Software Developer

This role aligns against Software Developer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

As a Senior Software Developer on the returnship programme, you will contribute to building, improving and maintaining digital services that need to be secure, reliableand user-centred. You'll work in multidisciplinary teams and help promote good engineering practices.

As a Senior Software Developer on the Returnship Programme you'll:

• Design, build and maintain secure services (APIs, systems and applications), making sound engineering decisions that balance user needs, performance, resilience and security.

• Work confidently with existing codebases, improving quality, structure and maintainability.

• Improve the stability, resilience and operability of software by identifying and addressing technical risks early.

• Apply modern engineering practices that support continuous delivery, including automation, testing and safe deployment patterns.

• Collaborate across disciplines (for example: product, design, user research, delivery) to shape solutions through discovery, development and iteration.

• Help your team prioritise technical work, balancing new delivery with the needs of live services.

• Support and develop others through coaching, mentoring and technical leadership (line management may apply depending on role placement).

• Experience delivering large and/or complex software solutions.

• Experience building web applications or back-end systems using a modern object-oriented language, and confidence learning new languages.

• Experience using modern development practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and working safely with live services.

• A well established approach to software quality, including clean code, maintainable design, and appropriate documentation.

• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical decisions clearly.

• A systematic approach to problem solving and continuous improvement

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