Full-Stack Software Engineer – Public Sector (Hybrid UK)

Jacobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Holiday buy/sell scheme

Wellbeing support

Family support

Parental support

Fertility support

Enhanced pension scheme

Job summary

Jacobs in Bristol seeks a skilled front-end engineer to design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end features for a public sector platform. You will deliver accessible, performant interfaces with React/Next.js and contribute to secure backend services within a hybrid UK team.

Collaborate with designers, content teams and analysts, enhance search, and support SSO while meeting security and scalability requirements. Join a team committed to quality, and mentoring to raise engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering production‑grade digital services in agile, multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience.
• Experience writing clean, well‑tested, maintainable code.
• Understanding of accessibility, security, and quality in modern web applications.
• Comfortable working in regulated or high‑assurance environments.
• Collaborative, resilient, and pragmatic in problem‑solving approach.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features for a public sector digital platform.
• Deliver accessible, performant user interfaces using modern front‑end technologies.
• Build and integrate secure back‑end services and APIs.
• Collaborate with designers, content teams, and analysts to support content‑led user journeys.
• Enhance search functionality to support effective content discovery.
• Support authentication and Single Sign‑On (SSO) integrations.
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance, scalability, and accessibility requirements.
• Work in line with the GDS Service Manual, supporting iterative, user‑centred delivery.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and service monitoring.
• Raise engineering standards through code quality, best practices, and mentoring.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Next.js

HTML/CSS

Tailwind

Accessibility

Agile teamwork

Problem solving

Tools

Node.js/Express

OpenShift/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Grafana

Testing with Jest

Job description

Jacobs in Bristol seeks a skilled front-end engineer to design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end features for a public sector platform. You will deliver accessible, performant interfaces with React/Next.js and contribute to secure backend services within a hybrid UK team.

Collaborate with designers, content teams and analysts, enhance search, and support SSO while meeting security and scalability requirements. Join a team committed to quality, and mentoring to raise engineering standards.