Front-End Developer (React and React Native)

Front-End Developer (React and React Native)

Bromley, Kent

Competitive salary

Fixed Term Contract

Full-Time

We're looking for an experienced Frontend Developer (React & React Native) to join our Digital Solutions team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

In this hands-on role, you'll play a key part in growing our digital platform, delivering intuitive omni-channel services for our customers, and enhancing the workflows and systems that support our customer-facing teams.

You'll be involved across the full development lifecycle from collaborating with the business to understand customer needs, through design and build, to testing and release. Strong React and React Native expertise, a passion for clean, scalable front-end development, and a customer-first mindset will be critical to your success.

What you will do

• Design, build and maintain web applications using React
• Develop and support mobile applications using React Native
• Integrate applications using RESTful APIs
• Deploy applications and support releases into production
• Build responsive, accessible and well-structured user interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Contribute to front-end architecture and application design
• Collaborate with the business, architects and other multi-skilled team members to gather requirements and shape solutions
• Take ownership of projects from concept through to delivery
• Estimate, prioritise and manage workloads effectively across the development lifecycle
• Ensure solutions meet both technical standards and business needs
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and best practices in web and mobile development
• Support and coach other team members where appropriate

Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times are flexible from 8.30am to 9.30am. Hybrid working is available a minimum of 2 days per week working in the office.

What we require

• Proven experience developing with React JS and React Native
• Strong experience with Redux Toolkit
• Solid understanding of modern JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Experience building secure, customer-facing front-end applications
• Ability to work with web services that integrate with external systems
• Experience designing or working closely with APIs
• .NET / C# experience is desirable but not essential
• Confident communicator, able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

What we offer you

• Competitive salary
• Annual holiday allowance of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life Assurance (based on pensionable earnings)
• Generous contributory Pension scheme
• 1 days paid charitable workday
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

Foresters Financial is not your typical financial services provider. Those who join our purpose-driven organisation enjoy a culture of collaboration, creativity, and mutual respect and are challenged to do their best to make a difference every day. We help everyday families achieve their financial goals and make a lasting difference in their lives and communities.

What we do

We help everyday families achieve their financial goals and make a lasting difference in their lives and communities. We will continue to do this by employing enthusiastic and talented Financial Advisers working across the country and equally talented people to be based at our Head Office in Bromley.

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