Software Developer (Full Stack/Front or Back End)

Overview

In this role you design, build, and maintain public-sector digital platforms, delivering accessible and secure user-focused interfaces and back-end services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with GDS and GOV.UK standards, supporting content-led journeys and scalable deployments. This is a chance to impact national-scale services while upholding high standards for accessibility, security, and performance. You’ll help shape modern digital experiences and mentor peers in engineering best practices.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• comprehensive health cover
• life assurance
• income protection
• holiday buy/sell
• enhanced pension scheme

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features for a public sector digital platform
• Deliver accessible, performant user interfaces using modern front end technologies
• Build and integrate secure back end services and APIs
• Collaborate with designers, content teams, and analysts to support content-led user journeys
• Enhance search functionality to support effective content discovery
• Support authentication and Single Sign On (SSO) integrations
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance, scalability, and accessibility requirements
• Work in line with the GDS Service Manual, supporting iterative, user-centred delivery
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and service monitoring
• Raise engineering standards through code quality, best practices, and mentoring

Key requirements

• Proven experience delivering production-grade digital services in agile, multidisciplinary teams
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience
• Experience writing clean, well-tested, maintainable code
• Understanding of accessibility, security, and quality in modern web applications
• Comfortable working in regulated or high-assurance environments
• Collaborative, resilient, and pragmatic in approach to problem-solving
• Front-end focus: React and Next.js; HTML/CSS; design system translation; accessibility and testing (Jest)
• Back-end focus: Node.js with Express; secure APIs; authentication/authorization; OpenShift/Kubernetes; CI/CD; monitoring (Grafana)

• collaborative
• resilient
• pragmatic problem-solving
• React
• Next.js
• HTML

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