Software Engineer

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Software Engineer (Java, Node.js, C#): Up to £56,480, 27% pension, flexible hours, strong L&D offer & hybrid working.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We offer support and services to over 20 million daily users, and make payments worth over £195bn a year.

Our DWP Digital teams are using the latest tech, tooling and thinking to transform how public services work. It's a generational change, making important services simpler to use, easier to access and more efficient to run.

We are developing our people, capability and skills so we can sustainably build, maintain and modernise products, applications and services that really work for our uses.

We hire brilliant people from across every discipline you can think of - engineers, analysts, designers, researchers, delivery managers, testers and loads more - and work together as agile squads, driven by an extraordinary purpose and the buzz of solving unique problems.

The scale of our engineering challenge, and the impact of the work our engineers do, is massive:

We have 1bn lines of code in over 12,000 code repos and 90+ programming languages.

We run around 294 days' worth of testing every day through automation.

Our APIs receive 173 million requests, and we spin up 280,000 AWS servers every month.

Over 22 million people - 1/3 of the UK's adult population - access our services daily. Over 100,000 colleagues and agents use the kit, tools and systems we roll out. We're one of the biggest payers in Europe with over £195bn payments made annually.

We're looking for your skills and experience in the following:

Recent experience of open source technologies such as Java, NodeJS or C#.

Developing on cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.

SQL, Oracle and noSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB are requested.

The skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support continuous integration.

Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. We work a hybrid model with 60% home working.

We pay up to £56,480, plus a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of over 27%, and a generous leave package.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Hybrid working - home working and some time in an office

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 it's 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

Process

Stage 1: Application

Stage 2: Coding Exercise

Stage 3: Interview

We know how valuable your time is - finding a new job is stressful enough without having to do umpteen stages and round after round of technical exercises.

That's why we have a clear and succinct hiring process with THREE QUICK STAGES.

So click the APPLY button and get started with the next step in your career at DWP Digital.