Description
Software Developers work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary agile scrum teams to develop outstanding software that exceeds customer expectations.
As a Software Developer, you will sit at the heart of the transformation of our services and will ensure that we can become a Digital by Default' organisation. Using agile methods, you will be involved in all elements of development, with a relentless focus on how the service will be used. You will be involved in service design, code build, test, maintenance and support. We need a team of flexible, skilled developers with a love of web technology to realise our digital objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well-defined user needs.
- Participate in the rapid development of user-driven Digital prototypes;
- Building prototypes, writing tests, codes and documentations, implementing RESTful APIs, JSON ensuring continuous integration,
- Work in cross-functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world-class new and existing systems;
- Implement RESTful APIs for integration with internal and external systems;
- Ensure that new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load;
- Collaborate with all Scrum Team and Delivery Centre colleagues, providing feedback on more junior/apprenticeship developers where necessary;
- Contribute to a culture of continuous service improvement in which key systems owned by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved;
- Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment;
- Become involved in the wider web development community (outside of HMRC and the government), building relationships with other developers and identifying best practices we can adopt;
- Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government;
- Providing second-line' support and occasional on-call' support.
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- Excellent demonstrable commercial experience in programming and Back End software development with either Java, C#. Scala, Python or Ruby;
- Use and implementation of modern Front End web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
- Good understanding of web/agile technologies & protocols;
- Demonstrable experience in automated testing solutions;
- Proven problem solving skills:
Able to logically break down a problem into smaller manageable parts to solve; - Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
- Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
- Demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.
Desirable:
- Experience of programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#;
- Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
- Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring, MVC;
- Experience with open source solutions and community, including Linux system administration and configuration management skills;
- Including Linux experience;
- Experience with automated testing and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
- Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
- Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
- Configuration management skills;
- Confluence and JIRA;
- Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences;
- Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites;
- Understanding of the use of responsive web design;
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
- Understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
- Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.
Competences:
- Collaborating and Partnering
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace