Frontend Developer (SFIA 3)

Zaizi is looking for a Front End Developer with solid technology skills who are also passionate about improving outcomes and the user experience. You will be confident in your own skills with a proven track record of delivering high quality software in demanding environments. You will be passionate about new technologies and keen to share it across the organisation.

Our work culture is inclusive modern friendly and democratic. We look for bright positive-thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do if that sounds like you youll fit right in!

Role Objectives:

• Develop software to meet user needs
• Follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• Write clean secure and well-tested code
• Coach and mentor junior colleagues
• Engage with other members in an Agile team to improve software and outcomes

Ways of working:

• Demonstrable experience working in Agile teams
• Demonstrable experience working on product development environments based on observation experimentation and user research
• Demonstrable experience working in multi-disciplinary/DevOps teams which include product owner/manager UX designers UX researchers Developers Platform engineers etc
• Demonstrable experience working on continuous integration environments

Requirements

Coding and testing:

• Strong REACT experience
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Testing experience-(Unit testing/End to End testing - e.g Jest/NightwatchJS etc)
• Experience with AA Standard accessibility
• Experience with restful APIs
• Experience developing for all major currently used browsers e.g Chrome Edge etc.
• Strong performance optimisation awareness

Nice to have skills:

• Working with UK Government or public sector
• AWS
• Building component libraries
• Appreciation of security principals
• Demonstration of scalability and reusability
• An appreciation for UX

You dont meet all the requirements

Studies show that women and black Asian and minority ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So if youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with the job description wed love you to still apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role or another role here at Zaizi.

We strongly encourage applicants from people of colour the LGBTQ community people with disabilities neurodivergent people parents carers and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If theres anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation please let us know.

SC Clearance:

Zaizi works with UK Central Government departments on a range of projects. To be able to work on our customer projects employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers. Due to this restriction we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5 years continuously.

34000 - 65000

25 days paid holiday plus bank holidays

BUPA medical insurance
Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution
Group Life Assurance
Cyclescheme
5 days a year for approved Training
WFH equipment allowance
Buy / Sell Holiday
2 days paid volunteering days

Other benefits:
Flexible working
Work on exciting projects - make a difference
Empowered to make decisions
Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly

For further information contact

Nat Hinds-Head of Talent:

Kayla Kirby-Talent Acquisition Specialist: