Job Vacancy Senior Developer - Government Digital Service - G7

We’re interested in people who have:

• strong experience building and operating serverless services on AWS, using technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge and Step Functions.

• strong TypeScript and Node.js development skills, using modern tooling, testing frameworks and development practices.

• experience working with AWS services such as S3, IAM, VPC networking (ideal), SSM Parameter Store / Secrets Manager and CloudWatch.

• experience developing event-driven and asynchronous systems, integrating services through queues, events and APIs.

• experience implementing and maintaining infrastructure as code, ideally using AWS CDK.

• the ability to build secure, well-tested and maintainable services, following modern engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD and observability.

• the ability to work across a mixture of product stages - greenfield development, evolving services into operational products, and maintaining established live services

• the ability to bring an operational mindset to development, considering reliability, observability and maintainability from the start

• the ability to work effectively as a senior engineer within a team, contributing to technical discussions and helping shape implementation approaches

• the ability to support and mentor more junior developers, helping to improve team capability and engineering practices

• experience developing and operating large-scale web services

• experience building microservice or serverless applications and/or running applications in the cloud

• the ability to rapidly research and learn new tools, techniques and paradigms to solve technical problems

• the ability to use testing, prototyping and discovery techniques to validate ideas and inform development decisions

• experience working in agile environments and iterating on both software and team processes

• a good understanding of security considerations in operational services from end to end

• experience building robust and accessible systems that work for as many users as possible

• the ability to be comfortable contributing to technical discussions and evaluating technology choices with their team

• the ability to apply and promote engineering practices such as Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps methodologies

Manchester

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

1. joining up public sector services

2. harnessing the power of AI for the public good

3. strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure

4. elevating leadership and investing in talent

5. funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation

6. committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (), the world-leading and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need

Data Services for Personalised Channels

This role will be part of a new team at GDS, the focus specifically on developing the services that abstracts personalised data logistics for product teams, enabling them to deliver personalised features without worrying about underlying cross government data complexity.

The work is split into four main areas, data exchange between departments, a serverless platform to power the  personalised channels, a platform to store  personalised channel data and providing support for a new government digital mailbox.  Reporting into the Engineering Manager, you’ll work within and support the wider engineering teams as well as collaborate with peers including Technical Architects to deliver a user-centric, highly scalable, resilient, and performant platform

It is expected that this role will involve outreach to other government departments, so an ability to communicate to a wide set of stakeholders, along with the ability to manage many work streams concurrently is a must