Software Developer

DSIT • Full-time • England, United Kingdom • max £45.93k / year • 1d ago

Job summary

Here at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to people's lives. Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we're all part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you're thinking of joining us, there's never been a more exciting time.

This is an exciting time to join MHCLG, with roles in teams including data collection as a service (DCaaS) team/Delta which is our data-collection and grant payment platform and Digital Planning. We think it should be simple for local authorities to provide data and easy for analysts to use data. We can then put high quality data at the centre of decision making and reduce as much as possible the time spent collating and providing information. You will be working as part of our development team to deliver new features, improve existing functionality and support users of our services.

You will ensure services are user-centred, accessible, scalable, and aligned to government technology standards, delivering simpler, faster, and more transparent services for all users.

Job description

As a Software Developer, you'll:

Help us to develop high-quality software
Support the delivery of a robust and secure service
Follow development best-practice, including regular pair programming and test-driven development
Help us maintain a live service, keeping it reliable and secure through monitoring and active management of the production infrastructure
Become a domain expert and contribute to the direction of the product and wider government services
Build up a robust automated test suite to support our continuous deployment environment
Work collaboratively with a range of disciplines including product managers, designers and user researchers, as well as other developers, to meet the needs of users of the service
Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developers and non-developers, as well as across the wider development community

Person specification

As a Software Developer, you'll have:

Some experience of developing in modern programming languages (e.g. Java, Python)
Some experience of full stack development of web applications
Some experience of working within a test-driven development (TDD) is expected, as is experience of building RESTful APIs some experience using SQL or NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB)
Some experience of working with a live production system, including monitoring for performance and potential security issues, and triaging problems
Some experience of working on agile projects as part of a multidisciplinary team
Competent use of Git for source control
Some experience of working with CI/CD tools