Senior Frontend Developer – Digital Archiving Access Team

The National Archives, UK; London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Archives’ Digital Archiving team invites you to build and run services that open government and court records for everyone. Our Access to Digital Records products promote transparency and open justice while setting best practice for access to digital records.

You will own frontend features for AYR and FCL, drive technical direction, mentor colleagues, and help ensure secure, robust services that scale with demand in a fast-changing digital preservation landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering frontend features for complex government-style applications.
• Strong focus on code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience mentoring developers and leading small teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver frontend features across AYR and FCL—set technical direction, write high quality code, and work with external suppliers when needed.
• Operate production services—monitor, troubleshoot, and improve resilience, robustness and stability.
• Coach and mentor developers; line manage a junior colleague.
• Champion secure engineering and consistent standards; contribute to code reviews and quality practices.
• Stay curious and share—engage with the wider dev community, evaluate new technologies, and help colleagues keep up with digital preservation developments.

Skills

Frontend development

Code quality

Mentoring

Secure engineering

Code reviews

Job description

Join The National Archives’ Digital Archiving team to build and run services that open government and court records for everyone. Our Access to Digital Records products increase transparency and support open justice, while setting best practice for access to digital records.

What you’ll work on:

• Access Your Records (AYR) – secure, self service access for government departments to born digital records transferred to The National Archives (currently in private Beta).
• Find Case Law (FCL) – the public site for judgments and tribunal decisions, including data feeds under an innovative licensing approach—an important step towards open justice.

What you’ll do:

• Own and deliver frontend features across AYR and FCL—set technical direction, write high quality code, and work with external suppliers when needed.
• Operate production services—monitor, troubleshoot, and improve resilience, robustness and stability.
• Coach and mentor developers; line manage a junior colleague.
• Champion secure engineering and consistent standards; contribute to code reviews and quality practices.
• Stay curious and share—engage with the wider dev community, evaluate new technologies, and help colleagues keep up with digital preservation developments.

Contract type: Permanent

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