Job Description
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
Janes is currently seeking a self-motivated Senior Frontend Engineer to work as part of a full-stack agile unit based in our Croydon office. Your role will be to deliver high-quality, scalable, and robust components for our customer-facing systems.
How you will contribute to Janes
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will 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. The role is hands-on and will provide the opportunity to work with cloud-native technologies and help shape our AWS future.- 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, tackle problems without giving up, and produce 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, how it is done, and help to identify opportunities for the adoption of new technologies.
Requirements
- In-depth practical experience in HTML5, CSS & JavaScript, and building responsive websites.
- Proven experience with a variety of modern frontend frameworks and tools (e.g.Vue.js, React, Bootstrap, webpack).
- Strong understanding of Node.js & npm.
- Understanding and experience with RESTful web services and API design, using C# web API backends.
- Experience working with .NET stack.
- 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.
- Approval workflow experience
About Janes
In a world crowded with increasingly unreliable information, our customers require timely, verified, validated, unbiased, and relevant defense, threat, and equipment intelligence. The interconnectivity of Janes assured open-source intelligence and analysis enables us to provide you with the unique insights required to make mission-critical decisions.
Our Purpose
To improve global security through trusted intelligence.
Our Vision
The trusted global agency for open-source defense intelligence.
Our Mission
The Janes stamp of trust means supplying our customers with timely, validated, unbiased, and relevant intelligence in a world crowded with increasingly unreliable information.
With an unmatched legacy of more than 120 years, Janes has adapted, expanded, and developed its unique tradecraft whilst transitioning from a traditional military publisher to the leading global agency for open-source intelligence.
Today Janes partners with global government agencies and leading military manufacturers across the world and is at the forefront of analysis in the open-source intelligence domain.
While open-source data is readily available to analysts and decision makers, it can be unmanageable in structure and volume, is not assured, and can be manipulated either intentionally or unintentionally. Our human-centric tradecraft, developed over 120 years, delivers the highest levels of assurance.
