Front End Developer

Introduction

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations.

Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised 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.

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, Dev Ops 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.

• Strong JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 development
• Experience with modern frameworks (React, Vue.js, Next.js)
• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility and usability best…