Software Engineer

We have roles available for Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineers to join multidisciplinary agile teams within the department.

You'll collaborate with analysts, architects and engineers to design and build software products that are more efficient, accessible, and available for all of our users.

Job description

You will assist in the design of software products and infrastructure that make up our services in collaboration with architects and senior engineers.

With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code your teams produce.

As a Software Engineer your responsibilities will include but are not restricted to, the following:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team responsible for turning concepts into production-ready services.

• Responsible for building performant systems that can handle large traffic, data processing pipelines and large data sets.

• Write, share and review quality test-driven code, using modern frameworks and development techniques.

• Responsible for integrating with other services and data sources, working with cross-functional teams to ensure services are built to high standards.

• Responsible for ensuring that the implementation of services/solutions is adhered to approved designs.

Person specification

Our Senior Software Engineers (Grade 7) lead and set the strategy as well as build our products and applications - with researchers, testers, architects, analysts and designers - as part of multi-functional agile delivery teams.

You will be a leader in our team, you will coach and mentor Software Engineers.

Our Software Engineers (SEO) build our products and applications - with researchers, testers, architects, analysts and designers - as part of multi-functional agile delivery teams.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact sam.hackett@dwp.gov.uk.