Software Engineer

Job Description

We are recruiting for 2 Full-time, Permanent Software EngineersA bit about the role...The role of the Software Engineer is to undertake software development and production support on systems developed and operated by Homes England. This technical role requires experience in a range of technical skills.As a Software Engineer, you will have experience of developing and operating highly usable and accessible services that meet the needs of their users. You will be a full stack developer with technical experience across several domain areas: front-end, back-end,database, cloud infrastructure, on-premise, systems integration, greenfield and legacy solutions. You will adapt to the needs of your multi-disciplinary team, will be pragmatic, will have the experience needed to work on a variety of systems and to solve complexproblems.At Homes England we thrive on continuous improvement, seeking better ways of meeting the needs of our users and better processes and tools to help us achieve that. You will help by sharing your knowledge, contributing to standards and re-use, and facilitatingthe evolution of best practice software engineering through the community of practice.As a Software Engineer, you will deliver and integrate software to form complete services by:Contributing to assuring the quality of development across teams and development of complex servicesBeing proficient in a range of technical systems, identifying and assessing appropriate technology and approachesContributing to the developer communityJob accountabilities and responsibilities:You will develop and support complex digital services as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working to user needs, service design expectations and agreed priorities.Involved in ensuring that security, data protection, performance, capacity, recovery, logging, monitoring and other non-functional design needs and operational requirements are baked into the implementation of our digital services, protecting our customerdata and minimising cyber-security threats.Prototyping emerging technologies, or technical solutions to user needs and measure the effectiveness of these changes on our end-to-end services.Updating our services, ensuring they are effectively maintained, and that technical debt is managed and addressed appropriately throughout their lifetime.Working to technical standards on your project to maintain high levels of technical quality and applying your problem-solving skills both to the resolution of issues with the services you support, and to continuously improve on the working practices withinyour team.Reviewing and adopting Homes England software development standards and best practices, leveraging design patterns and the pursuit of re-use across Homes Englands solutions through the community of practice.In keeping with Homes England values and as a member of technical staff within Digital you will embody our spirit of collaboration and support colleagues by undertaking other reasonable duties when required to ensure we provide excellent services to ourcustomers.A bit about youExperience contributing to software solutions and resolving complex issues within a large and complex digital transformation programme.Experience of working with technical delivery within a multi-disciplinary agile team.Experience of working within a culture of best practice within a community of practice.Experience in the use of several of the following technologies: .NET Framework and .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, T-SQL, Azure, Angular.Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with experience of building accessible, secure and scalable internet services that conform to WCAG.Experience building and managing secure APIs and microservices that integrate with third-party solutions and legacy systems.Experienced in the application of SOLID principles and the use of software design patterns that create sustainable solutions and support reuse.Experienced in best practice software development, Test Driven Development and with experience of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and environments.Desirable education & qualificationsDegree in a computing related subject or equivalent experienceProfessional certifications in Azure or .NET developmentWho are weWe are the Governments national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues - meaning people are struggling to find homes. We have theappetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Governments ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homesaccelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims were building a different kind of public service- join us to help make this happen.We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especiallyimportant if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage. HomesEngland are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.

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ComputingSoftware EngineeringSoftware Solutions