Developer

About the Role

• Your task will be to join us and embed into the team as a UI development specialist.
• You’ll have strong knowledge of HTML and CSS beyond the basics. We don't need you to know any frameworks in particular - but we'd love to see evidence of great fundamentals for building on the web, so you should have good experience building applications using JavaScript in the browser.
• We’ll look for people with practical experience making accessible and fast user interfaces. We should get a sense that you know how to write reusable, maintainable code with your team. This likely means that you’ll have a good knowledge of what browsers can do today, so you don’t reinvent things it does out-of-the-box!
• We don’t have dedicated UI designers on staff, so your sense of design should be finely tuned: you should have good experience building effective user interfaces for complex domains. You should know what it means to build applications, not just websites. If possible, we’d love to see a portfolio of projects you’ve built solo, or as part of a team without designers.
• You should be able to talk usefully about design trade-offs you’ve made in the past, considering users with different responsibilities and skill levels.
• Previous experience with Perl is not a strict requirement. You largely won’t need to write Perl, but to help you read it, we're happy to show you the ropes - you'll be up to speed in no time!
• We’re happy in this role if you don’t have deep knowledge of backend/cloud development. Having some sense of how web applications work is essential, and any experience with full-stack work is a big plus.
• You’ll relish – or at least, enjoy the challenge of - diving into legacy code and documenting, improving and testing the code our users rely on. When you choose to rebuild things, it’s because you genuinely understand the previous solution and its shortcomings.
• If you’re successful, you’ll be crucial in helping us build a consistent, comprehensible, user-friendly system which feels like it “just works”, for thousands of monthly users, helping some of the most vulnerable people in the country.