Description
We are seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer II to join our Courts AI team at HM Courts and Tribunals Service. You will work on projects that make a tangible difference to how justice is delivered.
Job Summary As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer II, you will be part of a small, hands-on engineering team that builds and ships software to improve the courts. You will work closely with court staff, digital teams, and the judiciary to develop practical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Work as an engineer on projects under the direction of a technical lead, helping to ship new capability to users.
- Contribute across the stack, from infrastructure and backend services to data, integrations, and user-facing interfaces.
- Build and improve products used across the HMCTS estate, such as web services, integrations, data tooling, and models and agents.
- Spend time in courts and with operational teams, watching how work actually happens, and co-designing with the people doing it.
- Support delivery from ideation to deployment, and take ownership of outcomes.
- Measure the effectiveness of solutions and be honest about what works and what doesn't.
Requirements
- Experience building software in production.
- Willingness to work across different parts of the stack.
- Some experience with integrating with systems you don't control.
- Ability to work constructively in a complex organisation.
- Developing judgement about where AI genuinely helps.
Desirable Skills
- Cloud and infrastructure experience (Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, Terraform).
- Exposure to LLM-based systems.
- Data engineering experience.
- Prior experience in startup, scale-up, or product engineering environments.
- Prior public sector delivery experience.
What We Offer
- Salary: GBP 58,511 - 70,725 per year
- Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Access to learning and development
- Flexible working options
- Annual leave and public holidays
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