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Senior Software Developer - Python

UK Government - Department for Business and Trade
London, GBR
Parttime, Fulltime
Onsite
£68,732–£88,423,
Discovered 2 days ago
PythonDjangoREST APIsWeb application developmentSQLMicroservices

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Salary and pension

  • Salary is £68,732–£88,423, with London and national ranges differing; salary is determined by skills and capability assessed at interview.
  • The role offers a Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Contract and working pattern

  • The contract is permanent.
  • The advertised working pattern includes full-time and part-time options, alongside flexible working.

Locations

  • The role is available in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London and Manchester.

Role overview

The Senior Software Developer designs, builds and runs robust, maintainable software for users.

The role covers the full software development lifecycle and involves solving technical problems, improving reliability and supporting production services.

The developer works in a multidisciplinary agile team with developers, technical architects, designers, user researchers and analysts.

Main responsibilities

  • Design, build, test and maintain software in line with agreed architecture and coding standards.
  • Develop and maintain REST APIs, web applications, microservices and containerised applications.
  • Support deployment, monitoring and production services; investigate incidents, identify root causes and implement improvements.
  • Build and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to translate user needs into working software and make informed technical decisions.
  • Review code, share knowledge, support colleagues and improve engineering practices.

Person specification

  • Essential lead criterion: strong experience developing REST APIs and/or web applications using Python and Django, with experience working with SQL.
  • The available description begins an additional essential criterion requiring experience designing, building and supporting microservices and containerised applications, but the source text is truncated before the full details.

About the department

The Department for Business and Trade's Digital, Data and Technology directorate designs, builds and runs services, platforms and technology for businesses and colleagues.

Its work includes digital services, data and AI products, internal tools, secure platforms and cyber security services.

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