Senior Frontend Developer

Location: National*

Closing Date: 10th October

Interviews: w/c 28th October

Grade: Grade 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary (please check T&Cs on the bottom for more info):

London: £58,847 - £73,875 (which may include an allowance of up to £15,028)

National: £54,358 - £69,150 (which may include an allowance of up to £14,792)

Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 90761

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

About the role

We’re recruiting Senior Frontend Developers at Justice Digital, to be part of our Criminal Justice System (CJS) Dashboard team.

This role aligns against the Senior frontend developer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework

The CJS Dashboard provides the public, Ministers, senior officials, policy colleagues, and local decision-makers with trusted data and metrics about the performance of the criminal justice system.

The Dashboard enables these users to understand the system and make informed decisions to improve performance.

We are working with the CJS Data Improvement Programme to iterate and improve the service to make things simpler, faster and better for people working in Local Criminal Justice Boards, leveraging more timely, linked data.

As a senior frontend developer, you will:

• lead frontend development of the CJS Dashboard and other dashboard products
• develop, test and implement accessible frontend components, including new components to visualise data, metrics and insights
• champion accessibility and ensure the service meets government accessibility requirements
• work with designers and user researchers to build, test and iterate prototypes and mockups
• stay up to date with emerging technologies and identify opportunities to incorporate these into the service
• write clean, well-tested code that follows web standards
• coach and mentor more junior colleagues

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Person Specification

We welcome applications from anyone with the skills we consider to make a good frontend developer, even if you’re not currently in a frontend developer role.

We are looking for people with experience in the following:

• frontend development with Javascript, HTML and CSS
• React or other frontend JavaScript frameworks
• NodeJS, Express and TypeScript
• using and contributing to component and pattern libraries
• version control tools, such as git
• automated testing, for example with Jest or Cypress
• building CI/CD workflows, ideally with GitHub Actions
• building and deploying containerised applications in the Cloud, ideally with Kubernetes and AWS
• building services that meet WCAG accessibility requirements

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

If you don't have experience in all of these then that's all right. We get it, it's a long list! We encourage you to still apply and give us the chance to consider your application. A key attribute we're interested in is the willingness and ability to learn. Learning and development is something we value and prioritise within our community.

There are some tips toward the end of this advert about how to apply - we strongly recommend you read these, especially if you're new to applying for roles in the Civil Service. 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Our Tech Stack

Within Justice Digital we use a range of technologies. We’re looking for people who specialise in one or more of them and who love learning new languages and frameworks.

For the CJS Dashboard, we use a Python framework called Plotly Dash, which is built on top of Plotly.js, React and Flask. We test, build and deploy our service using GitHub Actions and host it on the MoJ Cloud Platform, which runs on Kubernetes and AWS. We use components, styles and patterns from the GOV.UK Design System where we can.

Our Community

There are currently over 200 experienced developers who make up the engineering community in Justice Digital. You will coach and mentor junior colleagues and take part in informal support networks with your peers. You will be encouraged to play an active role in the engineering community and culture.

We take the responsibility of supportive and effective line management very seriously. We will value the skills you bring to the civil service and help you to build on them. When the time is right we will support moving between teams or government departments to learn different technologies or take on more responsibility, according to your career goals.

Take a look at our developer blog and Justice Digital blog to get a sense of our work and culture.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow.
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app. 
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location).
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and an optional Statement of Suitability (Up to 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Changing and improving

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 60-minute panel interview held via video conference. A small technical test will need to be completed in advance, as it will be discussed and developed during the interview.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on recent experience as a Developer will be conducted prior to the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for, but demonstrated the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and potentially offer you the position without the need for a further application.

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk