C# .NET Software Developer - Department for Education - SEO

Location

Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT

About the job

Job summary

These are exciting times at the Department for Education. In 2026 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 could be working in: 

• Submit Learner Data: This service supports the collection of learner, staff and funding data from FE and Skills providers, calculates funding and provides data downstream for the funding, payments and MI purposes.
• The Learning Records Service: this service supports enrolment and funding eligibility checks in the further education sector by providing the Unique Learner Number and the Personal Learning Record (PLR).  It collects data from Awarding Organisations to support the PLR and provides data for publications such as the school performance tables.

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 technology stack 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 

We'll assess you against the following essential criteria. 

• Demonstrable experience of software development using C# .NET along with SQL, 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.