Home Office Hiring for 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, 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 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 systems 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, C#, 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 Developer you’ll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or more projects

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

• Writing code

• Writing unit tests

• Identifying and fixing faults

• Performing code review

• Providing technical assurance

• Offering technical expertise on software architecture and technology choices

• Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Prioritisation of work in line with deliverables and project goals

• On occasion there may be a requirement to work out of hours

Essential Criteria

We’re looking for developers who are curious at heart and when confronted with a difficult or strange problem want to act like a detective and crack the mystery.

You’ll be joining a growing software engineering community and you’ll be passionate about growing your own career within that community with an enthusiasm to research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

You’ll have experience developing applications and familiarity with:

• Backend, frontend, or full-stack development, with detailed knowledge of at least one programming language and their respective ecosystem such as; Java, C# or JavaScript (React or Node)

• Agile environments and version control

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

• The full software delivery cycle

• Cloud based approaches and the use of orchestration tools (AWS, Azure, Docker and Kubernetes)

The skills listed are reflective of the Home Office DDaT Profession Skills and Competency Model (based on the industry standard SFIA framework), please review the attached ‘Role Description’ which highlights the expected technical skills and required levels for this role.

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

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