Frontend Developer (Glasgow)

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Front-End App Developer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £520/day (Outside IR35). This role will be hybrid working with attendance on site when required.

Responsibilities:

- Work across technical teams formed of supplier, contract and permanent resource

- Develop new features to our web applications in a secure way in line with industry best-practices

- Identifying production and non-production design discrepancies and UI defects

- Train and knowledge share with colleagues

- Looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by teams align with the technical direction

- Identify operational improvements and work to ensure a stable service that can be enhanced

- Anticipate and mitigate against project challenges or risks

- Work with service designers, UX specialists and other developers to translate wireframes and mockups into real interfaces.

Essential Skills:

- Technology knowledge – ideally we are looking for someone with experience in as many of the below as possible:

- Experience of modern JavaScript practices and industry standards regarding front-end technologies

- Commercial experience with React, Typescript, NodeJS, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, React Testing Library

- Experience with RESTful APIs

- Experience writing unit and integration tests

- Experience with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), including build and package management tools

- General knowledge - Experience in most or all of the following practices and design patterns:

- Programming Best Practices (i.e. Clean Code, SOLID, etc.)

- Are familiar with good continuous integration and continuous delivery principles

- Experience of microservice design patterns

- Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical

- Translate technical concepts between infrastructure, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all

- Able to speak on behalf of technical and development teams and facilitate the relationships with indirect stakeholders

- Able to share knowledge and mentor (potentially non-technical) colleagues

Desirable Skills:

- Commercial experience in building accessible websites in line with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

- Knowledge of multiple JS frameworks (i.e. React, Angular, Vue)

- Java 8+ commercial experience would be advantageous

- Experience in designing and developing RESTful microservices

- Working experience with MySQL compatible DBs (MySQL, RDS, Aurora, MariaDB)

- Knowledge or working experience in AWS & associated tooling

- Experience with Docker/Bash/Shell Scripting

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.