Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

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Pay up to £78,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

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DWP. Digital with Purpose.

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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

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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.

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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.

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

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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. ul>

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You and your role

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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.

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Details. Wages. Perks.

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Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Blackpool or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

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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.

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Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £78,517.

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Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,691 per year.

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Holidays:A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

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You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

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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. ul>

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Process:

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We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

• Interview: a single stage interview online. ol>

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CLICK APPLYfor more information and to start your application.