# Forward Deployed Software Engineer II (Ref: 24211)

**Company**: HM Courts and Tribunals Service
**Location**: Stafford, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 58,511 - 70,725 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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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## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- System Integration
- Cloud Computing
- Data Engineering

### Nice to have
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- LLM-based systems

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