Role: Front End Developer

Day Rate: £550 -£600

Location: London (Remote during Covid - 19)

IR35: INSIDE IR35

Contract Length: 6 months initially

Description:

Assist and guide other team members where necessary as you design, create and improve new and existing products, platforms and transactions across the organisation. To lead the development of new IT solutions and initiatives. Implement APIs for internal and external use. Build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. Have knowledge of tools and techniques used within the wider team, both Developers and Non-Developers. Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms. Have experience building server-side web applications and have detailed knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

Key Skills:

You will:

Have expert knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript (ES6), CSS and Sass (SCSS).
- Have expert knowledge of cross-browser considerations.
- Have expert knowledge of web accessibility and semantic HTML
- Have expert knowledge of Responsive Web Design.
- Have experience with BDD/TDD using toolsets such as Jasmine and Jest
- Have knowledge of client side build tools: webpack, grunt, gulp or similar
- Have knowledge of UX and usability.
- Have familiarity with the GDS Design System and GOV.UK standards
- Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
- Have knowledge of tools and techniques used within the wider team, both developers and non-developers.
- Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Have proven experience maintaining a large and dynamic code base.
- Have working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or macOS.
- Have knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git.
- Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
- Have experience of building high-traffic websites.
- Understand web architecture.
-Have an understanding of Mustache templates, Java and Node.js.

It would also be desirable to:

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

If you are interested, please reply and I will be in touch ASAP

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