C# .NET and Ruby on Rails Software Developer - DfE - SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Full-time (Permanent)
National £42,806 London £46,971 plus up to £13,000 additional allowance
Published on
10 October 2025
Deadline
20 October 2025
Location
Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Darlington, North East England, DL1 5QE : Manchester, North West England, M1 2WD : Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, S1 2FJ : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1P 3BT
About the job
Job summary
These are exciting times at the Department for Education. In 2025 we'll continue to build more user-centred digital services for all our users, children, adults, and those in social care.
As a software developer, you’ll be part of a team responsible for developing and supporting scalable, secure, and high-quality user-centric digital services. You will assist senior team members in the design of the services. And you will work closely with colleagues within multidisciplinary agile teams, that focus on delivering work iteratively and at pace.
You will innovate to radically transform how public services are delivered and improved.
If you are successful, you will be working in Get Help Buying for Schools. This service is key to supporting efficiency savings in school. You will be joining a small multi-disciplinary team that runs the continuous improvement of the digital side of the service.
Job description
As a Software Developer, you will:
- work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver user-focused services in an agile environment.
- develop in the C# .NET and Ruby on Rails technology stacks to agreed standards.
- build automated tests to support our continuous deployment processes.
- work to modern development standards, practices and techniques.
- work with the development community to ensure we build sustainable digital products.
- advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on rapid, effective delivery of high-quality digital services.
- transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices such as test-driven development, continuous integration & delivery.
- provide support for services where software development involvement is required.
- support sharing of methods and technologies across teams, government, and the industry by helping to organise events.
- help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- Demonstrable experience of software development using C# .NET and Ruby on Rails along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Experience working with technical teams to deliver user-focused services in an agile environment.
- Experience of good practices such as Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, and DevOps as well as modern development workflows, ideally using GitHub.
- Experience of good software design concepts such as OOD, SOLID and design patterns.
- Experience of RESTful API design and loosely coupled architectures.
- Experience of web application security.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
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