Lead Software Developer

About DAS:

DAS is the Digital Application Services function, focused on delivering and supporting the applications, platforms and digital capabilities that enable effective business operations and service delivery. The function plays a key role in modernising services, improving resilience and performance, and ensuring business teams have the technology and tools they need to operate efficiently. DAS works across business and technology teams to shape, deliver and continuously improve digital solutions that are robust, scalable and aligned to organisational priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack solutions.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and mentoring to engineers within the team.
• Promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and knowledge sharing.
• Drive technical decision-making and support technology selection across the delivery lifecycle.
• Champion modern software engineering approaches, including DevOps, automated testing, and continuous delivery.

Solution Delivery

• Plan and lead the implementation of complex features and related user stories.
• Work collaboratively with architects, product managers, business analysts, testers, and client stakeholders to define and deliver solutions.
• Take ownership of technical delivery and ensure alignment with business and user needs.
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, backlog refinement, and technical design discussions.
• Participate in release planning, deployment activities, and production support.

Service Ownership & Continuous Improvement

• Take responsibility for the production services developed by the team.
• Improve system robustness, resilience, observability, performance, and operational stability.
• Conduct code reviews and provide quality assurance for work in progress.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive root cause analysis.
• Identify opportunities for automation and continuous improvement across the service.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders and delivery partners.
• Participate in show-and-tell sessions, demonstrations, and technical workshops.
• Contribute to the wider engineering and developer communities.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Essential Skills & Experience

Software Engineering

• Extensive experience developing cloud-native applications using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Strong understanding of full-stack software development principles and modern engineering practices.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, containerization technologies, frontend frameworks such as React, and advanced Java frameworks including Spring and Hibernate. 

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Proven experience working with AWS services including:
• Lambda
• SQS
• S3
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• CloudWatch
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.

Data & Integration

• Experience working with PostgreSQL and relational database design.
• Knowledge of data modelling, performance optimisation, and database management.
• Experience integrating services across complex enterprise environments.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Experience working in Agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using collaboration and delivery tools such as:
• Jira
• Slack
• Microsoft Teams
• Figma

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Scala and/or Java development.
• Experience delivering services within the UK Public Sector or Government Digital Service (GDS) environments.
• Familiarity with Government Technology Code of Practice and Service Standards.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of monitoring, observability, and operational support practices in production environments.
• Experience leading distributed or multi-supplier teams.

Benefits:

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• 25 days paid leave + National Holidays
• Flex benefits program

Please note eligibility for SC clearance is essential for this role.

As a Disability Confident employer, we encourage applications from all applicants, especially, differently abled applicants. We aim to ensure that those who meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. We are committed and willing to making reasonable adjustments to the application and assessment process to accommodate your needs.
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