SUMMARY

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.

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.

HIRING PROCESS

Step 1 – Complete the application form and upload your CV and cover letter.

Step 2 – If we invite you to an interview, we will:

• Send details of the 5–10-minute presentation we’d like to you do.
• Send your interview questions in advance
• Check with you if you need any further accommodations for the interview.

Step 3 – Attend the panel interview. This will usually be a 1-hour video call with up to 3 people like the hiring manager and other team members you would work with.
We’ll ask you to do your presentation at the start of the interview. We are keen to ensure that the video interview process doesn’t interfere with your ability to present your work to its best effect. Your presentation can be talking direct to camera, slides, a PDF, or similar, and could include visual examples of your work. The panel will then ask you follow up questions.
The panel will then ask a set of questions which will also have been sent to you in advance.
This will give you the chance to think about your answers in depth and be able to talk with confidence. The questions will give you an opportunity to show how you meet the essential criteria of the job description.
At the end you’ll have the opportunity to ask the panel questions in return.

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.

APPLY FOR THIS ROLE

To apply for this role you must:

• upload a CV
• write and upload a supporting statement/cover letter

To apply, select the “Apply for this job” button.

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 / C