Senior Front End React Engineer

The CESA Futures Programme is a major 2yr+ programme of work within the overarching Tax Admin Modernisation Programme. Currently completing the Discovery phase, CESA Futures will modernise the existing CESA application through the creation of new capabilities or the transfer of functionality to other existing systems across the estate.

The remediated capabilities within Tax Admin are referred to as the Auxiliary Self-Assessment Solutions (ASAS), which itself consist of a number of products. These products contain Presentation, Service and Data layers.

These are largely supported by the following technologies:

Presentation Layer:

• Remix React Framework

• JavaScript

• Form generation engine’

Service Layer:

• Java

• Spring

• .NET (to support an existing project)

• JSON

• RabbitMQ

Data Layer:

• MongoDB

• Oracle

The CESA Futures team follows agile principles, on a two-week sprint cadence, with multiple scrum teams forming the overall engineering team. Engineers are expected to be, or become, T-shaped and able to operate across the product stack, including testing (or have a drive to develop their skills in other areas)., * Kubernetes

• Micro-services
• GraalVM
• Helm
• Mockito
• AWS
• Kibana
• Grafana
• Open API
• gRPC/Protobuf
• WCAG
• OAuth2/OpenID
• Sustainable Software Engineering
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• Selenium
• Agile Scrum
• Agile Practices

This particular role is for a senior FrontEnd React technical resource with the ability to guide/coach less experienced engineers, within a team (roughly 4-8 engineers) under the general guidance of a Technical Lead is important. There is expectation that the person fulfilling the role will be willing to learn aspects of BackEnd delivery., * Javascript React

• Java 17+
• Spring Boot 3+
• Junit
• Playwright
• HTML
• Object Oriented Design
• JPA
• Maven
• Gitlab (understanding of Git at least is essential)
• JDBC
• Proven leadership skills
• Good communication skills
• Proven team engagement skills
• Proven coaching skills
• Quality Driven
• Adaptable/ability to context switch
• Stakeholder Management