Senior Front-End Developer

Government Recruitment Service; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to lead the development of reusable components and advocate for best practices. The role involves mentoring colleagues and ensuring adherence to accessibility standards across DWP services. Candidates should possess strong web development skills and experience in software product design at scale. The successful applicant will collaborate with various teams and drive consistency and quality in deliverables.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the design and build of software products at scale.
• Leadership in promoting technical direction and development of reusable patterns.
• Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues in front-end techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and development of reusable patterns and components.
• Ensure design system team adheres to WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate front-end and back-end services.

Skills

Expert knowledge in front-end development

Effective communication skills

Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards

Ability to self-organize and define priorities

Experience with modern web development stacks

Job description

Are you an advocate and an expert Front-End Developer?

Capable of leading the development of products that help other teams design and deliver services?

We’re recruiting senior Front-End Developers to be part of both our amazing team(s) and community.

The 2022-25 DWP Digital Strategy "Our Digital Future" identified the Design System as a key product in delivering our goals. The DWP Design System helps to deliver consistent customer and colleague experiences faster and with less rework, by codifying design standards into reusable interface patterns.

We are looking for passionate experts in front-end development to support and lead the build across many of our front-end systems. The role extends beyond expert technical knowledge to encompass effective communication and advocacy, driving adoption of best practice design.

As a Senior Front-End Developer, you will share your expert knowledge and experience with the team to lead delivery and provide front-end leadership.

Our Senior Front-end Developers are experts in front-end development, with proven experience in the design and build of software products at scale. You will:

• Lead and promote the technical direction and development of reusable patterns and components.
• Release, maintain and support the deployment of products and code packages.
• Ensure we developer accessible user interfaces for DWP services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.
• Input into, promote and ensure design standardisation processes.
• Coach and mentor colleagues.
• Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
• Be an enabler for multiple teams, driving consistency, standards, pace and quality, resolving technical blockers, and promoting re-use and collaboration through the wider communities.
• Engage with and contribute to the engineering and user-centred design communities.
• Have an excellent ability to self-organise and define priorities.
• Use modern tooling and development techniques to write and share test-driven code iteratively delivering.
• Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back-end services to ensure that they are built to the same high standards.
• Have strong knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines.

• Responsible for ensuring the design system team are adhering to WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
• Responsible for driving the building, maintaining and sharing of reusable libraries of Front-end code. Responsible for taking a leading role contributing to cross-government code libraries.
• Accountable for Identifying and understanding technical and business constraints, and ensuring that Front-End Developers works within them whilst contributing back to and driving change within existing government frameworks.

As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.