Front End Engineer (Angular)

Job Description

In this role, you'll:

• Turn concepts and requirements into exceptional, highly available, quality web applications using industry-standard languages and technologies.
• Deliver exceptional software solutions to specification and on schedule to provide an engaging customer experience.
• Implement highly modular and maintainable components across a horizontally scalable application framework designed to maximise reuse across multiple channels.
• Participate in the definition of the scope of projects and estimates of timescales for development and maintenance work.
• Play a proactive part in owning your team’s outputs; taking responsibility for code quality, security and scalability, measuring performance and addressing technical issues when required.
• Contribute enthusiastically to our continuous improvement of coding practices, application quality, tooling and agile processes.
• Participate in code reviews and embrace peer feedback on your work.
• Participate in regular showcases of new work to the customer and business stakeholders.

Commercial experience of working in software development or demonstrable experience in the following is essential:

• Angular 12+ (including unit tests)
• Cypress (for E2E and integration testing)
• Jenkins, Gitlab, Git
• Experience working with Splunk, Adobe analytics.
• Understanding, or experience of accessibility best practice

Some of the following would be a bonus too:

• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
• Use of version control, Git/SVN
• History of working with QA and testing teams to deliver a quality product
• Working knowledge of databases and dynamic content is desirable
• Ability to produce accurate documentation
• Ability to analyse information and solve problems

At Leighton, how you approach your work is just as important as what you can deliver, we love colleagues that:

• Are open and genuine communicators
• Are able to take responsibility for your actions
• Are always learning and wanting to improve
• Take responsibility for own development
• Love what you do
• Value and support your team
• Embrace who you are
• Are open-minded and willing to explore new ideas

What we offer

We value our team and to attract exceptional people we offer an excellent package. You can look forward to:

• A competitive salary, aligned to your skills and experience.
• An enhanced pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave, flexible Bank Holidays that you can take any time to suit you, plus we have a 5-day buy/sell scheme for extra flexibility.
• Earn extra £’s by referring future colleagues, customers and innovative business ideas.
• We care - 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme to support with mental, physical and financial well-being.
• We are flexible – why should you have to struggle to balance everything you want to do? At Leighton we have flexible hours, remote working and plenty of holidays.
• We are social – lunch time learning events, games nights, quizzes and sports events.
• We are growing – which means there are lots of opportunities for you to take on new roles, work with new customers or learn new skills.