Senior Frontend Developer

Overview

Specialist role Developer

Summary of the work 

Senior Front End Developer required to work with existing team of PHP Zend Framework2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that the business critical application (Sirius - a custom-built, open source case management system) is iterated and improved via user first principles

Latest start date August 2016

Expected contract length 12 month initial contract length with the option for extension

Region East Midlands

Organisation the work is for Office of the Public Guardian

About the work

Who the specialist will work with 

Developer is expected to work with Product Manager, WebOps team, Back-end Developers, User Researcher and UX Designer

What the specialist will work on 

1. Do the front-end development work on the 'SIRIUS' case management system
2. Maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that the the business critical application (Sirius - a custom-built, open source case management system hosted on AWS) is iterated and improved via user first principles
   

Work setup

Address where the work will take place Expected to work from Embankment House, Nottingham

Working arrangements Expected to work onsite at least 3 days a week, with the option to work remotely for 2 days a week.

Security clearance Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland. National Security Clearance may also be required once onsite

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience 

• Write well-structured HTML/Javascript/CSS that is semantically correct.
• Excellent knowledge of AngularJS and Protractor
• Javascript: understand prototypical inheritance and be able to create testable, modular code
• CSS3 with LESS experience
• Working within an agile environment
• WAI accessibility expertise [Level A, AA, AAA]
• Grunt, Gulp or equivalent
• Knowledge of the Git version control system

Nice-to-have skills and experience 

• Good understanding of the GDS design principles and Service Design Manual
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence
• Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins)
• Good Docker knowledge
• Experience of Elasticsearch
• Experience of AWS hosting
• Basic PHP (Zend Framework 2) with experience of PHP Templates, Twig or similar.
• BDD and automated user acceptance testing using tools such as Gherkin/Cucumber, Behat and Webdriver
• Worked with a server based MVC framework
• Able to manipulate images in an image editor such as Photoshop or Pixelmator
• Responsive CSS, able to work across a wide range of devices and browsers
• User research and experience of co-locating with users and acting on feedback
• Some content design experience

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.