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 £493/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
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:
- 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
- Programming Best Practices (i.e. Clean Code, SOLID, etc.)
- Are familiar with good continuous integration and continuous delivery principles
- Experience of microservice design patterns
- 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.