Hybrid Front-End Developer for Data-Driven Web Apps

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI); Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangement

Job summary

Europe PMC's Literature Services team seeks a front-end developer to translate user needs and designs into robust, accessible web interfaces. You will build reusable components and contribute to a consistent design system across the service, across literature search, article pages and research workflows.

Working closely with UX, product colleagues and back-end developers, you will integrate front-end applications with REST APIs, optimise performance and ensure accessibility and usability.

Qualifications

• Must have strong knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and modern web development standards.
• Experience with responsive, cross-browser front-end applications using a modern framework (React or Vue).
• Experience building reusable front-end components and maintaining front-end architectures.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing and maintaining responsive, accessible web interfaces for Europe PMC.
• Building reusable front-end components and contributing to a consistent design system across the service.
• Translating UX designs and user requirements into production-quality interfaces.
• Developing interfaces for data-rich functionality (literature search, article pages, workflows).
• Integrating front-end apps with REST APIs and JSON data.
• Optimising front-end performance and asset delivery.
• Developing automated tests and contributing to CI/CD practices.
• Ensuring accessibility, usability and web standards.

Skills

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Accessibility & Usability

Cross-functional collaboration

Front-end performance optimization

Web development best practices

Tools

React

Vue

Git

REST APIs

Job description

Europe PMC's Literature Services team seeks a front-end developer to translate user needs and designs into robust, accessible web interfaces. You will build reusable components and contribute to a consistent design system across the service, across literature search, article pages and research workflows.

Working closely with UX, product colleagues and back-end developers, you will integrate front-end applications with REST APIs, optimise performance and ensure accessibility and usability.