Backend Developer

• Roles available at multiple seniority levels roles available - suitable for applicants with 3-10+ years’ experience
• Mandatory Requirement: Active UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

Are you able to guide defence users through complex technology challenges, and rapidly develop new solutions to meet defence needs? We are looking for individuals to help digitise defence with new thinking on technology capabilities and adoption processes, and someone who is sensitively able to combine the latest thinking with traditional military functions.

You will guide our clients through their digital journey from strategy through to a working and breathing environment supporting their most critical services.

Building robust and scalable digital platforms that enable teams to deliver modern micro-services based and digital solutions to continuously improve environments through automation and infrastructure-as-code.

You will work with colleagues across back and front-end developers, creatives and UX experts, integration teams and the client themselves.

In your role, you can expect to:

• Help deliver features end to end. We don’t throw our work “over the wall,” everyone is expected to pull together to design new features and figure out bugs.

• Deliver cloud native and containerised applications using technologies including AWS Lambda, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Python FastAPI, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

• Build solutions as part of a DevSecOps and Agile ecosystem supported by tooling including Atlassian, Jenkins, GitLab, OWASP and AWS componentry.

• Ensure your solution works in a reliable and resilient way using Site Reliability Engineering methods to increase availability while reducing costs and callouts.

• Help the client and end users to understand trade-offs when making product decisions and explain why you would do things a certain way.

• Keep learning! We are a learning organisation and have a great community of architects and back-end developers who run workshops together, share the best articles they find on Slack, and contribute to the engineering culture.

All applicants must be UK security cleared to Developed Vetting level.

Candidates will have hands on experience with one or more technologies relevant to these areas:

Overall, you’re an ideal person and problem solver as well as a hands-on doer - that’s important. And you know it takes a mix of people to do amazing work, so you love collaborating with and learning from people with different skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. If you have an interesting or unusual mix of skills yourself, even better.

We’re looking for people who are natural initiative-takers who bring out the best in others, are brilliant listeners and can help us grow our business without compromising standards, integrity, or culture.

• Experience in software development and an evident passion for writing code.

• An understanding of the fundamentals of software development in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript and/or Python, along with good overall engineering patterns and practices and be able to explain these clearly.

• Demonstrable experience and understanding of working in teams, particularly in agile methodologies such as Scrum & Kanban.

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters., Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients’ become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

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Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through worldclass development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead., A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.