Senior Java Engineer
| Posting date: | 11 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £55,557 to £78,517 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2025 |
| Location: | B1 2AX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 398730/1 |
Summary
Are you a Senior Java Software Engineer looking to utilise cutting edge technologies to develop and deliver products?
Do you want to use your skills and experience to help deliver high value applications and processes to a wide variety of stakeholders, supporting DWP’s digital transformation?
If so, this is a fantastic opportunity to join an exciting, high profile team delivering real business value and improving the experience and outcomes for our many customers!
Within Working Age Services Digital, we are responsible for a number of existing services which support the core of society and is the department’s highest profile benefit service, Universal Credit.
Let’s be clear about the impact of your work the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy aiming to become more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, and transforming some of our service’s monolithic architectures into microservices.
Our Senior Java Software Engineers lead and set the strategy as well as build our products and applications with researchers, testers, architects, analysts and designers as part of multi-functional agile delivery teams.
What really excites us is problem-solving. We have a unique opportunity to deliver innovative technology that carries real value for millions of users.
Our teams draw value from collaboration, actively seek input from colleagues and value ideas from across disciplines, grades and job titles over hierarchy.
You’ll also be part of a supportive Engineering community of practice, with hundreds of engineering experts from across the UK united by passion and purpose. We’ll give you the tools and time to build your capability, with coaching, mentoring, qualifications and formal learning, meetups or whatever else works for you.
You will be a leader in our team, you will coach and mentor Java Engineers.
We are extending our already skilled and creative Java Engineering team.
You’ll share a brilliant environment with colleagues from across DWP and wider government, making it the perfect place to collaborate and build networks.
Check out these blogs from DWP Digital - Meet the Engineer and A day in the life of a Java Engineer.
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