Senior Front-end Developer - DWP - G7

Location

These roles may be located in one of the following locations; Leeds, London, Manchester and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

About the job

Job 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'.

Job description

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.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

• Lead criterion: Significant demonstrable expertise in front-end development of large-scale systems dealing with high numbers of users, transactions and business processes.
• Detailed working knowledge and extensive experience of open-source technologies including HTML, CSS, client and server-side JavaScript, TypeScriptNode.js and other modern front-end frameworks and templating languages.
• Experience in building accessible compliant user interfaces.
• Proven ability in delivering thorough unit level test coverage using common testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.
• Experience integrating with a wide range of technical systems including database technologies (SQL or NoSQL), caching tools such as Redis and API Microservices, all deploying into cloud-based infrastructure. (AWS or Azure).
• Influential and able to lead front-end activities, set and develop best practice for an agile team and contribute across multiple teams. You will ensure consistency whilst promoting standards as well as creating a coaching and mentoring culture. 

An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criteria stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact akhtar.ali1@dwp.gov.uk.