Senior Software Developer - MoJ - G7
Government Digital & Data -
We’re recruiting for Senior Software Developers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our friendly and diverse OPG Digital team, supporting the work of the Office of the Public Guardian.
As a developer at Justice Digital, you will be designing and building web systems that make a genuine difference to people’s lives. You’ll make sure we build things the right way, keeping up to date with the latest technologies, whilst delivering working software early and often.
You will work with user researchers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share a vision for improving government through smarter use of technology.
To help picture your life at Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Our Tech Stack
We use a range of technologies and we’re looking for people who have experience of building web applications and back-end systems in an object-oriented language, and love learning new languages and frameworks.
We use PHP, Go, and Python to write our application code, GitHub Actions and Jenkins for CI/CD, Docker for consistency between local development and deployed services, AWS for of our infrastructure, GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces and use Macbook Pros.
For front-end development, we value a robust understanding of the underlying web technologies. We value well-maintained, open-source tools that can be used to produce semantic HTML, performant CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript or TypeScript, and we assess all our services against accessibility criteria.
We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you’re part of our team, and do not require an exact match in your experience of languages. Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technologies we use, and a complete list of services that we build and maintain. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development.
Our Community
We currently have over 200 experienced developers who make up the engineering community across the MoJ. You will coach and mentor junior colleagues and take part in informal support networks with your peers. You will be encouraged to play an active role in the engineering community and culture.
We take the responsibility of supportive and effective line management very seriously. We will value the skills you bring to the civil service and help you to build on them. When the time is right we will support moving between teams or government departments to learn different technologies, or take on more responsibility, according to your career goals.
Take a look at our developer blog and Justice Digital blog to get a sense of our work and culture.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Developer at the MoJ you will have technical and people responsibilities.
Technical:
- Securely designing, building and maintaining APIs, services and systems
- Working on pre-existing codebases
- Improving the resilience and stability of software
- Applying practices to enable continuous delivery
People:
- Developing and influencing people via line management duties, informal and formal coaching, and mentoring
- Supporting lead developers in building high performing teams
- Helping to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Benefits
37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
5 days volunteering paid leave.
Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Person Specification
You will:
Demonstrate proven experience of delivering large and complex software solutions
Demonstrate proven experience of a high level language
Have awareness of technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, microservices, backups, CDNs and search, DevOps and Unix-like operating systems
Apply modern development and deployment techniques to your work, including continuous integration and continuous delivery
Champion software maintenance, clean code, coding standards and practices that make change and consistency easier
Write automated tests to continuously validate your work
Thrive when you work as part of a team that abides by the spirit of the manifesto of agile software development
Enjoy sharing knowledge and working in a multi-disciplinary team
Help the team and yourself incrementally improve ways of working
Solve problems in a systematic way
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
