Description
We are seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join our Courts AI team within HM Courts and Tribunals Service. You will be part of a small, hands-on engineering team that builds and ships software to improve the courts' operations.
As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will:
- Build and ship products used across the HMCTS estate, including web services, integrations, data tooling, and models and agents.
- Work in the field, spending real time in courts and with operational teams, watching how work actually happens, and co-designing with the people doing it.
- Lead technical delivery end to end, setting the technical direction for net new projects, making architecture and implementation decisions, and staying hands-on from framing the problem through building, deployment, adoption, and ongoing operation.
- Make the case with evidence, measuring whether a thing worked, and being honest when it didn't.
The ideal candidate will be:
- Public service motivated, with a desire to make a tangible difference to how justice is delivered.
- Deeply technical, with substantial experience building and running software in production.
- A pragmatist, able to identify the meaningful, viable paths forward that enable shipping today.
- Comfortable with high agency and ambiguity, and able to navigate open-ended problem spaces.
- A bridge-builder, able to interface with a huge variety of stakeholders and hold technical design conversations and conversations with court clerks.
Essential skills:
- Substantial experience building and running software in production.
- Breadth across the stack, with comfort somewhere between infrastructure-as-code and a user-facing interface.
- Experience integrating with systems you don't control, including older ones.
- Ability to work effectively in a complex organisation.
- Sound judgement about where AI genuinely helps, and where it adds risk without adding value.
Desirable Criteria:
- Cloud and infrastructure experience , Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, Terraform.
- Experience deploying LLM-based systems in production.
- Working with sensitive or regulated data.
- Data engineering.
- Startup, scale-up, or other high-ownership environments.
- Prior public sector delivery.
Benefits:
- Salary of £71,381 - £85,257 per year.
- Access to learning and development.
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options.
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Annual Leave.
- Public Holidays.
- Season Ticket Advance.
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