Front End Developer

Work on exciting public sector projects and make a positive difference in people’s lives.

Zaizi is looking for an experienced Front End Developer who will be working with secure government clients to help them develop user focused products. We thrive on solving complex challenges through creative thinking and the latest tools and tech.

Our clients need people who will challenge their thinking and shake things up. The products are complex and of national importance. You will have full autonomy to work as you see fit, and will be supported by experienced agile multi-disciplinary teams.

Our culture is inclusive, modern, friendly and innovative. We seek 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, you'll 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

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 API’s
• 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

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.