Job Description

Posted 1 day ago

12 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT

My client is a Top 40 law firm with offices throughout the UK are seeking an experienced Frontend Developer to join their team in Liverpool on a 12 month fixed term basis. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer and 10th overall employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards 2023 and achieved record rankings in Chambers UK. This role comes with flexible Hybrid Home/Office working.

As a Frontend Developer, you will work in the Agile Application Development team which is made up of many teams that work together to support the company’s information systems and infrastructure. The teams include IT Applications, IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity, IT Services and IT Portfolio and Project Management.

The successful candidate must possess an excellent knowledge of frontend technologies and good knowledge of the .NET platform and Microsoft Stack technologies, having used them in order to develop, maintain and support enterprise standard solutions both in a team and alone.

This role should be filled by a frontend developer with previous experience in a similar role. It is essential that the successful candidate be enthusiastic about the technologies being used and they possess a desire to learn how to use these appropriately in an enterprise environment.

The candidate will work 2 days within the office and 3 days from home. On occasion, the candidate will be required to travel to the Liverpool office.

Your key duties and responsibilities will include:

To become part of the Applications Development Team, developing software components and maintaining existing systems as part of a team or on their own

Follow standards and procedures to produce consistent measurable results.

Develop solutions and software within an Agile and ISO (phone number removed) software development environment.

Be proactive in identifying and resolving potential issues before they become incidents.

This list is not intended to be exhaustive, and you will be expected to perform other duties and have other responsibilities that fall within the wider remit of the role.

Experience required:

* Previous examples of work that demonstrate your skills.

* 3-5+ years of experience as a developer

About You:

As the role is varied, we are looking for you to have a flexible approach to the work you do and be able to adapt to different tasks. We also require you to have:

* Experience with UI/UX design either producing own designs or following a specification as required.

* Enthusiasm for producing performant and accessible UI

* Good knowledge of Visual Studio (latest version)/VS Code

* Excellent Knowledge of standards for web development such as HTML5 & modern CSS / SASS

* Excellent Knowledge of frontend development technologies JavaScript/jQuery / TypeScript

* Excellent Knowledge of UI frameworks such as Vue / Angular

* Nice to have Vue 3 / Composition API

* Knowledge of Figma

* Knowledge of Material design and bootstrap

* Knowledge of Agile methodology and unit testing with Vitest / Jest

* Knowledge of Azure Pipelines CI/CD tools

* Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to identify risk, evaluate impact and produce appropriate solutions, or escalate as necessary.

* Excellent deadline and personal time management skills

* Excellent communication skills

* Advantage to have awareness of:

* C#

* MVC

* Razor

* .NET Core and .NET Framework

* Azure services

* OWASP

* Chromatic

* Storybook

* Accessibility

* Node.js

* Ability to rollout solutions that are well tested and meet the needs of the end users.

* Can work with other members of staff when additional resource is required on projects.

* Awareness of ISO27001 would be an advantage.

Benefits:

28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part time)

Agile / working from home including provision of home office equipment*

Healthcare cover/ Medicash

Pension plan

Life Insurance 4 x salary

Interest free travel loan scheme

Employee Assistance Programme including counselling, legal and consumer advice service.

Discounted gym membership

Discounted dental scheme.

Cycle to work scheme.

Offers & discounts.

Great reward and recognition scheme

We strongly encourage applications from people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and disabilities. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustment at any stage of the application process.

This is a new and exciting opportunity to develop within the industry and to be part of a fast-paced dynamic firm