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 £496/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
– Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical
– 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.