Front End Developer – Digital Defence Services

at  BAE Systems

LOCATION(S): UK, EUROPE & AFRICA : UK : GLOUCESTER || UK, EUROPE & AFRICA : UK : LONDON

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

DIVISION OVERVIEW: CAPABILITIES

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.
As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Front-End Developer to join our Digital Defence Services team following continuous growth and success. Within Digital Defence Services we are a critical partner to the UK Ministry of Defence in their adoption of secure digital solutions that enable multi-domain integration and data exploitation, which provides the advantage to those who serve and protect us.
Positioned within a thriving Digital Defence Services Business Unit and part of a wider vibrant Security Consulting Community from across other sectors, you will be supported in the role and have the opportunity to learn and develop, with clear pathways defined for your career progression in the organisation.
Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting edge, high quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the public sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas and with new clients.
Holding a current MoD/Partner DV is essential for this role.

You can bring to the role:

• Experience in hooks based React (v18)
• Experience of coding in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Understanding of front-end build tools such as Vite, NPM
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines using software such as GitLab
• Comfortable developing on both Linux and Windows
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens
• Experience with integration and E2E testing using tools such as Playwrigh