Senior Frontend Developer
| Posting date: | 28 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: National Roles: £60,300 min - £66,330 max, London Roles: £64,300 min - 70,730 max. Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £20,100 is available for candidates who de |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 387790/1 |
Summary
You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.
We are hosting an Engineering online recruitment event on 6th February 2025 12:00 - 13:00, where you can find out more about our roles, working for the organisation and how to apply. Register your interest for the online event.
The Senior Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.
You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.
The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.
This role is not suitable for part-time working due to the nature of the role.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
- Core Skills: React.js, JavaScript, Typescript, Vue or Angular, Node.js, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SASS
- Others: Git, Responsive Design, Accessibility, REST, Jest, Cypress, Webpack, ESLint, Secure Application Development
- Data: PostgreSQL or other RDBMS
- DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
- Desirable: Familiarity with Python or Java, User experience design
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Delivering secure, reliable and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed.
- Evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations.
- Defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance.
- Evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment.
- Helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services.
Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.
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