Senior Front-End Engineer
Location: Hybrid – two days per week in the MOD offices in the South East
Contract: 12-month FTC with full company benefits
Clearance: Must hold active SC clearance and have UK government / public sector experience
We are unable to consider candidates who don’t have active SC.
The Company
At Amber Labs, we’re a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that empowers autonomy, promotes experimentation, and drives rapid learning to deliver exceptional value to our clients. Collaboration sits at the heart of our culture — every team member, regardless of role, works together to minimise risk and accelerate delivery. Our teams consist of highly skilled engineers, designers, analysts, and consultants dedicated to building world-class digital services for government and enterprise clients.
About the Role
We’re seeking an experienced Senior Front-End Engineer to lead the development, modification, and maintenance of the front-end elements that users interact with across our government service platforms.
You’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with designers, developers, and user researchers to deliver accessible, performant, and standards-compliant services that meet the needs of real users and align with government digital standards.
This role is about setting the bar for front-end quality, defining best practices, ensuring accessibility and performance, and applying modern development techniques. You’ll champion progressive enhancement, responsive design, and usability across multiple browsers and devices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead front-end development across multiple digital service projects.
- Build accessible, responsive user interfaces that meet GDS accessibility and usability standards.
- Ensure products are built with modern web development techniques and principles.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including UX designers, back-end developers, and testers.
- Maintain high code quality through code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Optimise web performance and maintain browser/device compatibility.
- Mentor junior developers and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
- Contribute to design system evolution and reusable component libraries.
Key Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a front-end developer in production and prototype environments.
- Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (including Node.js, ReactJS, ExpressJS, Mongoose).
- Experience with templating and UI frameworks such as Nunjucks, Freemarker, Bootstrap, LESS, and SASS.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as Git, GitLab CI, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, and Artifactory.
- Deep understanding of accessibility, progressive enhancement, and performance optimisation.
- Experience building services that perform efficiently across multiple devices and browsers.
- Strong understanding of UX principles and user-centred design.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams.
Clearance Requirement
- Must hold active SC clearance
- We are unable to consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship at this time.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure.
- Opportunity to work on impactful government digital services.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
- Private medical insurance (Aviva).
- Company pension plan (Nest).
- 25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays.
- Access to Perkbox – employee discounts, perks, and wellbeing resources.
- Inclusive and collaborative company culture that values experimentation and innovation.
- Choice of device – PC or Mac.
Top Skills
What We Do
Amber Labs is a partnership of highly-skilled consultants and technologists.
We specialise in the evolution of Data Engineering, Cloud and Analytics.
We focus on delivering value from our client’s data using innovative approaches that reduce risk and delivery time, and that we are constantly improving through R&D.
Amber Labs was founded on three key principles:
An employee first internal culture, through diverse investment and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure ensuring everyone has an opportunity to share in the success of Amber Labs.
Persistent analysis to identify opportunities to develop artefacts, accelerators and automation that allow rapid deployment of highly-technical solutions to the cloud or on-premise for our clients.
Consistent investment into our ADM (Amber Labs Delivery Methodology -underpinned by Agile Methodology) to ensure we maximise velocity, quality and value
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