Front End Developer - #1728825

Pay up to £50,296, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and adaptable Front End Developer who will be working in a service team helping DWP deliver better Health & Disability services for citizens and agents.

Our teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, the problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team to translate concepts into production-ready, user-centred digital services.
• Demonstrable experience in building accessible and performant user interfaces across a range of devices and browsers.
• Proficiency in using modern development tools and techniques, with a strong focus on writing test-driven code. Experience of open-source technologies including HTML, CSS, client and server side JavaScript, Typescript and other modern front-end templating frameworks.
• Experience integrating front-end solutions with back-end services, working collaboratively within cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality services.
• A thorough understanding of service design principles, with the ability to ensure consistency with established design and implementation standards. The ability to promote standards as well as create a coaching and mentoring culture.
• Demonstrable expertise in Front-end development of large scale systems dealing with high numbers of users, transactions and business processes.
  
  

You and your role

Our Front End Developers work on agile, multi-disciplinary teams designing and building user-centred services. In this role you will be building services that enable people with disabilities and health conditions to access work, support, and benefits more easily.

You'll help us to integrate into the back end of services, ensuring that they are built and tested to a high standard.

You will turn agreed designs into robust and accessible user interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Our aim is to build accessible services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.

We use modern tooling and development techniques to write test-driven code. And ensure that the design and implementation of services is consistent with standards and our design system.

As part of the role, you'll be based in your preferred location but you may be required to travel to our other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful. This travel counts as working time, and you will incur no costs.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and sometime collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer pay of up to £50,296.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £12,345 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
  
  

Process

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages:

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
• Interview: a single stage interview online.
  
  

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.