Developer

Posting date:	29 December 2025
Salary:	£46,062 per year
Additional salary information:	National: £46,062 London: £50,182 You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £11,338.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	11 January 2026
Location:	Croydon
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	441354/1

Summary

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.

You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions for citizens and Home Office teams. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

Where business needs allow some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

The Developer works on software components that form part of a product. You will be involved in designing, running and improving software that meets user needs. You will typically work under the guidance of senior colleagues in your team. 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.

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: Node.js, Python
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular 
• Data: Redis, Mongodb
• DevOps/Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• AI: Github Copilot, OpenAI

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