Front-End Developer (React/Modern JavaScript) - eSC/eDV Clearance

IBM; Abbots Worthy; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Employee assistance program

Pension plan

25 days holiday

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking an experienced Front-End Application Developer to design, develop, and support modern web and mobile interfaces. You will translate UI/UX designs into responsive, accessible experiences using React, Vue.js or Next.js, and contribute to architectural decisions for front-end delivery.

The role involves mentoring developers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and guiding testing, performance, and CI/CD practices to ensure high-quality software and

Qualifications

• Proven front-end development experience with modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Translating UI/UX designs into responsive, accessible interfaces.
• Collaborating with designers, backend engineers, QA and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality, responsive front-end interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Translate UI/UX designs into functional experiences with cross-browser compatibility.
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, QA and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Build reusable components, UI patterns, and maintain clean code.
• Conduct testing, debugging, and performance optimisation for a smooth UX.
• Participate in requirements analysis and design discussions.
• Contribute to CI/CD processes and Git-based workflows.
• Stay current with front-end technologies and apply them appropriately.
• Lead front-end development on complex projects when required.

Skills

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

React

Vue.js

Next.js

Responsive design

Accessibility

UI/UX collaboration

Git

API integration

Testing (unit/integration)

CI/CD

DevOps familiarity

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Node.js exposure

Job description

The Front-End Application Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting modern user interfaces for web and mobile applications. The role involves translating UI/UX designs into responsive, accessible, and performant front-end experiences using modern JavaScript frameworks. Depending on experience, responsibilities may also include leading front-end delivery, defining architecture, setting engineering standards, mentoring developers, and engaging with stakeholders and clients.

• Develop high-quality, responsive, and accessible front-end interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Translate UI/UX designs into functional user experiences, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and adherence to brand and design guidelines.
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, QA, DevOps, and other team members to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Build reusable components, UI patterns, and maintain clean, well-structured code.
• Conduct testing, debugging, and performance optimisation to ensure a smooth user experience.
• Participate in requirements analysis, providing front-end input to design and solution discussions.
• Contribute to CI/CD processes and version control workflows using Git-based tooling.
• Stay current with emerging front-end technologies and apply them appropriately.
• Depending on experience:
• Lead front-end development on complex projects and define architecture and coding standards.
• Guide development workflows, testing strategies, and release processes.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers and support their technical and consulting development.
• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and solution approaches to stakeholders and clients.
• Influence planning, technical strategy, or account-level delivery decisions. IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 development
• Experience with modern frameworks (React, Vue.js, Next.js)
• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and usability best practices
• Experience with component libraries, design systems, and UI/UX collaboration
• Strong debugging, testing, and performance optimisation skills
• Experience with Git and Git-based workflows
• Understanding of API integration and backend collaboration
• Knowledge of front-end testing (unit, integration, E2E)
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps workflows
• Strong communication and problem-solving ability

Optional depending on level

• Experience leading teams or acting as technical lead
• Experience defining architecture, standards, or best practices
• Understanding of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure)
• Exposure to Node.js or Next.js server-side concepts
• Consulting or client-facing experience

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience building and maintaining design systems or enterprise-scale component libraries
• Exposure to performance monitoring and optimisation tooling (e.g. Lighthouse, Web Vitals)
• Experience working in regulated or high-assurance environments (e.g. Public Sector, Financial Services)
• Familiarity with server-side rendering and edge delivery patterns (e.g. Next.js, SSR, static optimisation)
• Experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary, client-facing delivery teams, including participation in workshops or discovery phases

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company.

They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers.

The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you-supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Benefits

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).