Software Developer - Met Office - HEO

Location

Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB

About the job

Job summary

We’re looking for an exceptional Software Developer to help us make a difference to our planet. 

Job description

As our Software Developer, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. 

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. 

World changing work 

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. 

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise 

As a Software Developer you will have space to work with other developers building and implementing technical solutions providing critical space weather services to Met Office customers. You will create the forecaster visualisation tools used by our expert forecasters in the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre.

Your key duties:

• develop software to meet user needs
• follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• write clean, secure and well-tested code
• coach and mentor more junior colleagues
• operate the services you build and identify issues in production

Person specification

1. Experience of working with Amazon AWS cloud computing environments to develop and deliver services including AWS Serverless and Terraform (We're expert by nature).
2. Capable of independently designing, coding (Typescript, Angular), testing and documenting solutions, working closely with others to review and refine specifications (We're expert by nature).
3. Knowledge of architectural principles of security, resilience, cost, performance and operations (We keep evolving).
4. Experience of working as part of an Agile team, successfully deploying solutions to operational environments, and providing guidance to junior team members (We’re better together).
5. Demonstrable initiative for solving real world problems, demonstrating you have also considered the ‘bigger picture’, ensuring service continuity and user focus (Force for Good).