15350 - Senior Developer
| Posting date: | 02 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £58,511 to £70,725 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £58,511 - £65,329, London salary range is £63,343 - £70,725. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 15350 |
Summary
Senior Developer
Location: National*
Closing Date: 15th March 2026
Interviews: w/c 30th March 2026
Grade: 7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary:
London: £63,343 - £70,725 (which may include an allowance up to £10,532)
National: £58,511 - £65,329 (which may include an allowance up to £10,639)
Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Perm
Vacancy number: 15350
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior Developers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Central Digital team.
This role aligns against Software Developer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior Software Developer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for offenders through innovative digital solutions.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Developer at the MoJ you will have technical and people responsibilities.
Technical:
Securely designing, building and maintaining APIs, services and systems
Working on pre-existing codebases
Improving the resilience and stability of software
Applying practices to enable continuous delivery
People:
Developing and influencing people via line management duties, informal and formal coaching, and mentoring
Supporting lead developers in building high performing teams
Helping to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Collaboration:
You’ll collaborate closely with user researchers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects, and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
Technologies:
We use a range of technologies and we’re looking for people who have experience of building web applications or back-end systems in an object-oriented language, and love learning new languages and frameworks.
Application Code: Ruby
CI/CD: Circle CI, GitHub Actions
Monitoring: Sentry
Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker
Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
Web Interfaces: GOV.UK and MoJ Design Systems
Front-End Development:
We value a deep understanding of web technologies, emphasizing semantic HTML, performant CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript. Accessibility is a core consideration across all our services.
We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you’re part of our team, and do not require an exact match in your experience of languages. Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technologies we use, and a complete list of services that we build and maintain. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development.
Our community:
We currently have over 200 experienced developers who make up the engineering community across the MoJ. You will coach and mentor junior colleagues and take part in informal support networks with your peers. You will be encouraged to play an active role in the engineering community and culture.
We take the responsibility of supportive and effective line management very seriously. We will value the skills you bring to the civil service and help you to build on them. When the time is right, we will support moving between teams or government departments to learn different technologies, or take on more responsibility, according to your career goals.
Take a look at our developer blog and Justice Digital blog to get a sense of our work and culture.
Career Development:
We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Location: National*
Closing Date: 15th March 2026
Interviews: w/c 30th March 2026
Grade: 7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary:
London: £63,343 - £70,725 (which may include an allowance up to £10,532)
National: £58,511 - £65,329 (which may include an allowance up to £10,639)
Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Perm
Vacancy number: 15350
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior Developers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Central Digital team.
This role aligns against Software Developer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior Software Developer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for offenders through innovative digital solutions.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Developer at the MoJ you will have technical and people responsibilities.
Technical:
Securely designing, building and maintaining APIs, services and systems
Working on pre-existing codebases
Improving the resilience and stability of software
Applying practices to enable continuous delivery
People:
Developing and influencing people via line management duties, informal and formal coaching, and mentoring
Supporting lead developers in building high performing teams
Helping to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Collaboration:
You’ll collaborate closely with user researchers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects, and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
Technologies:
We use a range of technologies and we’re looking for people who have experience of building web applications or back-end systems in an object-oriented language, and love learning new languages and frameworks.
Application Code: Ruby
CI/CD: Circle CI, GitHub Actions
Monitoring: Sentry
Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker
Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
Web Interfaces: GOV.UK and MoJ Design Systems
Front-End Development:
We value a deep understanding of web technologies, emphasizing semantic HTML, performant CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript. Accessibility is a core consideration across all our services.
We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you’re part of our team, and do not require an exact match in your experience of languages. Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technologies we use, and a complete list of services that we build and maintain. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development.
Our community:
We currently have over 200 experienced developers who make up the engineering community across the MoJ. You will coach and mentor junior colleagues and take part in informal support networks with your peers. You will be encouraged to play an active role in the engineering community and culture.
We take the responsibility of supportive and effective line management very seriously. We will value the skills you bring to the civil service and help you to build on them. When the time is right, we will support moving between teams or government departments to learn different technologies, or take on more responsibility, according to your career goals.
Take a look at our developer blog and Justice Digital blog to get a sense of our work and culture.
Career Development:
We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!