Senior Front-End Developer

DWP Digital; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 57,946 - 68,205; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Generous holiday package

Volunteering opportunities

Professional development

Interest-free loans for transport

Job summary

A major government digital agency is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to lead the development of high-quality, accessible digital services used by millions. This role involves shaping coding standards, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to a collaborative engineering culture. The position offers up to £80,664 in salary, a comprehensive benefits package including a generous pension, flexible working options, and the opportunity to make a significant impact in public service.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
• Ability to promote best practices and ensure code quality.
• Experience in leading teams and fostering a positive engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead front-end development and influence coding practices.
• Define and promote design standards and reusable components.
• Support and mentor colleagues in technical skills.

Skills

Experience with large-scale systems

Designing accessible user interfaces

Leading front-end development

Building reusable components

Integrating front-end with back-end systems

Coaching and mentoring developers

Job description

Pay of up to £80,664, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a Senior Front-End Developer you'll join our Engineering community and play a key role in shaping and delivering front‑end solutions used across DWP Digital. You'll be part of teams responsible for building and maintaining reusable patterns, components and libraries that underpin digital services at national scale.

This is a senior role with real influence. You'll lead front end development across multiple products, promote best practice and act as an advocate for accessibility, usability and quality. Your work will directly support teams across DWP to design and deliver services more consistently and to a higher standard.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience working on large‑scale, enterprise‑level systems, with an understanding of the technical and organisational constraints that come with them
• Strong experience designing and delivering accessible user interfaces, with a deep understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 AA standards and how to apply them in practice
• Experience leading the technical direction of front‑end work, setting standards, promoting best practice, and ensuring consistency and quality across teams
• Confidence building and maintaining reusable components, patterns and libraries, and encouraging their adoption across multiple products
• Experience integrating front‑end solutions with back‑end systems, and choosing appropriate technologies and approaches
• Strong experience leading, coaching and mentoring developers, helping others improve their skills and creating a positive engineering culture

You and your role

As a Senior Front-End Developer, you'll be a trusted and empowered technical leader within DWP Digital. You'll shape how front‑end development is done across our organisation, working on products and platforms that allow our teams to design and deliver consistent, reusable and accessible services. You'll help us develop products and services that work better for millions of people and over 100,000 colleagues and agents.

A key part of your role will be leading the development and evolution of reusable front‑end patterns and components. You'll help define standards, promote design system adoption, and ensure that code is robust, accessible and easy for teams to use and build upon. You'll also support the release, maintenance and deployment of products and code packages used widely across DWP.

You'll be hands‑on, but we also need your leadership skills. You'll coach and mentor colleagues, help grow capability across teams, and contribute to engineering and user‑centred design communities. You'll act as an enabler for multiple teams, resolving technical blockers, promoting collaboration and helping teams deliver at pace without compromising quality.

This is a role that will suit anyone who enjoys working at scale, influencing how things are done, and balancing deep technical expertise with leadership and advocacy. If you care about building accessible, high‑quality digital services and want to leave a lasting impact across government, then apply today.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer pay up to £80,664. That's £57,946 - £68,205 salary plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 subject to our assessment of your capability at interview.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,759 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest‑free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture:

• DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards
• Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024
• Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025
• Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards

Process

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a technical coding test, followed by a single stage interview online.

Click APPLY for more information and to start your application.