A Front End Developer is needed for a large Central Government department, with a strong focus on accessibility with user-centric design, skilled in semantic HTML, CSS/JavaScript and GDS experience would be beneficial. Using agile methods, you will work closely with other members of the scrum team throughout the development cycle in order to design, build, test, maintain and support new digital services.


What you’ll do:

• Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well-defined user needs. 

• Provide mentorship and/or line management for more junior Front-end developers where necessary.

• Contribute to a culture of continual improvement in which key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved. 

• Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment. Become involved in the wider web development community, building relationships with other front-end developers and identifying best practices we can adopt. 

• Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider digital team and across government. 

• Completion of work allocated within agreed time, cost and quality criteria and providing progress reports on assigned work as required Prompt escalation of problems, issues and risks as necessary

What you’ll need:

HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, SASS, BEM (Block, Element and Modifier naming convention) Digital, Open Source, Scala, Play Framework, JSON, XML, Microservices, JavaScript, Node.js, REST, JUnit, Selenium (Automation), Git, Github, accessibility standards, WCAG 2.1, accessibility testing tools such as WAVE, Pa11y, Siteimprove Open Source & Digital experience - the ability to pick up new tools.