Senior Frontend Developer

Overview

Specialist role Developer

Summary of the work 

UKTI Digital has been tasked to investigate and build a number of services, both internal and external facing, and is actively looking to expand its already passionate and strong technical team and requires a senior frontend developer experienced in user research-driven development model.

Latest start date 18/07/2016

Expected contract length 6 months with an option to extend quarter on quarter at the Authority's sole discretion.

Region London

Organisation the work is for UK Trade & Investment

About the work

Who the specialist will work with 

 The Frontend Developer will work as part of an agile team and is expected to work with User Researcher, User Experience Designer, Backend Developer, Technical Architect, WebOps, Delivery Manager, Product Manager and Users. Specialist is also expected to liaise with other Frontend Developers within UKTI to share tools and knowledge where needed.

What the specialist will work on Front-end development on UKTI web service

Work setup

Address where the work will take place UK Trade & Investment, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET

Working arrangements Work will be on-site in London (Mon-Fri).

Security clearance BPSS is required for all personnel

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience 

• Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript (including ES6)
• Experience in building mobile first websites
• Worked with user research to understand requirements
• Used TDD or BDD and has experience with Mocha/Jasmine/Cucumber/Webdriver
• Sass
• Gulp/Babel/Webpack
• Node/Express
• Templating language such as Nunjucks or Handlebars
• REST

Nice-to-have skills and experience 

• Knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React JS and Angular
• Python/Django
• Docker

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.