Home Office Hiring for Senior Software Developer Job at Sheffield, England Full Time

We provide them with the means to travel the world, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders, disrupting terrorist attacks and organised crime groups, and stopping people becoming victims of crime whilst supporting those who require asylum and safeguarding.

Our work is challenging, high profile but also very rewarding.

It’s important that we build a diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve and provide an inclusive environment for all. We value everyone’s skills and provide a creative and supportive workplace to help you do your best work and develop your career.

Areas of the work which you may need to get involved with (from a software engineering perspective) include:

• building and maintaining wide variety of gov.uk services you may be familiar with, including getting married or forming a civil partnership or applying for a visa

• ensuring that the application and delivery of passports is efficient – completing the build of our award-winning digital application system

• re-developing core policing data systems to ensure they are effective and provide a solid basis for innovation

• updating tools to ensure that our borders are efficient for both passengers and border officials

• ensuring that we have a world-class immigration system which is usable by all

If these types of projects excite you, we’d love for you to join us!

Our Tech Stack

AWS, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Java, React, Node, Kubernetes, MongoDB, JSON, ElasticSearch, JavaScript, SQL, GIT, Azure and quite a bit more!

What we offer

For one, we offer the chance to work on really large scale and very interesting projects. They bring huge opportunities for people in terms of development, variety, advancement, as well as the opportunity to really make a big impact.

We also know that great software requires great coding practices. Here are some key practices which we insist upon across our teams that allow us to release with speed and quality:

• agile principles

• test-driven development with a focus on automation

• continuous integration and continuous delivery

• review code via pull requests

• pairing smartly

• infrastructure as code

Responsibilities

As a Senior Developer you’ll take ownership over the products, features and services your team looks after, being curious at heart with a desire to make things better. You’ll prioritise the focus on being one team with a passion for nurturing, coaching and sharing your knowledge with others whilst ensuring high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles and thrive using agile methods.

A typical day in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:

• delivering secure, reliable and scalable software and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed

• evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations

• defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance

• acting as a digital ambassador, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for Home Office to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc

• evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintain a focus on development and deployment

• helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services

• like most businesses we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasion there may be a requirement to work out of hours. This will be identified with you before the need arises and you will be paid as agreed.

Essential Criteria

You’ll be a developer who is confident developing applications, passionate about making a difference and want to be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, and prototyping to execution, and shipping whilst having experience with:

• Java, C# or JavaScript (and frameworks such as Node or React)

• databases and DB technology (RDBMS, NoSQL etc)

• working with an agile environment

• full software delivery lifecycle

• working practices such as test-driven development (focusing on automation), continuous integration and continuous delivery

• a cloud-based approach, selecting cloud components and defining infrastructure as code to integrate them (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud etc.)

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Application Support (ASUP) – Level 5
• Data Management (DATM) – Level 5
• Programming Software Development (PROG) – Level 4
• Software Design (SWDN) – Level 5
• Systems Integration and Build (SINT) – Level 5
• Testing (TEST) – Level 4