Senior Software Developer

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for Senior Developers to build and maintain software to deliver a complete service for users. Salary between £59,634 to £79,133 (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits including 27% pension contribution. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.

About the role
As a Senior Software Developer in the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) function in Department for Business and Trade (DBT), you will build and maintain software to deliver a complete service for users. By understanding the whole system, you will plan and lead development on sets of related user stories. In addition, you will be expected to coach and mentor more junior colleagues and find ways to improve the stability and resilience of the systems you work on. Collaborating with colleagues in other disciplines to understand what needs to be built, you'll deliver individually and as a team using agile methodologies and be focused on rapid delivery of high-quality digital services.

You'll be influential in shaping the Software Development community of practice in DDaT as a champion of modern standards, test-driven development, pair programming, prototyping, and continuous delivery. You'll operate the production services you build and be able to maintain and support a live service for users.

Main responsibilities

You will be an experienced software developer who can:

• Deliver high quality user-centred features and services within an agile environment.
• Support the community of practice within DDaT, fostering code ownership and quality.
• Support the transformation of DDaT into a modern centre for agile development.
• Mentor and coach colleagues to deliver to our standards, guided by industry best practices.
• Support developer hiring, shape our in-house team, and help make it more diverse and inclusive.
• Line-manage developers to deliver results, learn and grow, and progress their careers.
• Ensure runbooks enable your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) colleagues to support applications and/or services.
• In office hours support, and sometimes out of hours (for which you'll be paid an allowance).

Skills and Experience

You will need to have demonstrable skills and experience of:

• Python as your primary programming language, and have experience in development and maintenance of Python web applications and services, using frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, Flask, or serverless architectures
• Delivering code quality by utilising Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices as part of your code development work
• Fluency in SQL querying, and diagnosing database related issues, preferable in Postgres or MySQL
• Exposure of using monitoring and alerting tools, such as Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, and/or AWS CloudWatch
• Delivering user-centred features and services within an agile environment using practices such as Scrum or Kanban
• Experience in communicating technical and non technical information to diverse stakeholders
• Experience of direct/indirect line management, coaching and mentoring junior colleagues

It is desirable that you have:

These aren't necessary but it would be ideal if you had experience of the following.

• Developed applications or platforms using Python Django framework
• Frontend development using JavaScript, preferably React framework

This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn.

Benefits

If you join DBT, you will get:

• 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 27%
• 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

If you are an experienced Developer looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Keesha Paulson at Inspire People on in complete confidence for further information.