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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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Role overview

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

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

The role works in a multidisciplinary agile team across the software development lifecycle.

Main responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and maintain software in line with agreed architecture and coding standards.
  • Work across development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
  • Translate user needs and designs into software, iterating services based on evidence and feedback.
  • Work with technical architects and developers to solve complex technical problems.
  • Develop and maintain REST APIs, web applications, microservices, and containerized applications.
  • Investigate service incidents, identify root causes, and improve reliability.
  • Build and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • Review code, share knowledge, support colleagues, and improve engineering practices.

Essential requirements

  • Strong experience developing REST APIs and/or web applications using Python and Django, with experience working with SQL.
  • Experience designing, building, and supporting microservices and containerized applications; the source description is truncated after this requirement begins.

Salary and benefits

  • Salary range is £68,732–£88,423, with London and national ranges stated in the description.
  • Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Locations

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

Contract and working pattern

The contract is permanent.

The working pattern may be full-time or part-time, with flexible working stated.

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