Senior Frontend & Node.js Developer

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Closing Date: Sunday 22nd January 2023

Frontend development is a growing role within government, and it’s a vital one, as the work is focused on the parts of government that citizens interact with most often. The services we work on in the public sector are essential.

As a Senior Developer you will be working with modern technologies in cloud -based environments with other skilled people, collaborating and making things work for our end users, in some cases that’s the public and in others our own people who work at the Borders, Immigration or protecting the public.

We develop over 560 services which have millions of users worldwide.

What will you be doing as a Senior Developer at Home Office?

You will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.

You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.

The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

Your key areas of impact

• delivering secure, reliable and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed

• evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations

• defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance

• evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment

• helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services
  

Who you are

You'll be a developer who is confident developing applications, passionate about making a difference and want to be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, and prototyping to execution, and shipping whilst having experience with:

• NodeJS as a server for web applications

• HTML and CSS, including CSS pre-processors and responsive web app layout

• one or more frontend Frameworks (eg. React, Angular, Vue.js)

• JavaScript including DOM manipulation

• package managers (npm, yarn)

• unit testing and TDD, and automated frontend (unit/component) testing

• leading and mentoring others in frontend architecture, technology choices, code quality, security, CI/CD

Some of the benefits our developers love 💜

• one of the higher starting salaries across the Civil Service

• a Civil Service pension with employer contribution rates of between 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary

• 25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday, rising further with service

• flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing

• training and development opportunities tailored to your role

• an in-year bonus scheme

• a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

• season ticket loans and rental deposit loans

• cycle to work and payroll giving

• employee discounts - including a huge number of retailers (via the Edenred platform), Microsoft Home Use programme and gym membership

• a variety of staff recognition schemes including thank you vouchers

• health and wellbeing initiatives including monthly mindfulness sessions

• staff support networks

• maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid

• maternity and adoption support leave (paternity leave) of 2 weeks full pay

• up to 5 days paid leave for volunteering

• study leave and support for studying for a qualification or other accredited development relevant to your role