Public Sector Full‑Stack Dev – React/Node, Hybrid Bristol

JACOBS; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Holiday Buy/Sell

Wellbeing Support

Pension Scheme

Job summary

Jacobs is hiring experienced Software Developers to design and deliver websites and services built to GDS and GOV.UK standards. You will work in multidisciplinary agile teams delivering accessible, secure, and scalable digital platforms used at national scale.

Join a hybrid, full‑time role in Bristol, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, code quality, and observability. Expect collaboration with designers and analysts to support content‑led user journeys and content discovery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering production‑grade digital services in agile teams.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience with modern front end frameworks.
• Experience building secure, scalable web applications with accessible UIs.

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 on user journeys.
• Enhance search functionality for content discovery.
• Support authentication and SSO integrations.
• Ensure security, performance, scalability and accessibility requirements.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments and monitoring.
• Raise engineering standards through code quality and mentoring.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React/Next.js

HTML/CSS

Front-end testing

Node.js/Express

APIs authentication/authorization

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud/containers

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Grafana

Express.js

Job description

Jacobs is hiring experienced Software Developers to design and deliver websites and services built to GDS and GOV.UK standards. You will work in multidisciplinary agile teams delivering accessible, secure, and scalable digital platforms used at national scale.

Join a hybrid, full‑time role in Bristol, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, code quality, and observability. Expect collaboration with designers and analysts to support content‑led user journeys and content discovery.