Senior Developer

Senior Developer

Location: Manchester

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year This role qualifies for a 13% per annum R&R Payment

Vacancy Type: Fixed term (22 Months)

The closing date is 07 June 2026

This role qualifies for a 13% per annum recruitment and retention payment on top of the band 7 base salary.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to help design, build and improve the digital services that support the NHS and wider health and care system.

You will be a key contributor within an agile, multidisciplinary engineering team, developing accessible, high-quality and performant front-end applications used by millions of users. You will work closely with designers, researchers and back-end developers, contributing to technical decisions and supporting the development of more junior colleagues.

Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. Please refer to the Direct Gov website for further information regarding eligibility.

Please note this vacancy may be closed early if sufficient suitable applications are received so we encourage an early application.

The interviews will take place in-person at our Manchester office

Main duties of the job

o Designing and building robust, secure, front end web applications.o Writing maintainable, and well tested code using modern front end technologies such as React, NextJs, Vite, Nuqso Work collaboratively as part of an Agile, multidisciplinary delivery team o Ensuring services meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and follow NICE and GDS best practice.o Participating in code reviews, knowledge sharing and mentoring activities.o Supporting live services and helping identify and resolve technical issues.o Working with the wider Engineering Team to prototype, evaluate and integrate emerging technologies such as generative AI into secure, reusable and production ready front end components.