Front End Developer
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Job description
We are looking for a Front-End Developer to build modern, responsive, and accessible user interfaces using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js. You will translate UI/UX designs into high quality experiences, collaborate with designers and backend teams, and contribute to clean, maintainable code. If you enjoy creating intuitive, user focused front-end applications and working with modern web technologies, we'd love to hear from you., * Develop high-quality, responsive, and accessible front-end interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Translate UI/UX designs into functional user experiences, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and adherence to brand and design guidelines.
- Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, QA, DevOps, and other team members to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Build reusable components, UI patterns, and maintain clean, well-structured code.
- Conduct testing, debugging, and performance optimisation to ensure a smooth user experience.
- Participate in requirements analysis, providing front-end input to design and solution discussions.
- Contribute to CI/CD processes and version control workflows using Git-based tooling.
- Stay current with emerging front-end technologies and apply them appropriately.
- Depending on experience:
- Lead front-end development on complex projects and define architecture and coding standards.
- Guide development workflows, testing strategies, and release processes.
- Mentor junior and mid-level developers and support their technical and consulting development.
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and solution approaches to stakeholders and clients.
- Influence planning, technical strategy, or account-level delivery decisions., IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Strong JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 development
- Experience with modern frameworks (React, Vue.js, Next.js)
- Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and usability best practices
- Experience with component libraries, design systems, and UI/UX collaboration
- Strong debugging, testing, and performance optimisation skills
- Experience with Git and Git-based workflows
- Understanding of API integration and backend collaboration
- Knowledge of front-end testing (unit, integration, E2E)
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps workflows
- Strong communication and problem-solving ability
- Optional depending on level:
- Experience leading teams or acting as technical lead
- Experience defining architecture, standards, or best practices
- Understanding of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure)
- Exposure to Node.js or Next.js server-side concepts
- Consulting or client-facing experience, Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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Benefits & conditions
- Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
- Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
- Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
- Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
- A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
- Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
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