Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.

Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.

Job purpose

We're currently looking to hire a Senior Frontend Engineer to be part of a smart, motivated, and cross-functional agile unit contributing towards the design, code, testing and implementation of solutions to meet our customer’s needs. Based in our offices in Croydon, you will be joining our team as an experienced engineer. Your role will be to deliver high-quality, scalable and robust components for our customer-facing systems. The role is hands-on and will provide the opportunity to work with cloud-native technologies and help shape our AWS future.

How you will contribute to Janes

• Be part of an Agile team contributing to the design, coding, testing and delivery of applications and services across the full SDLC.
• Contributing to coding standards and creating unit tests.
• Be technically curious, tackling problems without giving up, and producing solutions.
• Able to analyse existing systems and processes offering incremental improvements.
• Take part in code and design reviews helping to improve overall software quality.
• Be proud of the work you produce and how it is done and help to identify opportunities for the adoption of new technologies.

Requirements

• High proficiency and experience with React and associated tooling
• High proficiency and experience with Typescript and associated tooling
• In-depth practical experience in HTML5, CSS & JavaScript and building responsive websites.
• Understanding and experience with RESTful web services and API design
• Understanding of Node.js & npm.
• Experience with cloud native development and deployment inside AWS, API Gateways / Lambdas.
• Familiarity with Unit testing, TDD, and automated frontend (unit/component) using jest and playwright.
• Experience working with .NET stack a bonus

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave  
• Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)  
• Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
• Pension plan (6% employer contribution) 
• Private medical insurance – Vitality
• Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)  
• Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks) 
• Life cover  
• Access to GoodHabitz
• Access to the onsite gym