Senior Software Engineer

Pay up to £80,664, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

Join DWP Digital's Working Age Services team, where you'll help shape and deliver the digital services that support Universal Credit, one of the UK's most significant public services.

You'll work within multidisciplinary agile teams to design, build and evolve high-value applications, driving DWP's digital transformation and improving outcomes for our customers.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

A proven track record of building and deploying modern Java applications.

Significant experience of building in cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.

An excellent understanding of TDD and BDD.

Detailed working knowledge of SQL and noSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB.

Extensive experience and proven track record in the build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.

Strong working knowledge and practical experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.

You and your role

Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital.

Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people.

You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest govern...