Senior Developer
| Posting date: | 01 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,313 to £66,423 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £60,850 to £69,960 (inclusive of London Weighting) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Remote working: | Fully remote |
| Company: | The National Lottery Heritage Fund |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.
We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.
Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK’s heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from The National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities.
We are currently recruiting for a full time Senior Developer on a permanent contract based as a homeworker in the UK.
The primary purpose of this post is building and iteratively improving user-centered digital services for the Heritage Fund. In practice this will mean services that have a front end on our website, and a back-end of private web-based admin interfaces. You will work with another Senior Developer and other developers, and together you will make all key choices around languages, frameworks, hosting services and deployment approaches.
The first project you will be working on is the continued implementation of the Heritage Fund’s grant management system. It is no understatement to say that this system is the heart of the Heritage Fund’s work, and the impact of delivering it successfully will be substantial. The system combines Salesforce with other web technologies, and your team will have direct control over the technology and design choices, as well as direct control over their implementation.
Team structure and working practices will be informed by the Government Digital Service’s service design manual, and teams will be sprint based and generally agile in nature.
If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.
Applications close on 14 October 2025.
Interviews are expected to take place on 27 October 2025.
Our Values
Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.
Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities
Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage
Collaborative by working and learning together
Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement
Flexible Working
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week at minimum. Time spent on site visits to projects or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days. The other days in the week employees may work from home.
Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for every vacancy. We always endeavour to make reasonable adjustments and special requirements can be discussed and arranged before an interview.
As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.
We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.
Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK’s heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from The National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities.
We are currently recruiting for a full time Senior Developer on a permanent contract based as a homeworker in the UK.
The primary purpose of this post is building and iteratively improving user-centered digital services for the Heritage Fund. In practice this will mean services that have a front end on our website, and a back-end of private web-based admin interfaces. You will work with another Senior Developer and other developers, and together you will make all key choices around languages, frameworks, hosting services and deployment approaches.
The first project you will be working on is the continued implementation of the Heritage Fund’s grant management system. It is no understatement to say that this system is the heart of the Heritage Fund’s work, and the impact of delivering it successfully will be substantial. The system combines Salesforce with other web technologies, and your team will have direct control over the technology and design choices, as well as direct control over their implementation.
Team structure and working practices will be informed by the Government Digital Service’s service design manual, and teams will be sprint based and generally agile in nature.
If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.
Applications close on 14 October 2025.
Interviews are expected to take place on 27 October 2025.
Our Values
Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.
Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities
Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage
Collaborative by working and learning together
Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement
Flexible Working
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week at minimum. Time spent on site visits to projects or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days. The other days in the week employees may work from home.
Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for every vacancy. We always endeavour to make reasonable adjustments and special requirements can be discussed and arranged before an interview.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.