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Royal Greenwich is a vibrant borough, with a rich history and diverse community. We’re proud of the work we do to serve our residents.

We have a vision of a happier, healthier and more connected borough. To achieve this, we’re investing heavily in our digital services and we've published our first ever digital strategy. It's what shapes what we're working on for the next four years and beyond.

It’s an exciting time to join us. We're searching for people-focused digital, data and technology experts to join our new team. We’re focused on improving services for our residents and making our borough truly digital. There's plenty of opportunity for you to have your say and help shape our work.

Read our blog to find out more about who we are and what we're working on.

We welcome applications from developers who identify as front-end, back-end or full-stack, but would be particularly interested in hearing from developers with strong front-end Drupal development skills.

The Role

We are looking for a developer to join our team.

If you are successful in applying for this role, you’ll be working with several different software stacks. Some of the key technologies you’ll be working with are:

• Local Gov Drupal
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Twig, PHP
• Storybook
• AWS & Azure
• Git version control and Gitlab CI / CD

What You’ll Do

Across one or more products in development at discovery, alpha or beta stage, you will:
 

• Build web and mobile web-based products and services to serve user needs
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Build front-end components and contribute to design system maintenance and development
• Identify performance bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization
• Mentor junior members of the development team
• Work across multiple product teams concurrently
• Work with services to help them improve their technology systems, even when we haven’t built them
• Use test-driven development or similar methods to ensure our services are of a high standard.

 Who You Are

We want to hear from people with skills in:

• Building, supporting and continuously iterating software
• Front-end Drupal development and experience of design systems
• Working within multidisciplinary user-centred Agile teams
• Using test driven development or similar
• Pair-programming, mentoring of junior developers

 You Should Be

We are looking for people who share our values and principles:

• naturally curious – you keep on top of your own learning and development and are up to date with the latest techniques and trends in your field  
• an advocate for user-centered practices, embedded within agile delivery   
• able to explain complex technical concepts in plain language
• committed to improving residents’ lives and opportunities
• demonstrating respect and fairness
• taking ownership
• doing things better
• working together across the council

These values are incredibly important to us, as is building an environment that promotes knowledge, empathy, equality, and skill sharing.

Please keep reading:

At Royal Greenwich we want our staff to thrive professionally. We are a business that that recognises and supports transferable skills and ambition So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet every single point on the job description please still get in touch. We’d love to have a chat and see if you’d be a good fit.

We are passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of disability, neurodivergence, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, gender and gender presentation, marital status, sexual orientation, culture, and religion.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.

What we offer

• 28 days’ annual leave
• Flexible and partly remote working arrangements
• Mental health support, including an external counselling service
• Pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeships
• Staff networks for mental health, LGBTQ+ support, racial equality and more
• Vouchers for free eye tests
• Annual season ticket loans
• Childcare voucher scheme
• Reduced-rate gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Greenwich One Card which entitles you to discounts at local businesses

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.