Senior Software Developer
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,634 to £79,133 per year |
| Additional salary information: | (including allowances) London £63,248 to £79,133, National £59,634 to £75,618. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 408262/6 |
Summary
About us
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.
About the role
As a Senior Software Developer in the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) function in Department for Business and Trade (DBT), you will build and maintain software to deliver a complete service for users. By understanding the whole system, you will plan and lead development on sets of related user stories. In addition, you will be expected to coach and mentor more junior colleagues and find ways to improve the stability and resilience of the systems you work on. Collaborating with colleagues in other disciplines to understand what needs to be built, you’ll deliver individually and as a team using agile methodologies and be focused on rapid delivery of high-quality digital services.
You’ll be influential in shaping the Software Development community of practice in DDaT as a champion of modern standards, test-driven development, pair programming, prototyping, and continuous delivery. You’ll operate the production services you build and be able to maintain and support a live service for users.
You will be an experienced software developer who can:
- Deliver high quality user-centred features and services within an agile environment.
- Support the community of practice within DDaT, fostering code ownership and quality.
- Support the transformation of DDaT into a modern centre for agile development.
- Mentor and coach colleagues to deliver to our standards, guided by industry best practices.
- Support developer hiring, shape our in-house team, and help make it more diverse and inclusive.
- Line-manage developers to deliver results, learn and grow, and progress their careers.
- Ensure runbooks enable your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) colleagues to support applications and/or services.
- In office hours support, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance).
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