Senior Front End Developer

On behalf of DWP we are looking for a Senior Front End Developer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract. Hybrid working with 2 days per week required in Manchester.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

. Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
. Increase saving for, and security in later life
. Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
. Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
. Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

We are looking for an outstanding Front End Developer who can make a positive impact and want to contribute to the most demanding and exciting new digital service for the UK Government. Let's be clear about the impact of your work - better digital services in government will change the face of public services and have the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

You will have outstanding skills and be ready to quickly get to work within an agile multi-disciplinary team of Developers, Designers, and Analysts focused on the Department for Work and Pensions' flagship welfare reform programme.

Essential:

. Knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS and Sass.
. Knowledge of cross-browser considerations.
. Knowledge of Responsive Web Design.
. Knowledge of web accessibility and WCAG.
. Knowledge of UX and usability.
. Experience of building high-traffic websites.
. Understanding of web architecture.
. Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
. Proven experience of maintaining a large and dynamic code base.

Desirable:

. Knowledge of client side build tools: grunt, gulp or similar.
. Skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
. Working knowledge of Mustache templates, Java 7 and Node.js.
. Experience with test driven development using toolsets such as Mocha and Jasmine.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".