Front End Developer

Front End Developer Home-Based (within the UK)About Us At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation.Since 1869, we’ve been building stronger families, and today, we work with over 60,000 families across more than 190 services. We also support thousands more through national programmes and grants, helping everyone find the tools to overcome challenges and thrive.We are now looking for a Front End Developer to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis, working 37 hours per week.The Benefits- Salary of £43,042 per annum (inclusive of £1,044 market supplement and £480 home working allowance)- An annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions- Flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment- Enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions- Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers- Cycle to work scheme- Investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunitiesThis is the ideal role for a Software Engineer with front-end experience gained with web applications, JavaScript or TypeScript and modern React to advance their career in a meaningful way with our leading, vital charity.As a critical member of our team, you’ll have the chance to innovate, drive your skills forward and build user-facing solutions to be proud of. Your work will directly contribute to the delivery of our services, meaning that you will be making an impact every day.What’s more, we are dedicated to developing our staff and team and will ensure you grow with your role and as technology evolves, making this the right choice for now and the future.The Role As a Front End Developer, you will focus on creating exceptional user experiences across our digital estate.Building web applications for our staff and service users, you will seek to elevate performance to better support our users and enable our teams to provide services that support hundreds of thousands of people across the UK.Specifically, you will create applications that are feature-rich and easy to use and understand, incorporating responsive user interfaces using React/Next.js. You’ll use TypeScript and Tailwind CSS coupled with organisational branding for style, and insights from user analytics and behaviour tracking tools to ensure we are meeting expectations.Additionally, you’ll implement automated UI testing to ensure everything works as it should and delivers the performance we require to meet our obligations.About You To be considered as a Front End Developer, you will need:- Significant experience developing web applications for internal teams and external customers- Proven experience building complex web applications with Next.js- Expertise in JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern React, including Hooks, Context API, Server and Client Components- The ability to implement best practices in usability, accessibility and inclusive designOther organisations may call this role Web Developer, JavaScript Developer, Front End Programmer, UI Developer, Web Application Developer, Applications Developer, or App Developer.The closing date for this role is the 9th November 2025.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel costs if you attend an interview in person.So, if you are ready to advance your career in an engaging and exciting manner as a Front End Developer with Family Action, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.