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Salary: £55,000 - 78,000 per year
Requirements: We have significant commercial experience with Java 11+ and Python 3.We have experience with Spring Boot, Python Flask microservices, Spring Security, and OAuth2.We have experience with JavaScript UI frameworks, including React.We have strong HTML and CSS skills, with awareness of accessibility considerations.We have experience with OpenShift.We have experience with modern DevOps and CI/CD practices, including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker.We have experience designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly MongoDB and PostgreSQL.We have significant and demonstrable commercial experience delivering high-quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.We have experience designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.We have experience developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.We have experience designing and implementing solutions using service-based and event-based architectures.We have experience using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.We have experience with cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools, and processes, including Grafana.We have experience incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.We have experience working in Agile delivery models.We have experience defining infrastructure as code.We have experience using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested, high-quality interfaces.We have experience using code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools.Desirable: We have experience with AWS Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, Aurora/PostgreSQL, API Gateway, and CDK.Desirable: We have experience with TypeScript. Responsibilities: We continue enhancing our customer-facing product portfolio based on customer feedback.We continue developing and supporting customer-facing products in line with our product and architecture roadmaps, improving digital sustainability and reducing architectural and technical debt.We demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practices focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.We provide software development services.We actively participate in team events, lead where specialist knowledge is required, and support the team to improve our processes through inspection and adaptation.We engage with wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, techniques, and experience.We ensure high-quality developed solutions through unit testing, appropriate code coverage, and code analysis using quality tools.We ensure our software complies with non-functional requirements such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, and deployability.We troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from our AWS-based modern stack to the ETL and database strands that underpin the service.We routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing in programming, code reviews, system design, and requirements analysis and refinement.We coach and mentor other team members as appropriate.We support and deliver disaster recovery assurance of digital services, working toward a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective of zero. Technologies: APIAWSLambdaCI/CDCloudCSSDevOpsDockerETLFlaskGrafanaSupportJavaJavaScriptJenkinsMongoDBNoSQLOpenShiftPostgreSQLPythonReactSecuritySpringSpring BootTypeScriptmicroservicesUX UI Design More:
We are a public sector organisation based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, offering an initial 6-month contract for a Senior Developer. The role is hybrid, combining home and office working, and is outside IR35 at a rate of £486 per day.
last updated 33 week of 2026