Role: Senior Front-End Developer REF 93480

Contract Length: 12 months

Location: Hybrid/Leeds or Newcastle - Must be able to work 3 days a week in office

IR35: Inside

Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate

Security Clearance: BPSS

Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Front-End Developer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR FRONT-END DEVELOPER

• 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 client 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, CI and deployment of components.
• Delivery end to end testing using TDD and BDD.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR FRONT-END DEVELOPER

• 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 (WCAG).
• 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.

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Armed Forces Covenant

The client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.