Senior Back End Engineer

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. Whilst the team primarily develops in Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working of 2-3 days per week in the office, flexible working options and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (up to £83,778 for London), including allowances, dependent on location and technical skills assessed at interview., * Design, build and operate reliable, secure and scalable cloud platform services supporting critical digital products.

• Develop and maintain platform tooling, automation, observability, monitoring and CI/CD capabilities.
• Build software solutions using Python and modern engineering practices.
• Write clean, maintainable code and infrastructure-as-code solutions to support service delivery.
• Embed Site Reliability Engineering principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and continual service improvement.
• Support live service operations, incident management, troubleshooting and platform resilience.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams and stakeholders whilst coaching and mentoring colleagues.

• Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language.
• Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes.
• Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• Python and Django
• AWS and Azure
• Docker, ECS and ECR
• GitHub Actions, CodePipeline and CodeBuild
• Datadog and Logstash

• Hybrid working with 2-3 days per week in the office.
• Full-time, part-time and flexible working options.
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days with service.
• Three paid volunteering days each year.
• Inclusive and diverse working culture.
• Employee benefits programme including Cycle to Work.