
As a senior Front End engineer, your job will be to lead how we develop, modify and maintain elements of services that people see and interact with at end client
You'll work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver world-class services designed for the people who use them, in line with the government's Digital Service Standard.
Front End developers build accessible user interfaces for services in prototype and production environments. These interfaces must work across multiple devices and browsers. You'll take responsibility for the quality of code you produce.
This role is about defining and maintaining standards. It's about making sure products and services are built with modern web development techniques. These will include thinking about user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, and accessibility and browser compatibility.
You should have substantial experience of building services that work and perform quickly across different devices and browsers using modern HTML, CSS and JavaScript technologies such as Node.js and express.
Essential Technologies/Skills:
HTML5/CSS3
JavaScript (including Node.js, ReactJS, ExpressJS, Mongoose)
Frontend frameworks like Nunjucks, Freemarker, Bootstrap, LESS and SASS
CI tooling like Git, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, SonarQube Nexus, Artifactory
Java (11) (including Spring Boot, Drop Wizard, Jersey, CXF and Maven) - Desirable
AWS or Microsoft Azure experience - Desirable
Candidate must have previous GOV.UK experience