Senior Java Software Engineer
| Posting date: | 19 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,946 to £80,664 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | S3 7UF |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 448143/6 |
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 Java 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 Software Engineers are skilled practitioners and role models for software craft within DWP. You will develop and maintain software products that make up citizen and organisation facing services and contribute towards their design.
You will be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build and be able to affect change in the on-going robustness and resilience of those products.
You will work within, and contribute to, the overall Software Development Lifecycle Process as part of a multi-functional Agile delivery team focused on one or more products.
Our Software Engineers are skilled practitioners and role models for software craft within DWP.
You will:
- Work as a leader within one or more multidisciplinary agile delivery teams,
- Be responsible for the Line management, coaching and mentoring other engineers.
- Promote software engineering practices and establishing collaborative team cultures that produce world class software solutions.
- Use your skills in software design principles, patterns and paradigms to produce software products used by millions of people.
- Focusing on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code you and your teams produce.
- Building robust and accessible User Interfaces (UIs) that work for as many users as possible, regardless of their needs
- Building and consuming APIs, with a focus on an API first design approach.
- Monitoring system robustness, resilience and stability.
- Collaborating with other areas to help build comprehensive suites of automated tests to improve product quality.
- Lead and participating directly in agile ceremonies and contributing ideas.
- Promote and support the following of best practice and guide our teams on how to deliver quality software products.
- Help design and support the strategies for building reusable libraries and services.
- Support Software Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance.
- Support and set the strategic direction for product team(s) and the wider Software Engineering community.
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