React Developer

JR United Kingdom; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the public sector urgently requires a Frontend Developer to assist in maintaining a high-availability system. This role involves resolving incidents, overseeing deployments, and collaborating with cross-functional teams while ensuring compliance with GDS standards. Candidates must be pre-cleared to SC level.

Qualifications

• Pre-cleared to SC level for security clearance.
• Experience in frontend development, specifically with React and Typescript.

Responsibilities

• Handle and resolve tickets, oversee deployment preparation.
• Support and enhance the current system, maintaining stability.
• Design, execute, and validate feature-level and external API tests.

Skills

Docker

REACT

Typescript

Node.JS

GDS Design Kit

StoryBook

Job description

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Location: Hybrid – Croydon (Once Bi-weekly)

IR35 Status: Inside

Industry: Public Sector

Interview Process: 1 Stage, Ms Teams

Clearance: SC / NPPV3

Urgently hiring a Frontend Developer to support development and maintenance of a high availability system in a containerized environment. This client will put you through NPPV3 clearance, as part of onboarding.

Key Responsibilities

• Handle and resolve tickets across incidents, changes and requests in line with GDS standards
• Oversee deployment preparation, including packaging of builds for release into live environment
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and enhancements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, managing requests and troubleshooting issues
• Diagnosing problems by consulting with domain experts to broaden technical understanding
• Maintaining and supporting a legacy system, including its outdated deployment processes
• Support and enhance the current system, ensuring stability and functionality
• Implement updates within a legacy codebase, assuming technical ownership and building deep subject knowledge
• Refresh technical documentation as and when updates are made to the service
• Ensure all modifications undergo peer validation before being merged
• Push all approved code changes to the main project branch
• Design, execute, and pass feature-level and external API tests as appropriate
• Revise API documentation in alignment with functional updates where needed
• Present developed features for review and sign-off during sprint closure
• Share a summary of completed development items with QA at each sprint’s end for review
• Participate in showcasing completed work for validation by Programme leadership, supported by the Delivery Manager where required
• Finalise development tasks by collectively confirming their completion during the team’s Show and Tell review
• Docker
• REACT / Typescript
• GDS Design Kit
• Node.JS
• StoryBook

**PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT PRE-CLEARED TO SC LEVEL**