Senior Software Developer - Common Platform Data Engineering (Ref: 23037)

Overview

In this Senior Software Developer role, you will help modernize justice-related digital services by collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. You’ll contribute to a broad tech stack and shape the technical roadmap, driving secure, scalable software that supports access to justice. You’ll work on enterprise-grade applications, with opportunities to mentor others and influence product strategy. This position combines hands-on coding with strategic delivery in a mission-driven environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Civil Service pension with employer contribution
• flexible working options
• learning and development opportunities
• inclusive culture
• annual leave and public holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

Responsibilities

• Develop, improve and document code following standards
• Continuously learn and keep up to date with technologies
• Ensure product security, data confidentiality, and integrity; raise risks as needed
• Support and maintain software, including limited out-of-hours work
• Plan development, coordinate integration and contribute to process improvement
• Manage service availability effectively and cost-efficiently
• Build and test system interfaces
• Use test-driven development and automate, participate in code reviews
• Mentor junior colleagues and share technical expertise
• Take ownership of the technical roadmap and promote best practice
• Influence product strategy by providing technical insight to stakeholders
• Design and develop software based on user stories
• Participate in recruitment and procurement

Key requirements

• Experience in building scalable enterprise applications using Java
• Strong frontend proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, or Vue)
• RESTful API design and relational database architecture (PostgreSQL)
• Cloud-native architecture and infrastructure as code (Azure, Terraform)
• CI/CD, authentication (OAuth2/OIDC), and system monitoring
• Leadership with mentoring experience and driving technical standards
• DevOps practices and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Security-first mindset with vulnerability mitigation (OWASP top 10) during design phase

• leadership
• mentoring
• stakeholder collaboration
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Node.js