Senior Developer
| Posting date: | 06 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £60,300 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 430760 |
Summary
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: Power Automate, Java, Node.js, Python, Scala, .NET.
Frontend: Power Apps, React, JavaScript, Typescript.
Data: Dataverse, Power BI, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra.
DevOps/Platforms: Azure, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform.
AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI.
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.
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: Power Automate, Java, Node.js, Python, Scala, .NET.
Frontend: Power Apps, React, JavaScript, Typescript.
Data: Dataverse, Power BI, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra.
DevOps/Platforms: Azure, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform.
AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI.
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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