Front end developer

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Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Frontend Developer to join our UK Digital & Cloud Practice. Our Digital Practice is expanding rapidly and there will be an opportunity for you to achieve medium and long-term career goals. As well as fantastic growth opportunities there is the opportunity to work on some really challenging and interesting, large scale transformational and migration projects within both public and private sector.

As a Senior Front End Developer, you'll collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Technical Architects, UX/UI Designers and other team members to understand business requirements and drive the solution design and development of our digital products. Your role involves ensuring that the code aligns with these requirements and adheres to our architectural and front-end coding standards. Performance optimisation is key, and you'll employ best practices to enhance our applications. Additionally, you'll stay proactive by suggesting upgrades and updates to maintain modern security standards and adhere to evolving best practices in development. Your contributions extend beyond individual projects; you'll help enrich our shared component libraries by crafting modular and reusable components. Furthermore, as a valued member of our team, you'll provide mentorship to junior members and actively share your expertise across the wider team.

• Work collaboratively with product owners, business analysts, technical architects, UX/UI designers, and other team members to understand business requirements and drive the solution design and development of our digital products.
• Ensure code meets the requirements and is in accordance with our architectural and front-end coding standards and patterns.
• Optimising applications using best practices for performance.
• Propose any upgrades and updates necessary for keeping up with modern security and the development of best practices.
• Contribute to our shared component libraries and build modular and reusable components and libraries.
• Provide mentorship for more junior members of the team and share knowledge of your skillsets out to the wider team
  
  

This role involves working for government clients so all candidates need to either hold SC Clearance or be SC Eligible

Qualifications

• You will have an extensive background in front-end development with significant experience working with React
• Experience in Redux or Zustand
• Experience in React Query
• Experienced with Jest for Unit Testing
• Experience in Node.js
• Experience with TypeScript desirable
• Experience with Nest.js or Express.js desirable
• Should be able to demonstrate a strong core front-end skillset of HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript
• Appetite to work with emerging AI technologies
• SC Eligible