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Senior developer

Grade
G7
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You will

  • Lead and provide technical support for a large team of developers across a variety of products and services

  • Work with the development community to ensure we build sustainable digital products

  • Create and sustain modern development standards, practices and techniques for our development community

  • Support, coach and mentor less experienced developers and help them integrate into teams

  • Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on rapid, effective delivery of high quality digital services

  • Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance

  • Transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices such as Test Driven Development, continuous deployment, and DevOps

  • Support sharing of methods and technologies across teams, government, and the industry by participating in and organising community events

You’ll have

Essential

  • Expert knowledge of software development using Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework, C#.NET, or similar

  • Experience leading by example working with technical teams to deliver user-focused services in an agile environment

  • Experience of good practices such as Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, and DevOps as well as modern development workflows, ideally using GitHub

  • Experience of good software design concepts such as OOD, SOLID and design patterns

  • Experience of RESTful API design and loosely coupled microservices architectures

  • A good understanding of web application security and awareness of the OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities

  • Enthusiasm for sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and working in a diverse and inclusive multi-disciplinary team

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process

  • Modern standard approach - You can use a modern standards approach to solve problems, using test driven development (TDD) techniques

  • Programming and build - You can write clear, concise and maintainable code using standard tools

  • A systematic approach to problem solving