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Senior Front-end Developer

Job details
Posting date: 30 June 2025
Salary: £55,557 to £73,350 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 06 July 2025
Location: M2 3LR
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 411264/2

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Summary

Within Working Age Services Digital, we are responsible for a number of existing services which support the core of society and is the Department’s highest profile benefit service, Universal Credit.

We are looking for outstanding Senior Front-end Developers who can make a positive impact and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK. 

Let’s be clear about the impact of your work – the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy – becoming more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, providing coherent shared capabilities to underpin the way we operate, and transforming some of our service’s monolithic architectures into microservices.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

Our Senior Front-end Developers are experts in front-end development, with proven experience in the design and build user interfaces at scale. You will:

  • Lead and promote the technical direction and development of reusable patterns and components.
  • Have strong knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines. Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back-end services to ensure that they are built to the same high standards.
  • Ensure we develop accessible user interfaces for DWP services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.
  • Use modern tooling and development techniques to write and share test-driven code iteratively delivering.
  • Input into, promote and ensure design standardisation processes.
  • Release, maintain and support the deployment of products and code packages.
  • Coach, mentor and line manage colleagues.
  • Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
  • Be an enabler for multiple teams, driving consistency, standards, pace and quality, resolving technical blockers, and promoting re-use and collaboration through the wider communities.
  • Engage with and contribute to the engineering and user-centred design communities.
  • Have an excellent ability to self-organise and define priorities.
  • Docker, Continuous Integration (CI) and deployment of components.
  • Delivery end to end testing using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).

As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.

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