Frontend Developer - Must Have Active SC - 6+ Months - Remote

Rate: £450 (Outside IR35)
Duration: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Remote

Prior experience of building GDS compliant services including accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA standards is sought. Our technology stack includes NextJS running on Kubernetes in AWS so relevant experience in that is of benefit. Other areas of the programme use Python and Java/SpringBoot so fluency or familiarity with either of these would be of additional benefit.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle, including daily stand-ups, estimation, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
• Develop clean, maintainable and efficient software with high levels of unit testing and automated integration (browser based) testing.
• Contributing to peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Collaborate with the UCD design team, Business Analysts, Performance Analysts and development and Quality Assurance colleagues to understand and deliver assigned tasks.
• Adhere to technical development standards and best practices.
• Ask for help when needed and collaborate with team members to resolve issues impacting delivery within your team.

Useful skills relevant to this position:

• A good understanding of functional programming principles and TDD.
• Experience with relational (Postgres) and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with REST API patterns and OpenAPI specifications.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform.
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions (pipelines).
• Experience with DevOps ways of working.