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Government Digital Service Hiring for Software Developer (Ruby on Rails) Job at London, England Full Time
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Location
London, Bristol, Manchester
Position type
Contractor / Interim
Summary
Software Developer (Ruby on Rails) – Contract/Interim – GDS/GOV.UK – 12 Month Contract
This is an opportunity to join Government Digital Service on an interim basis.
We typically pay between £600 to £675 a day for Software Developer’s with a Ruby on Rails focus via our contracting route, but rates can also be determined by the contract deliverables.
Overview
Connecting data from across government to provide a macro, user centred view, enabling the centre to prioritise, join things up.
Enabling product, content and service teams to see where they have impact in a wider context so that they can collaborate and improve.
Enabling non specialist teams across government to access granular data so that they can iterate policy based on what users are doing across related information and services so that policy is more user centred and service orientated.
JOB SPECIFICATION
Build RESTful web services to serve a variety of citizen and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce
terate and maintain content-data-api, a Ruby on Rails application which provides:
> A data warehouse that stores content and content metrics, and exposes this information via an API, to help content owners measure and improve content on GOV.UK.
> Data is combined from multiple sources, including Publishing API, Feedback and Google Analytics.
Explore techniques which will allow this application to bring in data from other sources, and visualise it in new ways to provide insights to users. Apply modern best practices in software development.
Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
Design and iterate appropriate database schema and associated jobs to ingest data from a variety of data sources (for example time series data from web analytics)
Key Skills Required
- have experience in back-end web development, with detailed knowledge of Ruby and the Rails framework
- familiar with AWS cloud infrastructure and services such as S3, RDS and EKS, EC2 and Redshift
- understand and practice software design principles
- familiar with database design and data warehouses
- willing to research and learn new programming tools and techniques
- take a systematic approach to solving problems
- have experience of using testing to validate solutions
- understand agile environments and version control
- have a good understanding about web security and accessibility
- have a good understanding of technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux and/or Mac OS
- Familiarity with use of infrastructure as code tools, especially Terraform
Closing date for applications
29 December 2021
Who we are
At the Government Digital Service (GDS), our mission is to build a simple, joined-up and personalised experience of government for everyone. Using our unique position at the centre of government, we develop services that work for the user, however complex the underlying systems may be. We believe that ensuring things work for end users is the only way to realise the efficiencies that come with digital transformation.
Our focus is on delivering five missions in the following areas:
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GOV.UK as the single and trusted online destination for government information and services
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Joined-up services that solve whole problems and span multiple departments
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A simple digital identity solution that works for everyone
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Common tools and expert services
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Joined-up data across departments
You can read more about these missions and our vision for the transformation of government in our 2021-2024 strategy
Things you need to know
You can find out about the application process and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to know page.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our organisation. You can find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion and read our equal opportunities statement on our Diversity and Inclusion page.