Software Engineer, UI Developer

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading job board is seeking a Software Engineer, UI Developer in Edinburgh. The ideal candidate will build innovative, customer-centric solutions using modern JavaScript frameworks. This role requires extensive experience in software design and collaborative platforms to enhance the engineering capability. The position offers a mix of remote and office work, ensuring a balanced approach to your career development.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering and design.
• Strong understanding of UI development frameworks.
• Experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain customer-centric software solutions.
• Produce high-quality software rapidly.
• Collaborate to optimize software engineering capabilities.

Skills

Development tools experience

UI development

JavaScript frameworks knowledge

Building web applications

Analytical problem-solving skills

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer, UI Developer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from an advertised office or hub minimum two days per week

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll also need:

• Extensive experience with development and testing tools, including bug tracking systems like Jira, and collaborative platforms such as Confluence wikis
• Experience in primary skill set in UI development, with strong experience in modern JavaScript frameworks such as React.js or Angular, and a solid understanding of TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experience in building responsive, accessible, and high-performance web applications that integrate with backend microservices and APIs
• Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and state management tools such as Redux, Context API to ensure consistency and scalability across the UI
• Exposure to automated UI testing frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright, and a strong focus on testability, code quality, and user experience
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance