Front End Developer

Salary: £48,000 – £72,000 per year

Opencast is an ambitious, successful, and growing technology consultancy.

It’s an exciting time to join us on our journey as we grow and expand our services to help our clients tackle bigger, more complex challenges. We plan to treble the size of our team by 2025 — but we’re determined not to lose our unique culture.

We pride ourselves in the qualities of our people. They’re inclusive, creative, and collaborative.

We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.

Join us in our mission to deliver more and better work for our clients and make a bigger impact on society.

The role

Are you an innovative front end developer who wants to help clients transform the way they do things? We’re looking for front end developers with an agile mindset who advocate and practice XP. You’ll also be open minded and keen to promote best practice. At Opencast, we’ll support you as you develop and learn new technologies.

What you’ll do within our teams

* Contribute to both technical and ways of working discussions. This helps to deliver the right solution and promotes a culture of continuous improvement in your team.

* Use TDD and pair programming with other members of your team to deliver well designed and tested code.

* Communicate with both technical and non-technical people. You’ll adjust your language to suit.

* Elaborate on and upkeep user stories and technical tasks.

* Help promote an environment of collaboration, where we treasure values like T-shaping.

* Review your colleagues’ work positively and constructively.

* Mentor junior team members.

* Act as an ambassador for Opencast. You’ll lead by example and promote our approach to software development.

* You’ll suit this role if you:

* have commercial experience as a front end developer with knowledge of browser-based programming languages and templating

* understand accessibility standards and can create user interfaces that conform to them

* have experience using modern web frameworks

* can demonstrate Test-Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming skills

* have worked with distributed version control tools

* have a solid understanding of RESTful and microservice architectures

* can have productive conversations with both business and technical audiences

* are committed to continuous improvement and a drive to better the software development profession.

What makes Opencast right for you?

don’t have to tick every box to join us. We’re looking for those brave enough to ask the right questions and do the right thing. In return, we’ll help you develop your career and thrive.

Your benefits

* Time off: 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, paid sick leave and flexi-working.

* On the money: Employer pension contribution of up to 6% with free advice, life cover 4x salary, Give As You Earn salary contribution option, discretionary and referral bonuses.

* A healthy approach: Corporate rate health scheme, external counsellor, and employee assistance programme.

* Kitted out: Apple MacBook, Bluetooth headset, and Kindle with a large, shared library. Plus, discounts on other Apple products.

* Family values: Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and family excursions.

* Grow with us: Training and support with paid Udemy courses, monthly one-on-ones to help develop your career, and a generous learning budget to attend conferences or go on courses.

* Commuter perks: free parking at our HQ, cycle to work scheme, electric and hybrid company car scheme.

Applicants from overseas

We accept applicants from overseas but once you’re appointed you need to work in the UK.

Interview process

Interviews for this role take place over Microsoft Teams. If that’s not accessible and you need support, we’ll make whatever adjustments are required to accommodate.

Want to find out more?

If you’d like to talk directly about this role with the people leading our services, we’re keen to chat. You may have a question about how we work, the technology we use or want to run an idea past one of our specialists.

Inclusion at Opencast

is an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone thrives. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation.

If you’d like to be part of a team where your voice is heard and your involvement matters, please join us. We’re a better company because you’re with us.

About Opencast

We’re a growing team of specialists who work at the heart of government, global finance and growth enterprise with a range of digital consultancy and tech services.

Our OpenCulture empowers independent-minded people in our mission to do the right thing for our clients, our team and wider society: good teamwork to make life better.