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.