Front-End Engineer – Government Design System

scrumconnect ltd; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Front End Developer who specialises in design systems to build and maintain a government design system. You will create accessible, reusable components and drive adoption through documentation and hands-on support. This is a Front End specialist role with emphasis on accessibility, performance and DX.

Location: UK-based, with some travel to Taunton. Contract type: Permanent, remediating to WCAG 2.2 AA using modern front-end tools and pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building or maintaining government design systems or component libraries.
• Strong experience auditing.
• Fluent English and clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a government-standard component library and design system.
• Audit and remediate components to WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Develop Front End components in the design system's stack, packaged and versioned for reuse.
• Collaborate with designers using Figma Dev Mode/Make to turn designs into production components.
• Support change, communications and adoption activity for design system rollout across delivery teams.
• Write and maintain automated tests with component testing through Storybook and Chromatic.
• Maintain automated build, test and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and YAML.
• Maintain documentation sites and release notes, including migration guides for breaking changes.

Skills

Design systems

Component libraries

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

React

Angular

Accessibility

Auditing

Tools

Storybook

npm packaging

Azure DevOps

YAML pipelines

Figma Dev Mode

Figma Make

DAST tooling

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Front End Developer who specialises in design systems to build and maintain a government design system. You will create accessible, reusable components and drive adoption through documentation and hands-on support. This is a Front End specialist role with emphasis on accessibility, performance and DX.

Location: UK-based, with some travel to Taunton. Contract type: Permanent, remediating to WCAG 2.2 AA using modern front-end tools and pipelines.