Senior Java Developer

🌟 Join Us as a Senior Java Developer at the Home Office! 🌟

Are you a Senior Java Developer passionate about creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these? In Shared Applications Service (SAS) you will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. We are responsible for designing, building, and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

This Senior Developer role is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making. You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.

The Senior Developer will mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities. We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

• Backend: Java, Node.js
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
• Data: PostgreSQL, Aurora, AWS RDS, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
• DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform

What You’ll Do

• Deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed.
• Evaluate and advise on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations.
• Define and document test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance.
• Evolve new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment.
• Help prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services.

What You’ll Bring

• Building RESTful web services to serve a variety of citizen and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce.
• Delivering secure, reliable, and scalable software in your team; undertaking a breadth of development tasks.
• Designing new software using appropriate tools and in line with standards, proving designs through prototyping.
• Reporting on system performance and support test activities; keep documentation up to date.
• Supporting services, you deliver through regular maintenance activities, balancing your work with your leadership.
• Working with other engineers to deliver new capability, for instance improved CI/CD pipelines or test approaches.

Why Join Us?

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Additional Information

This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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