Vacancy for Frontend Developer at The National Archives

Digital Preservation Coalition; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Archives seeks a Frontend Developer to join their Digital Services team in London. This full-time role focuses on building accessible digital interfaces and fostering an inclusive digital culture, engaging with communities to enhance skills and digital capability. Flexibility in working arrangements is offered, promoting diversity within the workforce.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic Frontend Developer with excellent coding skills.
• Passion for accessibility and usability.
• Experience working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Build user-centred, open source, accessible digital interfaces.
• Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Represent The National Archives externally and maintain supplier relationships.

Skills

Accessibility

Usability

Frontend Development

Tools

CI

TDD

Job description

• Vacancy for Frontend Developer at The National Archives

Vacancy for Frontend Developer at The National Archives

26 May 2022

London

Full-Time

We are looking for an enthusiastic Frontend Developer with excellent coding skills, a passion for accessibility, usability and progressive enhancement.

Our Digital Services team build and run services used by over 1 million people a month to access more than 30 million record descriptions. This is an especially exciting time as we rethink our digital offer to ensure that all of our audiences can find, access and understand The National Archives’ collections.

You will help us grow our digital capability, skills and culture in an open and collaborative environment, engaging widely with internal and external communities to share your expertise and learn from others.

This mid-level Frontend Developer role is part of a creative, motivated digital team who embrace challenge and look for opportunities to do things differently. Working with colleagues at all levels; you will help shape ideas and build solutions that balance user needs with business goals.

The Frontend Developer role is a full-time post, but requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, always taking into account the operational needs of the Department. A combination of onsite and home working is available, and applicants should be able to travel regularly to our Kew site.

We are committed to continually improving the diversity of our workforce and therefore encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQI+ community, the trans community, those who are neurodiverse, and those with a disability.

As a Frontend Developer at The National Archives you will:

Build user-centred, open source, accessible digital interfaces.

Use modern language features, libraries, tooling and workflows (CI, TDD).

Work collaboratively and in the open as part of a multidisciplinary team, building intuitive, innovative and reusable interfaces.

You will from time to time represent The National Archives externally, and maintain relationships with suppliers to deliver services to agreed standards.