Job Vacancy Senior Software Developer - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - G7
England
Government Digital & Data
Job position Senior Software Developer - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - G7
Share this job
As a Senior Software Developer, you'll:
Develop high-quality software following the clean architecture design pattern
Follow development best-practice, including regular pair programming and TDD
Maintain the live service, keeping it reliable and secure through monitoring and active management of the production infrastructure
Build up a robust automated test suite to support our continuous deployment environment
Work collaboratively with a range of disciplines including product managers, designers and user researchers, as well as other developers, to meet the needs of users of the service
Take a leadership role within the technical team, which may include line management of other Developers
Be on the rota for regularly providing second-line technical support for issues raised on the service helpdesk
Candidate profile
As a Senior Software Developer, you'll have:
Experience of full stack development of cloud-based web applications
Experience of developing in at least one of Python, Ruby, Rust and TypeScript
Experience building RESTful APIs
Experience of building accessible user interfaces
Experience using SQL to work with relational databases
Experience of working with a live production system, including monitoring for performance and potential security issues, and triaging problems
Experience of working on agile projects as part of a multidisciplinary team
Working environment
Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton
About the jobJob summaryHere at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives. Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we’re all part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you’re thinking of joining us, there’s never been a more exciting time.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join a large multidisciplinary team with a wide range of stakeholders. We need people who want to be involved in all aspects of our multidisciplinary team’s activity, from working with our user researcher to design, prototyping, and planning.
As a Senior Software Developer, day-to-day you will pair-program across the whole stack from frontend to backend to produce clean, high quality code. Experience of test-driven development is expected, as is as is experience of building RESTful APIs. We are particularly looking for experience with Python or Ruby. You can find out more about how we write software in the MHCLG Way .
Find out more about our Digital teams and what they are working on through our .
Please note that MHCLG do not offer visa sponsorship and applicants will need a valid visa for the duration of your employment.
Apply to this job!
Find your next job from +1,000 jobs!
-
Manage your visibility
Salary, remote work... Define all the criteria that are important to you.
-
Get discovered
Recruiters come directly to look for their future hires in our CV library.
-
Join a community
Connect with like-minded tech and IT professionals on a daily basis through our forum.
Senior Software Developer - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - G7
Government Digital & Data