We aren’t looking for a ‘Rock Star’ or a ‘Ninja’. We aren’t looking for a ‘Super Star Developer’ either. We want a team player; someone who is tenacious about getting things done as part of a team in an environment that expects creativity and quality delivery. Be a rebel but be part of our rebel alliance.

Skills and experience

Essential

·         Layout and presentation skills in HTML, CSS and related technologies

·         Expertise in JavaScript with a minimum of 5 years’ experience – ES6; Babel JS

·         Experience of modern web frameworks and libraries, in particular React JS

·         Single Page Applications (SPA) – Create React App / Next JS / Gatsby; React Router / Reach Router; Redux & Redux-Saga

·         Unit Testing – Jest; React Testing Library / Enzyme; Snapshot Testing

·         Web Accessibility – WCAG; Axe

·         Web application user interface design skills and experience

·         A thorough understanding of web concepts: HTTP, REST, web services, etc

·         Experience working on Agile projects, particularly Kanban or Scrum

·         Tenacious technical problem solver

·         Good communicator

·         Demonstrable experience of working with version control, build tools, code-quality and testing tools.

Desirable

·         Experience with Government Digital Service (GDS)

·         Experience with Design Systems – Storybook; Styled Components / Emotion

·         Experience of test automation – Cypress; Puppeteer

·         Experience in any of the following is useful: Typescript; ESLint; Standard JS / Prettier; JSON Schema; Sketch

·         Experience of developing for deployment to the public cloud (e.g. AWS, AWS Amplify, Azure, etc.)

·         Experience using the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)

·         Working knowledge of best practices: version control, unit testing, CI and documentation

·         Comfortable using the command line to support application development and deployment - GIT; Bash scripts

·         Experience with developing and deploying with container technologies, in particular Docker.

Responsibilities

·         Develop solutions that meet the needs of users by considering the user at every step of the delivery process; from understanding the need to designing the solution and delivery

·         Work as an integral member of a small, remote team

·         Agree and deliver on sprint commitments

·         Design and implements secure software components

·         Participate in the iterative user needs analysis and design phases

·         Ensure that code is well-tested in development and to take part in systems integration testing where required, to meet the agreed level of quality (Jest)

·         Participate in peer review processes

·         Supporting the team through the full release cycle

·         Participation in development support for the resolution of bugs, provision of hot fixes and support of the production system as required by application operations

·         To follow and enhance the organisation’s software engineering practices and processes.

Desired skills

CSS

 

JavaScript

 

React