Senior Front-End Developer

Job summary

This role qualifies for a £5000 per annum recruitment and retention payment on top of the band 7 base salary.

We're looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to join our inclusive and dedicated engineering team at NICE. We're passionate about meeting user needs whilst building robust and sustainable technology solutions.We are looking for a skilled practitioner in front-end development who cares about software quality, user interfaces and experiences. You'll help to build new user interfaces using the NICE Design System component library, and improve existing front-end systems. You'll help to improve the NICE Design System and contribute to its roll out across services. You'll work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team with UX designers, developers, testers, business analysts and delivery managers. You'll participate in the front-end community at NICE, contributing to front-end development principles and best practices.

We're building a new web platform using full-stack React (Next.js) with Typescript. We also have C# for backend services, SQL and NoSQL databases. We use Elasticsearch for search and we run our apps on AWS with a growing interest in cloud-native architectures.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Front-End Developer you will:

-Build maintainable, accessible web applications, user interfaces and the NICE Design System to serve a variety of user needs and NICE services, taking responsibility for the quality of the code you produce.

-Be user-focussed and driven by user requirements.

-Have an eye for design and work closely with the User Experience Design team to advise on prototypes.

-Plan and undertake the research and assessment of emerging front-end technologies for use across the wider department, including advising and influencing adoption plans.

-Be a self-directed learner, keeping up to date with modern front-end tools and techniques.

-Work independently, having a high level of disciplined self-management and ownership of front-end development issues.

-Contribute to front-end development, accessibility and client-side performance best practice policies for the development department

-Implement best practice client-side security in new and existing projects.

Assessment will be via a panel interview and a technical assessment for skills relevant to the role. Technical assessment will focus on the following competencies:

o Knowledge of maintainable HTML, CSS and Javascript/Reacto Communicating to technical and non-technical colleagues

About us

The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 80 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user-centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams. We develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services, including NICE's website which attracts more than 2 million users a month.

Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.

Some of our benefits include:

-NHS pension scheme and staff discounts

-Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities

-We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance

-We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme