Senior Front-End Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Pay of up to £80,664, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a Senior Front-End Developer, you will join our Engineering community and play a key role in shaping and delivering front-end solutions used across DWP Digital. You will be part of teams responsible for building and maintaining reusable patterns, components and libraries that underpin digital services at national scale. This is a senior role with real influence. You will lead front end development across multiple products, promote best practice and act as an advocate for accessibility, usability and quality. Your work will directly support teams across DWP to design and deliver services more consistently and to a higher standard.

DWP is the UK’s largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience working on large-scale, enterprise-level systems, with an understanding of the technical and organisational constraints that come with them.
• Expert-level experience building front-end applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript and Node, including working with open-source technologies.
• Strong experience designing and delivering accessible user interfaces, with a deep understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 AA standards and how to apply them in practice.
• Experience leading the technical direction of front-end work, setting standards, promoting best practice, and ensuring consistency and quality across teams.
• Confidence building and maintaining reusable components, patterns and libraries, and encouraging their adoption across multiple products.
• Experience integrating front-end solutions with back-end systems, and choosing appropriate technologies and approaches.
• Strong experience leading, coaching and mentoring developers, helping others improve their skills and creating a positive engineering culture.

You and your role

As a Senior Front-End Developer, you will be a trusted and empowered technical leader within DWP Digital. You will shape how front-end development is done across our organisation, working on products and platforms that allow our teams to design and deliver consistent, reusable and accessible services. You will help us develop products and services that work better for millions of people and over 100,000 colleagues and agents. A key part of your role will be leading the development and evolution of reusable front-end patterns and components. You will help define standards, promote design system adoption, and ensure that code is robust, accessible and easy for teams to use and build upon. You will also support the release, maintenance and deployment of products and code packages used widely across DWP.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure front-end solutions integrate effectively with back-end services and meet high standards for performance, accessibility, browser compatibility and user experience. Using modern tooling and development techniques, you will champion test-driven development and iterative delivery. You will be hands-on, but we also need your leadership skills. You will coach and mentor colleagues, help grow capability across teams, and contribute to engineering and user-centred design communities. You will act as an enabler for multiple teams, resolving technical blockers, promoting collaboration and helping teams deliver at pace without compromising quality.

This is a role that will suit anyone who enjoys working at scale, influencing how things are done, and balancing deep technical expertise with leadership and advocacy. If you care about building accessible, high-quality digital services and want to leave a lasting impact across government, then apply today.

Details

Location: You will join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you will spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face-to-face in a hub.

Pay: We offer pay up to £80,664. That’s £57,946 – £68,205 salary plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 subject to our assessment of your capability at interview.

Pension: You will get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,759 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You will also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies.
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving.
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'.
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more.
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket – so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference.
• Sports and social activities.
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

And We Have An Award-winning Environment And Culture

DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards.

Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024.

Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025.

Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards.

Process

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages.

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There will be full instructions when you click through.
• Interview: a technical coding test, followed by a single-stage interview online.

Click APPLY for more information and to start your application.