Frontend Developer (SC Cleared)

Job Title: Frontend Developer (SC Cleared) Location: Remote (fortnightly travel to London office) Contract Length: 12 Months (with scope to extend) Start Date: ASAP IR35: Inside Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams (technical assessment included) Clearance: SC (with eligibility for higher levels of clearance) We are supporting a public sector client in hiring a Frontend Developer to join a small, focused engineering team maintaining and improving a live service within a legacy deployment environment. This is a hands-on development and service management role requiring someone comfortable taking ownership of a legacy service, contributing to incident resolution, release management and continuous service improvement alongside active development work. The successful candidate will become a subject matter expert for the service, working within Agile sprint cycles and collaborating closely with a Programme Manager and Delivery Manager to demonstrate, accept and ship changes. This role suits an experienced Frontend Developer comfortable working within legacy environments, confident discussing and reviewing code under scrutiny, and able to balance service support responsibilities alongside ongoing development activity. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain the existing frontend service, taking ownership of the codebase and becoming the subject matter expert for the domainManage and resolve tickets across incident, change, service request and problem processes in line with DDaT operating modelsBuild and manage deployment packages for release into production, ensuring controlled and well-documented release managementWrite and pass feature and external API tests as required, maintaining and updating API documentation where necessaryConduct peer reviews for each change and commit code to the master branch following review and approvalIdentify and implement continuous service improvement opportunities across service management processes and technologyDemonstrate completed changes to the Programme Manager or Delivery Manager during sprint reviews and show and tell sessionsInterface with other support services, raising and responding to requests and contributing to shared technical investigations Essential Skills Strong React and TypeScript proficiency with proven front end development experience in production environmentsFamiliarity with the GDS Design Kit and experience delivering to GDS service standardsNode.js experience for server-side and tooling developmentExperience with Docker for containerised development and deployment workflowsExperience with Storybook for component development and documentationComfortable working with and taking ownership of legacy services and legacy deployment modelsExperience writing feature and API tests as part of an Agile sprint delivery cycleStrong communication skills with the ability to discuss, review and explain code clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Desirable Skills Familiarity with service management processes including incident, change and problem management within DDaT frameworksCI/CD pipeline experience and version control using GitExperience working within public sector or regulated delivery environments