JavaScript Developer - Leeds Engineering Centre

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 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.

About the role

Here at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we believe that digital technology is the key to unlocking our customers’ advantage. We are an innovative and respected engineering organisation providing services to governments around the world. We are proud of the mission critical systems that we build for our customers, in areas that truly make a difference to society.

Owing to continued growth of our Leeds Engineering Centre, we have opportunities for JavaScript software engineers at a variety of experience levels. You will need to have experience using JavaScript or TypeScript in frameworks and libraries such as React, Angular and NodeJS. Our developers are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, optimised, high quality solutions that look and perform superbly across all platforms. This position will involve using the latest frameworks and libraries to deliver exceptional development services to our clients. You will work in Agile teams and have a voice in the direction of the software engineering and design.

We want you to be more than a developer. All our team members are challenged to use their expertise, experience, insight and desire to collaborate in order to clearly communicate technical information, functionality, and limitations to non-technical audiences, whilst influencing the overall implementation.

Security Clearance is required for this role, if you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the clearance process.

Key responsibilities:

• Software development and optimisation
• Conducting reviews of supplied requirements and specifications.
• Providing accurate estimates of development effort required.
• Reviewing design and code outputs from colleagues
• Shared accountability for engineering best practice within the team.
• Communicating with other team members, internal staff, and external clients.
• Building relationships with stakeholders.

About you:

• Good experience in JavaScript/TypeScript Development using a variety of tools, frameworks, libraries
  
• Good understanding of source control and continuous delivery/integration pipelines
  
• Familiarity with unit testing and mocking libraries
  

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

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.