Frontend Developer

Role Responsibility

Do you see yourself making a difference as part of a team creating high quality website experiences for the residents of Kent?

Our Marketing and Resident Experience team needs an experienced Frontend Developer to work on the main KCC website and several sister sites to help residents get to the information and services they need.

Whether it’s explaining new policies, helping residents access our services or promoting innovative initiatives that make a real difference to the lives of people in Kent, we need your frontend development expertise to help make it happen. All work on our websites must comply with relevant accessibility regulations, UX principles and coding standards.

You will be responsible for:

• Several website development projects, from scoping and design through to deployment and maintenance
• Collaborating with content, design and marketing teams, as well as other stakeholders, to clarify requirements, appraise options and create accessible, user-centred website experiences
• Developing, testing, deploying, documenting and maintaining front-end codebases, CMS templates, reusable components and integrations
• Supporting and advising non-technical colleagues and content designers on risks, implications and optimum solution

About you

• You have an excellent track record of developing accessible, user-centred  websites with high quality, standards-compliant code
• You have very good frontend development skills, especially with HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript as well as experience of TypeScript, React and Test-Driven Development
• You accept and offer challenge, you’re curious to innovate and take responsibility for the difference you make through your work
• You love to collaborate, are highly organised with a keen attention to detail, and have the flexibility to change course when required
• You work best as part of a multi-disciplinary team and can work effectively in a remote working environment

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

Contact Details

For further information regarding this role, please contact:
Andrew Bose (andrew.bose@kent.gov.uk)

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.