Senior Java Engineer

Job Location	Bayswater, London
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	Competitive salary
Industry	Not Mentioned
Functional Area	Not Mentioned
Job Type	Permanent, full-time

Job Description

DWP. Digital with Purpose.Were looking for talented, experienced Java Software Devs and Engineers with knowledge of software products to join our growing community of experts and become a key part of one of the biggest and high profile digital transformation programmes in the world.As a Senior Software Engineer you will be an integral part of the team designing and delivering products and services that are used by 22 million people in the UK, including your friends, family, neighbours and some of the most vulnerable people in our society.If youre looking for a role that differs from the norm, where you will use your skills to help real people, you wont find a bigger, more challenging and rewarding opportunity anywhere in the UK. Click through or get in touch to find out more.Duties. Work. Projects. You and your role.Youll join our London team as a Senior Java Software Engineer where youll work on the most demanding and exciting new digital service for the UK government.Youll help steer and build DWPs flagship welfare reform programme, one that will change the face of public services and have the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people. This is genuinely high-profile and critical stuff; the potential for growth, exposure and career development is huge.You can code and you will code. This is a hands on role, where youll lead by example. Youll use your knowledge and experience of delivering multiple products to get the best technical output from our talented teams and to build our capability.Here we build and run applications that help our users access the services they need. Digital solutions, in the form of accessible products and services, are more important now than ever before.What really excites us is problem-solving and the opportunity to deliver innovative technology that carries real value for users. Youll draw value from collaboration with others, and actively share input and insight with teammates from lots of different disciplines - developers, designers, researchers, architects, testers and more.Our multi-disciplinary agile team is a testing ground and an incubator for ideas and ways of working that will influence the way things are done across government. Were proving that our creative, innovative approach can work in the public sector, that technology can change lives, and that we can successfully transform the delivery of government products and services. We want you to help us.Responsibilities:

Design and lead the strategies for building reusable libraries and services.

Own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines and the Software Engineering Community.

Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required.

Lead Software Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance. Including coaching and mentoring your team and their professional development.

Contribute and set strategic direction for product team and the wider Software Engineering community.

Lead the collaboration & sharing of knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering community.

Lead and support community discussions about best practice within Software Engineering.

Your skills:

Recent experience with Java 8 (or newer) in large scale, transactional microservice architectures.

Open source technologies like Java, JavaScript, Node.js,

Developing on cloud based environments like AWS and Azure

Have a good understanding of TDD and BDD

SQL and noSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB

Distributed version control systems such as Git

Containerisation - tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment

Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X

Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures

An understanding of responsive web design and progressive enhancement

Where Youll WorkYoull join us in our brilliant new digital hub in Westminster, London.We are a building a Software Engineering community that believes in nurturing the talent of our people, and here youll step onto a career path with many opportunities to develop and expand your knowledge base and skill set.We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.Details. Wages. Perks.In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £64,656, a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth more than 27%, and a generous leave package. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Flexible working family friendly policies

Volunteering and charitable giving

Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more

Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so its even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference

Sports and social activities

Learning, development, coaching and mentoring

Career pathways and progression

And lots more

APPLYFor further information and to start your application click apply.We value capability over experience, and well ask you to demonstrate the depth and breadth of your skills/knowledge in your application. We want to see what have you delivered before when using our key technologies, what technical solutions have you shaped, your knowledge of providing technical product support. Show us what you can do.

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