Contract Full-Stack JavaScript Developer - React & Node
Contract Node.js & React Engineer
6 month contract (extensions likely)
£400 per day - Inside IR35
60% Hybrid - Newcastle, London, Leeds or Blackpool
Opus is working with a leading consultancy delivering high impact services for a UK Government department.
We're looking for a Node.js & React Engineer with Nunjucks experience to help build and evolve accessible, high volume digital systems.
What You'll Be Doing
6 month contract (extensions likely)
£400 per day - Inside IR35
60% Hybrid - Newcastle, London, Leeds or Blackpool
Opus is working with a leading consultancy delivering high impact services for a UK Government department.
We're looking for a Node.js & React Engineer with Nunjucks experience to help build and evolve accessible, high volume digital systems.
What You'll Be Doing
- Building user facing features using React & TypeScript
- Developing Server Side functionality with Node.js
- Working with Nunjucks templating for government service patterns
- Supporting high traffic, transactional systems
- Writing clean, test driven code (TDD/Jest)
- Improving CI/CD pipelines and development automation
- Contributing to ever greening and modernisation
- Ensuring WCAG compliant accessibility
- Collaborating across multiple agile delivery teams
- Strong JavaScript experience (Front End & Back End)
- React with modern Front End practices
- Node.js
- Nunjucks templating experience
- TypeScript
- TDD and automated testing
- CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Jenkins or GitHub Actions)
- Experience delivering large scale digital services
- CASA or GOV.UK Design System experience
- SQL/NoSQL databases
- Redis or similar caching tools
- API & microservices integration
- Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
- Docker/containerisation exposure
- SC eligibility (not mandatory)