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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Front-End Developer - **Company:** DWP Digital - **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £57,946.0 - £68,205.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe Analytics, Design of User Interfaces, User-Centered Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Backend, Front End Software Development - **Published:** September 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840622708-senior-front-end-developer ## About the Role * Experience working on large-scale, enterprise-level systems, with an understanding of the technical and organisational constraints that come with them * 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 ## Description As a Senior Front-End Developer you'll join our Engineering community and play a key role in shaping and delivering front-end solutions used across DWP Digital. You'll 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'll 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., As a Senior Front-End Developer, you'll be a trusted and empowered technical leader within DWP Digital. You'll 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'll 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'll help define standards, promote design system adoption, and ensure that code is robust, accessible and easy for teams to use and build upon. You'll also support the release, maintenance and deployment of products and code packages used widely across DWP. You'll be hands-on, but we also need your leadership skills. You'll coach and mentor colleagues, help grow capability across teams, and contribute to engineering and user-centred design communities. You'll 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. ## Related Videos - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Accessibility isn't magic, Longevity, Devrel in times of AI and more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1730-wearedevelopers-live-accessibility-isn-t-magic-longevity-devrel-in-times-of-ai-and-more) - [Design as an algorithm, not as a feature](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/471-design-as-an-algorithm-not-as-a-feature) - [3x Performance: A Humbling Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100165-3x-performance-a-humbling-journey) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE – Frontend Inspirations, Web Standards and more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1761-wearedevelopers-live-frontend-inspirations-web-standards-and-more) - [Insight into AI-Driven Design](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1016-insight-into-ai-driven-design) ## Related Articles - [Frontend Developer Salary in The UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/233-frontend-developer-salary-in-the-uk) - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front) - [What is a web developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/18-what-is-a-web-developer) - [How Developers Can Focus on Maintaining Satisfaction With Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/109-how-developers-can-focus-on-maintaining-satisfaction-with-accessibility) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)