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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 4 days ago
PythonDjangoREST APIsWeb application developmentSQLMicroservices

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Role overview

Senior Software Developer role in the Department for Business and Trade's Digital, Data and Technology directorate.

Build and operate robust, maintainable software for services, platforms and technology used by businesses, colleagues and citizens.

Work in a multidisciplinary agile team across the full software lifecycle, from understanding requirements and shaping solutions through deployment and production support.

Main responsibilities

  • Design, build, test and maintain high-quality software, delivering functionality and improving services in line with architecture and coding standards.
  • Work across development, testing, deployment, monitoring and production support.
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, designers, user researchers and analysts to turn user needs into software and iterate based on evidence and feedback.
  • Develop and maintain REST APIs, web applications, microservices and containerised applications.
  • Improve system reliability by understanding dependencies, data and system interactions; investigate incidents, find root causes and implement sustainable fixes.
  • Build and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • Review code, share knowledge, support colleagues and improve engineering practices, including exploring and prototyping solutions.

Person specification

  • Essential: 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 containerised applications using technologies such as Docker.

About the department

The Digital, Data and Technology directorate designs, builds and runs digital services, data and AI products, internal tools, secure platforms and cyber security services.

Multidisciplinary teams focus on improving services, solving complex problems and delivering better outcomes for users.

Salary and grade

  • Published salary range is £68,732–£88,423, with London and national ranges including an allowance; salary is determined by skills and capability assessed at interview.
  • The role is Grade 7 and includes a Civil Service Pension with a stated employer contribution of 28.97%.

Locations and working pattern

  • Locations listed are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London and Manchester.
  • Working pattern options include flexible working, full-time and part-time.

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