Frontend Developer

Frontend Engineer Fully Remote Inside IR35 9 month contract (good chance it will be extended) Pay up to £300 per day Frontend technologies : Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSP, NodeJS, NPM We’re looking for Software Development Engineers to work with experienced teams in Berlin, and deliver on our next generation of product and services from the ground up. We’re looking for a passionate, team-oriented, and talented engineer who has experience building innovative, sophisticated applications that customers love. Accessibility (1 L4 SDE) The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a Directive of the European Union (EU) that establishes minimum accessibility (a11y) requirements for a broad range of consumer products, services, and information; and requires all EU member states to transpose these requirements to national law and enforce compliance from 28-June-2025. Deliverables To comply with this law, the Reviews front-end teams have 490 issues to fix. Out of these 490, we believe that about 5 are considered “hard”, i.e., require significant engineering effort or coordination across multiple services. The responsibilities of the third-party vendor staff will be to own 485 “easy” / “medium” fixes, involving: • Ramping up on accessibility and services to be remediated • Working with the POC to resolve all ambiguities with the triaged tickets: When accessibility defects are identified in shared components, employees should notify POCs to advocate for resolutions from AUI teams. • Signing up for Wa11y Q&A sessions in Accessibility office hours when they encounter technical challenges • Fixing the accessibility tickets which includes changing the code, creating any string translation requests as necessary, testing it & creating code reviews. • Ensuring code reviews are merged and after they reach prod, signing up for Wa11y Accessibility office hours for Play With Sessions (PWS), to ensure all issues have been fixed. If new issues have been identified, they will also be responsible to re-iterate and fix the issues. • If an issue can’t be fixed, they will need to discuss with the team and request an exception. Skills The employees working on the accessibility tickets will need to have knowledge about the following: • Frontend technologies : Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSP, NodeJS, NPM • Strong onboarding skills and ability to rapidly understand new codebases • Good to have but not necessary : prior experiences leveraging web accessibility features, performing keyboard navigation testing, and working with screen readers If you are interested please apply or send your CV to luke.sandilandscpl.com