Senior Software Engineer JavaScript/Node.JS
| Posting date: | 09 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,557 to £78,517 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 412645/5 |
Summary
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!
We’re looking for outstanding Senior Software Engineers who have a strong background in JavaScript/Node.JS, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. Be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
Our Engineers build and run applications as part of a multi-functional agile delivery teams.
What really excites the successful candidate is problem-solving and the opportunity to deliver innovative technology that carries real value for users.
The candidate will be expected to draw value from collaboration with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
Our Senior JavaScript/Node.JS 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.
As a skilled practitioner you will work as a leader within one or more multidisciplinary agile delivery teams, Line managing and mentoring other engineers. You will promote software engineering practices and establishing collaborative team cultures that produce world class software solutions.
You will use your skills in software design principles, patterns and paradigms to produce software products used by millions of people.
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.
Your experience of containerised microservices deployed into cloud environments will mean you can be effective immediately, with a solid understanding of our most common deployment patterns.
We expect our software engineers to practice TDD and as a Senior Software Engineer you will be highly skilled in the practice and promote its use across the engineering community.
You’ll share a brilliant environment with colleagues from across DWP and wider government, making it the perfect place to collaborate and build networks.
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