Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Pay up to £78,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.
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.
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.
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?- Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo/IPC, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, Bash, Unix and RHEL.
- Awareness/knowledge of open-source technologies and tools such as Python and Java.
- Experience of using task management tooling such as Jira.
- Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
- Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.
You and your role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be building innovative software solutions and maintaining our core systems, using your skills and experience in C or C++ to develop solutions to complex challenges as part our Citizen Services team. You will also be supporting, coaching and guiding a team of high-performing software engineers, as well as sharing best practices with the wider software engineering and digital communities.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Blackpool or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £78,517.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,691 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- 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
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:
- Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
- Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.