Junior Developer
You will work with JavaScript, React, Python, Django, Wagtail, PostgreSQL, Docker, RESTful APIs, Git, and WCAG 2.2 AA standards. You will join a small internal engineering team within a national public body that provides free legal advice, building an in-house capability and contributing to digital services used by over a million people. The development approach is AI-first, with coding assistants integrated into daily workflows.
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Junior Developer | JavaScript, React, AI-First | Government-Backed Service Used by 1m+ People
Salary: £32,500 - £40,000 + benefits
Location: Hybrid, London – 2 days a week in the office
Contract: 23-month fixed-term, 35 hours per week
No visa sponsorship
Over a million people a year come to these digital services while dealing with something stressful and legally complicated, often at one of the harder moments in their lives. Your job is to make that experience clear, reliable and easy to use. You'll be joining a small internal engineering team inside a national public body that gives free, impartial legal advice to the public across England and Wales. They're building their own in-house engineering capability for the first time, and you'll be one of the first developers in it, working directly alongside the Technical Lead.
You'll write across the stack but lean towards the front end, turning designs and user needs into clean, accessible React interfaces with Python and Django behind them. You'll also help scope the work, so you need to be a strong communicator who can talk a problem through before writing code. The team works AI-first: coding assistants are part of the daily workflow, never a shortcut past understanding what you ship.
Non-Negotiables
JavaScript and React (or a similar modern framework)
Python (Django a strong plus)
AI first development approach
HTML and CSS (strong fundamentals, with an eye for detail)
Git and collaborative version control
Commercial software development experience (18 months or more)
A strong communicator, comfortable scoping and talking through pieces of work
What You'll Work With
Wagtail (Django-based CMS)
PostgreSQL
Docker
RESTful APIs
Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA
The GOV.UK Service Standard
Nice to Haves
Figma, with an interest in interaction and user-experience design
Accessibility testing and best practice
Automated testing
Experience in the public sector, a charity, or another purpose-driven organisation
A degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent experience
Why Join
You'll build services that count, used by more than a million people a year who need clear help at a difficult time. You'll be mentored directly by an experienced senior engineer and given room to take on more ownership as you go, which is rare this early in a career. You'll have a real say in how a national service looks and works, from the front-end detail through to accessibility and the GOV.UK Service Standard. And you'll work in a proper AI-first setup, with modern tooling as standard rather than something you have to argue for.
Employee Benefits
10% non-contributory employer pension
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
35-hour contract with flexi-working - sustainable productivity is valued over long hours
Generous personal development budget and support for ongoing CPD
Junior Developer | JavaScript, React, AI-First | Government-Backed Service Used by 1m+ People