Senior Software Engineer

Join DWP as a Senior Java Engineer and help build modern, impactful services while growing your career in a collaborative community.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

• Experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) practices and techniques.
• Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.
• Expert knowledge and extensive experience of developing on cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.
• Knowledge and experience of SQL and NoSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB.
• Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.
• Knowledge and extensive experience of modern Java technologies, frameworks, standards and design principles within large scale systems., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .

Pay: We offer competitive pay of £57,946 - £80,664, based on our assessment of your skills and experience at interview.

Pension: You'll get a pension with employer contributions of 28.97%.

Holidays: Starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time and the the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket.
• Professional development, mentoring and progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture:

• 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards.
• Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024.
• Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025.
• Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards.

Our Senior Java Engineers to work with freedom and autonomy. We write code and make decisions which shape the future engineering landscape of DWP. We develop, build and support products and applications as part of multi-functional agile delivery teams, alongside researchers, analysts, designers, architects, testers and more. Together we use the latest tools and technologies to build applications and products that work for millions of users. You'll need experience with modern Java, TDD/BDD, SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud-native engineering and delivering high-quality systems using open-source technologies. You'll design, build and maintain stable, resilient software using Java, microservices and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. You'll develop APIs, create accessible user interfaces and contribute to automated test suites. As well as doing the hands-on stuff you love, you'll be one of our expert leaders. You'll set best practice and build capability among our more junior devs and engineers, and across a supportive engineering community of over 200.