Developer - Rolling Campaign

We're looking for Developers of all experiences and backgrounds who can work across a range of services. During the application process, we will take your skills and any preference you express on board and aim to match you to an appropriate service and team. CDIO and GDS staff move between services and teams on need and request and as a result, you may be required to learn a new programming language.

Teams

GOV.UK - is the place to find government information and services. It's designed to make dealing with government simpler, clearer and faster. It's a microservices based architecture, primarily based upon Ruby on Rails, with Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgresSQL and a variety of other technologies. Read more about GOV.UK on the Inside GOV.UK Blog.

The Government as a Platform (GaaP) programme provides a range of shared services, solving common problems across government. GaaP is used to support critical infrastructure and deliver essential services used by millions of people every day, playing a vital role in digital transformation across the public sector.

Digital identity assurance enables people to prove who they are online, with the necessary level of confidence to access and use particular services. Effective identity assurance is therefore central to digital transformation, and the Government is committed to establishing a standards-based digital identity ecosystem that allows individuals to access safely a range of public and private sector services.

8 million people have already used the current cross-government system - GOV.UK Verify - to identify themselves and interact with public services digitally. GDS is now working closely with other departments to develop a new solution that will make it even easier to login and access services.

Projects

Digital Marketplace is helping those transforming public services by making it simpler, clearer and faster for them to buy what they need. It is built in python based on an Amazon AWS stack.

GovWifi is a wifi authentication service allowing staff and visitors to use a single username and password to connect to guest wifi across the public sector. It is built using Ruby and FreeRadius and uses an Amazon AWS stack.

You’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. You’ll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with programme 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 services. Above all, you’ll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo.

To learn more about what Developers do in government please review the DDaT Capability Framework

As a Developer in GDS you’ll:

• build RESTful web services to serve a variety of citizen and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce

• implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability

We’re interested in people who are skilled:

• Experience in back-end development, with detailed knowledge of either Ruby,Python,Java or Node.js
• Understanding of software design principles
• Research and learn new programming tools and techniques
• Take a systematic approach to solving problems
• Have experience of using testing to validate solutions 
• Understand agile environments and version control 
• Have a basic understanding about web security and accessibility
• Have an awareness of technologies used for the web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDN'S and search, and of UNIX-like operating systems, e.g. Linux and/or Mac OS
• Have experience working on, or with web technologies
• Keen to use their skills and expertise to make a genuine difference, and are excited about working on important services used by millions of people