Front End Developer

About Scrumconnect Consulting
Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we build innovative digital services that matter.

Role Overview
We are looking for a Front End Developer who specialises in design systems to help build, maintain and drive adoption of a government design system. You'll create accessible, reusable components that teams across the programme can rely on, and you'll support their rollout through documentation, communication and hands-on adoption help.

This is a Front End specialist role. We want someone who has built or maintained component libraries and cares about accessibility, performance and developer experience.

Location: UK-based, with some travel to Taunton
Contract type: Permanent, Full-Time
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum, plus benefits
Clearance: BPSS required
Start date: ASAP

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a government-standard component library and design system
• Audit and remediate components to WCAG 2.2 AA
• Develop Front End components in the design system's existing stack, packaged and versioned for reuse
• Work with designers using Figma (including Dev Mode and Figma Make) to turn designs into production components
• Support change, communications and adoption activity for design system rollout across delivery teams
• Write and maintain automated tests, with component testing through Storybook and Chromatic
• Maintain automated build, test and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and YAML
• Maintain documentation sites and release notes, including migration guides for breaking changes

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience building or maintaining government design systems or component libraries, not just consuming them
• Strong experience auditing and remediating to WCAG 2.2 AA, including the tools and methods used
• Strong Front End skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS, with React and/or Angular
• Experience with Figma Dev Mode/Figma Make
• Experience supporting change, communications and adoption for a design system or similar shared product
• Experience writing code that calls APIs
• Experience with Azure DevOps and YAML pipelines
• Experience writing test scripts and building automated build and test pipelines
• Fluent English and clear written and verbal communication
• Experience with DAST tooling

Desirable

• Web components, Storybook and npm packaging