Description
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day.
As a Senior Software Developer, you will play a key role in designing, building and running robust, maintainable software that meets the needs of our users. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, from understanding requirements and shaping technical solutions through to development, deployment and supporting services in production.
Main responsibilities
- Design, build, test and maintain high-quality software, delivering new functionality and improving existing services in line with agreed architecture and coding standards
- Work across the full software development lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring and production support
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to translate user needs and designs into working software, iterating services based on evidence and feedback
- Work closely with Technical Architects and other developers to make informed technical decisions and identify appropriate solutions to complex problems
- Develop and maintain REST APIs, web applications, microservices and containerised applications
- Build a strong understanding of the wider service, including dependencies, data and system interactions, to improve reliability and resolve underlying technical issues
- Investigate and resolve live service incidents, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable improvements
- Build and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines that support reliable software delivery
- Review code, share technical knowledge and support colleagues to improve quality and consistency across the team
- Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices, including exploring and prototyping potential solutions where appropriate
Person specification
- Strong experience developing REST APIs and/or web applications using Python and Django, with experience working with SQL
- Experience designing, building and supporting microservices and containerised applications using technologies such as Docker
- Experience developing web applications using technologies such as JSON, HTML, SCSS and JavaScript, and deploying or supporting services in AWS
- Experience working within an agile multidisciplinary team to design, build and iteratively improve digital services based on user needs
- Experience building and maintaining continuous integration and deployment pipelines to support reliable software delivery
- Experience supporting live services, including identifying, investigating and resolving incidents and implementing improvements to reliability
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days with service
- Three paid volunteering days a year
- An employee benefits programme including cycle to work