React Full Stack Developer

Public Sector Resourcing; Exeter; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A public service organization in Exeter is seeking a React Full Stack Developer to enhance digital platforms. In this role, you will contribute to building modern web applications, ensuring their robustness and scalability in an Agile environment. Candidates should have extensive experience with React, TypeScript, and AWS services. SC Clearance is essential, and preference may be given to those holding active clearance. This role is UK-based only, ensuring compliance with public sector regulations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building modern web applications using React and maintaining large-scale React codebases.
• Proficient in TypeScript for clear, typed maintainable code.
• Hands-on AWS experience, using tools such as Lambda, EC2, S3, or CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support the production services you build.
• Build and maintain large-scale React applications following best practices.
• Explain architecture and design decisions confidently to colleagues.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

Agile methodologies

Job description

About the Role

Join the Met Office as a React Full Stack Developer and help deliver critical upgrades to our digital platforms. You'll work on modern web applications, ensuring robustness, scalability, and security in a fast paced Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support the production services you build.
• Build and maintain large-scale React applications following best practices.
• Write clean, secure, test-driven code in TypeScript and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Deploy, manage and monitor AWS services (Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudWatch).
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand‑ups, retrospectives).
• Lead development work across multiple tasks and guide team members.
• Explain architecture and design decisions confidently to colleagues.
• Take responsibility for code and services in production, including incident management.
• Improve system robustness, resilience and stability through fault handling, performance tuning and automated testing.

Essential

• React, TypeScript, JavaScript.
• Strong experience building modern web applications using React and maintaining large-scale React codebases.
• Proficient in TypeScript for clear, typed maintainable code.
• Hands‑on AWS experience, using tools such as Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudWatch or similar.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript, including ES6+ features, asynchronous programming and writing testable, maintainable code.
• Agile delivery experience.
• Strong understanding of system architecture and production support.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short‑term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Desirable

• Angular
• Python

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Commitment

The Met Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex‑military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: "This role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".