Front End Developer

Front End Developer

Front End Developer - home or office based £40,000 - c£52,000, DoE MacArthur Recruitment is seeking a Front End Developer for a successful client in the Lake District. It's mainly home based with team based get togethers in the Lake District every so often; however you can work from the office if you prefer. It's likely you'll be based within approximately a couple of hours of the Lake District however.

Purpose of the role of Front End Developer: Responsible for the design, development, maintenance and testing of our client's software and infrastructure, as part of an Agile team who are focussed on creating and running ingenious technology that really makes a difference to everyone that depends on the software. The position offers a high degree of freedom to explore emergent technologies.

Responsibilities for the role of Front End Developer:

• Support, design and engineer software and products, to help the company help as many people as possible feel safe, connected and informed.
• Learn about, maintain and improve software and products used by the company and its clients, to ensure high levels of service availability and reliability.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, to create business efficiencies and bring about advantages to the company and its clients.
• Perform testing and create documentation for the software and systems used by the company and its clients, to ensure a high level of quality assurance.
• Communicate with other team members, stakeholders, suppliers and other third parties, to ensure the success of projects from scope through to delivery.
• Support other members of the company's technical team, to help them to be successful in their work and to learn new skills or technologies.
• Support the company's operational team when technical incidents arise, to ensure minimal disruption and clear communication.
• Evaluate, improve and develop processes and tools used by the technical team, to effectively support engineering and develop processes.

Your experience for the role of Front End Developer: Either Python or Javascript + node with React experience (if you have both Python and Javascript that's a bonus). You'll have some experience of bringing software projects to fruition within an agile team Experience or interest in the design of software architecture is an advantage Leading (or wanting to) on projects from user story through to production. Smart and likeable person who get's enjoyment from problem solving and making the world a better place.

Technologies used by our client: Python and Java tools, Python (eg Flask / Django) JavaScript / TypeScript / AngularJS, Java (EE / Spring) Node.js, CFML on Lucee (legacy) HTML5 / CSS3 / PWA, REST / JSON / JWT PostgreSQL / MySQL / ActiveMQ, Git / SSH / LDAP/ Slack Ubuntu / Apache Tomcat / Nginx / HAProxy / WSGI / SSL / TLS VMWare ESXi / Docker / Rancher / Kubernetes / Vagrant

Why work for our client as a Front End Developer? Work for a company that looks after its people Full time role, with future opportunities Work from home mostly, office required every so often £40,000 - c£52,000 DOE 40 hour week 25 days holiday + BH's Friendly, relaxed environment