Job Vacancy C# .NET Software Developer - Department for Education - SEO

We'll assess you against the following essential criteria. 

• Demonstrable experience of software development using C# .NET along with SQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Experience working with technical teams to deliver user-focused services in an agile environment.

• Experience of good practices such as Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, and DevOps as well as modern development workflows, ideally using GitHub.

• Experience of good software design concepts such as OOD, SOLID and design patterns.

• Experience of RESTful API design and loosely coupled architectures.

• Experience of web application security.

Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT

These are exciting times at the Department for Education. In 2026 we'll continue to build more user-centred digital services for all our users, children, adults, and those in social care. 

As a software developer, you’ll be part of a team responsible for developing and supporting scalable, secure, and high-quality user-centric digital services. You will assist senior team members in the design of the services. And you will work closely with colleagues within multidisciplinary agile teams, that focus on delivering work iteratively and at pace. 

You will innovate to radically transform how public services are delivered and improved. 

If you are successful, you could be working in: 

• Submit Learner Data: This service supports the collection of learner, staff and funding data from FE and Skills providers, calculates funding and provides data downstream for the funding, payments and MI purposes.

• The Learning Records Service: this service supports enrolment and funding eligibility checks in the further education sector by providing the Unique Learner Number and the Personal Learning Record (PLR).  It collects data from Awarding Organisations to support the PLR and provides data for publications such as the school performance tables.