React Full Stack Developer

Public Sector Resourcing CWS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent governmental organization is seeking a React Full Stack Developer for a 6-month contract in a hybrid setup. The role involves building and maintaining large-scale React applications while ensuring code quality and system stability. Essential qualifications include expertise in React, TypeScript, and AWS services. Applicants must be willing to undergo SC clearance checks. This is an exciting opportunity for those eager to contribute to critical upgrades in a fast-paced Agile environment.

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, CloudWatch.

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.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS services

Agile delivery

System architecture

Job description

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a React Full Stack Developer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based Hybrid with occasional travel to Exeter (around twice per month).

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

As a React Full Stack Developer your main responsibilities will be to :

• 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 Qualifications

• 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.

Desirable Qualifications

• Angular
• Python

Security Clearance

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.

Legal and Diversity Statements

Disability Confident – The Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

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.

This role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

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'.