Senior Developer

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Sheffield is seeking a Senior Developer to contribute to product delivery within a large, cloud-based environment. You will join an agile team of over 200 engineers and help shape technology choices across the portfolio.

You will mentor colleagues, lead technical tasks, and participate in recruitment and assessments while delivering secure, reusable code and adhering to best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience building core components in a cloud-based, agile environment.
• Mentor and lead engineers; support recruitment and assessments.
• Write clean, secure code using test-driven development and ensure re-use of components.

Responsibilities

• Develop core components and help select technologies for our solutions.
• Write clean, secure code following test-driven approach and reuse in open form.
• Mentor and lead engineers; support recruitment and assessment activities.

Skills

Backend

Frontend

Data

DevOps

AI

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Azure

Jenkins

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Azure ML Studio

GitHub Copilot

OpenAI

Job description

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.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

Watch this short videoto hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

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.

Tools and Technologies we use:

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

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform

• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular

• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server,Mongodb, Apache Cassandra

• DevOps:AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform

• AI: Azure ML Studio, Python,GithubCopilot, OpenAI

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Senior Developer

Company: Government Recruitment Service Salary: £62,732 - £62,732 Hours: Full-time Location: Sheffield Job type: Permanent Posting date: 18 Aug 2026 Closing date: 1 Sept 2026

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.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

Watch this short videoto hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

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.

Tools and Technologies we use:

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

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform

• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular

• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server,Mongodb, Apache Cassandra

• DevOps:AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform

• AI: Azure ML Studio, Python,GithubCopilot, OpenAI

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

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