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Senior Developer

Job details
Posting date: 22 January 2025
Salary: £60,300 to £66,330 per year
Additional salary information: New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum: £60,300 Salary for national roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £20,100
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 04 February 2025
Location: Sheffield
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 387180/2

Summary

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.

You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions for citizens and Home Office teams. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

The Senior Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.

You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.

The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

Tools and Technologies we use:

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

  • Backend: C#, Python
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB
  • DevOps: Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps
  • Other: Azure OpenAI Studio, Power Platform, PowerBI

What you will do

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

  • delivering secure, reliable and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed.
  • evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations.
  • defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance.
  • evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment.
  • helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services.

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

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