Job summary
Do you have a passion for delivering user focused digital services and using the latest technology to deliver solutions to a global audience of millions?
Are you enthusiastic about clean code, well designed software and mentoring others to enable them to work at their best?
If the answer to the above is yes, we would love you to join us and be part of our team to help us build the future of our Digital Services!
We are looking for Software Developers with Java/Spring and/or Typescript/Node.js experience.
Our current technology stack is: Java, Spring, Typescript, Node.js, Kafka, MongoDB, Oracle, AWS, Docker.
Watch this video to find out more about working in Digital at Companies House
Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.
Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work
Please note:
- Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.
- Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign. You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC.
- The majority of our teams are primarily based in our Cardiff head office. The teams are a mix of hybrid and fully remote workers. Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not within a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. If you are located in a reasonable distance to one our offices, you will receive a hybrid contract aligned to one of our offices.
Please see 'Things you need to know' and 'Where will you be working' sections below for more information.
Job description
As a Senior Developer you'll join one of our many Agile Software Development teams. A typical team is made up of an agile delivery manager, developers, testers, user researchers, analysts and a product owner.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Designing efficient and maintainable solutions
- Contributing and adhering to our technical standards
- Mentoring software engineers in your team and the wider software development community
- Maximising the automated test coverage to help move to continuous delivery
- Ensuring code quality through code reviews
What it is like to work in Companies House
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. Wherever possible we offer flexible working arrangements. We'll support you to meet other commitments and help you strike a better work-life balance. We’re keen to create an environment that works for everyone, and we particularly encourage applications from different underrepresented demographics.
Half a day a week is devoted to Innovation time where everyone in digital can work on whatever they choose, be that building new applications, trying new technologies or working towards certifications, it’s up to you. In addition to this we offer lots of opportunities to have training as and when it is needed. We trust and empower our staff to work in a way which best suits them.
Companies House is an award-winning employer, with an Investors in People Platinum Award we are at the forefront in ensuring our staff reach their full potential in building brilliant services on cutting-edge technology. You’ll be joining our Software Engineering Profession at a time of transformation and you will be a part of shaping the future of our department. We use Agile Methodologies and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
Person specification
We are looking for the following experience and skills which will be assessed at sift and interview.
- Working knowledge of programming tools, frameworks, and techniques in at least one of the following ecosystems: Java/Spring or Typescript/Node.js (you will be expected to learn to become proficient in both once in post as required according to business needs).
- Experience of developing software throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs.
- A passion for high quality, well-crafted code, and associated tooling.
- A degree in computing or similar would be an advantage, or equivalent industry experience.
- You embrace continuous integration and have a continuous delivery mindset.
- You are patient and can help support and mentor others with different degrees of expertise to maximise their potential.
- You have excellent communication skills and can help explain complicated technical issues to individuals who don’t share the same technical experience.
- Knowledge of any of the following technologies / tools: Concourse CI, Kafka, MongoDB, Oracle SQL, Docker, Terraform.
- Knowledge of microservice driven architecture.
- Knowledge of developing in the Cloud.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Developing Self and Others
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Systems Integration
- Development Process Optimisation
- User Focus
- Programming and Build
- System Design
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £40,398, Companies House contributes £11,703 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
We celebrate diversity...
As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at application stage, or if you'd like to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk.
Where will you be working?
We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage. Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not within a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. If you are located at a reasonable distance to one of our offices, you will receive a hybrid contract aligned to one of our offices.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
In your application form we’d like you to:
- Tell us about your employment history, key responsibilities, projects worked on and achievements specifically relevant to the role responsibilities and experience required as detailed above. We're keen to know the depth of your skills and experience so please include any details to demonstrate these. We’d specifically like to know what projects you worked on, for how long, what was your role, what technologies you used and project outcomes.
- Write a personal statement of 500 words where you demonstrate how you meet the required experience including work-based examples to demonstrate your level of skill, to cover these role requirements:
- Working knowledge of programming tools, frameworks, and techniques in at least one of the following ecosystems: Java/Spring or Typescript/Node.
- Experience of developing software throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs.
- A degree in computing or similar would be an advantage, or equivalent industry experience.
What will the process look like?
Sift
- Once the advert has closed we will sift applications - this involves reading through them all, please bear with us as this can take some time.
- We may raise the score required if we receive a high number of applications.
- At sift we may choose to take through the highest performing candidates to the next stage. If, after the final stage is completed and roles are unfilled, we will proceed to invite lower scoring candidates to interview.
- Candidates will be asked to provide evidence of qualifications and any predicted grades before interview.
- At sift candidates will be assessed against your answers to the following criteria:
- Working knowledge of programming tools, frameworks, and techniques in at least one of the following ecosystems: Java/Spring or Typescript/Node.
- Experience of developing software throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs.
- A degree in computing or similar would be an advantage, or equivalent industry experience.
Presentation stage
- Successful candidates from the sift stage will be invited to deliver a 10 minute presentation (with 5 minute follow-up discussion), which will conducted using Microsoft Teams.
- The presentation topic will be released in the confirmation email once you have booked a presentation timeslot.
- The presentation stage will be assessing Behaviour: Communicating and influencing. We're keen to see you can research something relatively unfamiliar and present it in a short presentation.
Interview
- Successful candidates from the presentation stage will be invited to attend a virtual interview, which will conducted using Microsoft Teams.
- We use a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you.
- We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the advert and Strengths.
- As part of the interview, you will be asked to complete a written coding exercise. Details will be emailed to you 1 hour before your interview start time. You'll have 1 hour to work through the activity and then you'll join the Teams call at your interview start time. You'll be asked to screen share, discussing the exercise with the panel and answering some live questions to demonstrate your level of skill. This will be assessing Technical Skill: Programming and build.
- A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
- If after interview you are not found appointable at the advertised grade you may be offered the lower grade role if you are considered to meet the skills, experience and behaviours for the lower level. The benchmark for appointing to the lower grade is set at the start of each campaign. All offers will be made in merit.
- Candidates who pass the interview but do not score highly enough for an offer for Senior Software Developer may be considered for Software Developer opportunities.
Key dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)
- Closing date - 10 August 2025 (at 23:55)
- Sifting - 11-13 August 2025
- Presentations - 18&19 August 2025
- Interviews - w/c 1 September & w/c 8 September 2025
We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as your names and age) from your employment history and personal statement.
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Sponsorship
Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Companies House holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship, your application may be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment withdrawn.
Security clearance
Successful candidates must pass a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before they can be appointed.
BPSS is an entry level security check. It uses the Police National Computer (PNC) to make sure a candidate has no convictions. The check returns evidence of any current criminal record and un-spent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Check (SC) before they can be appointed.
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
Further information on National Security Vetting
Nationality statement
Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. If you're applying for a role requiring security clearance, please be aware that foreign or dual nationality is not an automatic bar. However certain posts may have restrictions which could affect those who do not have sole British nationality or who have personal connections with certain countries outside the UK.
As part of our recruitment process, it is essential for all candidates to independently verify their eligibility to work in the UK before applying. This includes a thorough check of your right to work to ensure compliance with UK employment laws, being mindful of the recent changes to going rates detailed on GOV.UK.
Please ensure you have the necessary documentation and permissions in place. Our team is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. However, it is the candidate's responsibility to ensure they meet the UK's legal requirements to work.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name :
- Katie Jones
- Email :
- kjones6@companieshouse.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email :
- recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk
Further information
We welcome applications in Welsh / Rydym yn croesawi ceisiadau yn y Gymraeg. Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission .
info@csc.gov.uk
Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ
