Senior Developer

UK Home Office; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil service pension

In-year reward scheme

25 days annual leave

Public holidays + 1 privilege day

Flexi-time and flexible working

Job summary

The UK Home Office is seeking a Senior Developer to join a community-led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams within a modern cloud environment, delivering core components of our solutions and driving technology choices with autonomy.

You will write clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring re-use and openness where possible. You will also mentor and lead other engineers and support recruitment and assessment activity.

Qualifications

• Designing, reviewing and maintaining complex software applications and documentation.
• Collaborating in designing, coding, testing, documents, amends, and refactoring moderately complex programs/scripts.
• Designing test cases and scripts to predetermined criteria and reporting outcomes.
• Providing technical expertise to enable configuration of system components for tests.
• Managing and updating data systems to ensure information remains searchable.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks.
• Support recruitment and assessment activities for new hires.
• Contribute to delivering core components and selecting technologies.

Skills

SWDN

PROG

TEST

SINT

DATM

ASUP

Job description

Location: Sheffield | Salford | (hybrid)

Skills allowance of up to £17,668, pending assessment

Advert Close Date: 1st September 2026

Job summary

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.

The Senior Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.

You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.

The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

See job ad for full details!

Tools and Technologies we use:

We would encourage applications from candidates with experience or interests in the following technologies:

As a Senior Developer, you’ll have a demonstrable experience in:

• Designing, reviewing and maintaining complex software applications, components, modules and documentation. (SWDN)
• Collaborating in designing, coding, testing, documents, amends, and refactoring moderately complex programs/scripts. (PROG)
• Designing test cases and scripts under own direction, mapping back predetermined criteria and reporting testing outcomes. (TEST)
• Providing technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for system tests. (SINT)
• Managing and updating data systems, enabling the availability, integrity of searchability of information which can be utilised by many sources. (DATM)
• Maintaining application support processes, ensuring support requests are dealt with to agreed processes, investigating issues, and reporting findings where applicable. (ASUP)

Why work for us...

Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of £17,992 annually
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
• Flexi-time allowance and flexible working options

Plus so much MORE: https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/benefits