Front End Developer
| Posting date: | 06 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £53,400 to £85,600 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National £53,400 - £75,328 London £58,800 - £85,600. Offers above the band minimum are subject to our assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Salaries over the band minimum will be paid as a non-pensionable allowance. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 355812/2 |
Summary
The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) - is an AI for public good programme which exists to harness the opportunities presented by AI to improve the lives of citizens. It focuses on priority projects across the whole of public services. We are a technical team, focussed on building things and learning quickly what works.
Building on the work of No10 Data Science Team (10DS) and other leading technology teams across the civil service, i.AI will experiment and prove what is possible. It was recently announced that i.AI will expand a further 40 roles to build a scale up function, which will take successful incubated projects into production.
You can see more about our work on ai.gov.uk
About the role
This is a radical innovation team, and we hire team members who are collaborative, energetic, and are motivated to “get stuff done”, as well as being optimistic big picture thinkers. This role is perfect for somebody looking to operate in a start-up environment.
Alongside AI engineering, software engineering is the core technical discipline in the Incubator. Whilst AI Engineers focus on the implementation and evaluation of machine learning and LLM technology, software engineers, including front end developers, are responsible for integrating that technology into working software that delights users and delivers against well-defined metrics.
Key responsibilities will include:
A front end developer at i.AI forms part of a delivery team, collaborating with researchers, designers, software developers and AI engineers to deliver excellent services. Projects at the incubator take different forms, from quick prototypes to fully-fledged production services and you will need to be comfortable with both those approaches.
You will be responsible for:
- Delivering clean, semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript to support high-quality, accessible user experiences.
- Creating robust frontends that benefit from progressive enhancement and work across a range of devices.
- Using your experience working with and without frontend frameworks to help the team make good decisions about which technologies to adopt.
- Sharing your knowledge via activities like pair programming.
- Advocating for coding standards and good practices, especially for JavaScript.
- Using CSS methodologies such as preprocessors (eg SCSS) and naming conventions (e.g. BEM).
- Working with design systems such as the GOV.UK Design System.
- Applying knowledge of web application security and accessibility standards (OWASP, WCAG).
- Supporting the effective management and performance of the team by promoting diversity, inclusion, regular, honest and constructive feedback, and supporting continuous improvement.