Description
We’re recruiting for a Senior Full Stack Developer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Justice Redact team. You will help us roll out a new service that will improve how personal and sensitive information is redacted from Offender Subject Access Requests (OSARs).
The role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys working in an environment where requirements are evolving, problems are sometimes ambiguous, and good solutions are developed collaboratively with users and the wider team.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop, enhance and maintain the Justice Redact service as it moves through the Digital Delivery Lifecycle from Beta to Live.
- Build new features and functionality to support the rollout of the service to more OSARs users and respond to evolving operational needs.
- Work directly with operational users to understand problems and identify technical solutions to understand problems, test solutions and identify opportunities to improve the service.
- Take ownership of development tasks and contributing to technical design, architecture and making pragmatic decisions about technical approaches.
- Work across the front end and back end, building robust, scalable and maintainable software.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to automate testing, continuous integration and delivery, code reviews and other good software engineering practices.
- Collaborate closely with Data Scientists, DevOps, Product, Design, User Research and Delivery colleagues to solve problems and deliver user-centred technical solutions.
Person Specification:
- Delivering complex software: proven experience of delivering a complex software solution into production, including your contribution to the design, development, testing and deployment of the service.
- Full-stack engineering and technical practice: experience of developing and maintaining software across the back end and web front end, including automated testing, APIs and modern continuous integration and delivery practices.
- Collaborative problem solving: demonstrate how you have worked with a multidisciplinary team to understand a complex problem, make technical decisions and deliver a pragmatic solution, particularly where requirements or the problem was not fully defined.
- Production software development: strong experience developing production services using Typescript, React (Next.js), and Python (FastAPI), with the ability to work confidently across the front end and back end.
- API and data modelling: experience designing, developing and maintaining REST APIs and data models, including experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Cloud infrastructure and operations: hands-on experience deploying, operating and optimising cloud-based services, ideally using AWS services such as S3, SQS, RDS, and applications deployed to Kubernetes.