Java Software Engineer

NPAworldwide; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on delivering high-quality software solutions for the UK Government and Defence sector. The role involves full software lifecycle involvement and offers flexible working hours, competitive salary, and benefits including training budgets and a strong company culture. Candidates should be proactive, with a passion for continuous improvement and development in contemporary technologies.

Benefits

Flexitime with working from home

Budget for learning and training

Social events monthly

Matched pension and healthcare benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing software solutions including design, development, and testing.
• Proven ability to use a wide range of technologies effectively.
• Background in deploying software systems to various environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and test software solutions within agile teams.
• Participate in the full software lifecycle and deliver high-quality systems.
• Collaborate with high-level stakeholders for requirement analysis.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Full-stack development

DevOps practices

Open-source libraries

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Azure

Job description

Flexible / Variable Hours, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Can you think strategically and ‘join the dots’ across multiple activities to build the bigger picture? Do you enjoy working at pace, identifying new and improved ways of doing things and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders? Are you passionate to learn and develop in new software’s and make a difference to how our client operates?

We are looking for Developers to join our client’s team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join one of our clients small, fast‑paced, agile delivery teams; using agile methodology and DevOps techniques to build backend systems, data processing pipelines, and progressive web apps for customers in the UK Government and Defence sector.

Responsibilities

• Implementing software solutions including design, development, and testing.
• Use a wide range of technologies, specialising in the use of open-source libraries and components.
• Use tools such as GitLab to build continuous integration pipelines, which help monitor and ensure software quality and security.
• Deploy software systems to a mixture of environments including public (AWS and Azure) and private cloud.

Full Software Lifecycle involvement:

• Project concept formalization
• Requirement’s analysis and specification
• Software architecture design
• Software implementation and delivery
• Software training and support
• Software life cycle and maintenance

Candidate specification

Our clients Senior Software Engineers enjoy working on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, so they want their team to have a proactive and can‑do attitude to their work. They pride on keeping up with emerging technologies and delivery best‑practice, so it is important that you enjoy learning and continuous improvement.

You will ideally have exposure to.

• Contemporary software engineering including selection and application of appropriate technology and patterns.
• Confidence developing full‑stack solutions as a polyglot developer/engineer.
• DevOps and the techniques which enable it - including virtualisation, containerisation, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and infrastructure as code.
• Working with high‑level stakeholders - both internally and externally.
• Working in agile environments using methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Benefits

The Senior Software Engineer role is an excellent opportunity, and our client reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes:

• Flexitime: 37.5 hour weeks to structure however you want with working from home available
• Learning: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials
• Social: Fantastic culture with monthly social events
• Future You: Matched pension and health care package

Our client understands the importance of getting to know your colleagues. Whole company meetings are held every quarter, and a training/work brief weekend is held once a year, among many other social events.

They have offices in Bristol, Cheltenham and Manchester.

Equal Opportunities

They’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone is valued. They believe that diversity strengthens our team, and we’re actively working to prevent discrimination in all its forms.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will:

• Provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process if needed
• Offer an interview to people with health conditions or disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for a role.

We celebrate the uniqueness of our people and encourage everyone to contribute to our inclusion journey.