# Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Ref: 24113)

**Company**: HM Courts and Tribunals Service
**Location**: Stafford, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 71,381 - 85,257 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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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## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- Systems Design
- Systems Integration
- User Focus
- Programming

### Nice to have
- Cloud
- Infrastructure
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- LLM-based systems
- Data Engineering

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