Senior Developer

UK Home Office; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 62,109 - 66,229; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil service pension

Flexible working options

25 days annual leave

Maternity and adoption support

Job summary

A government department in the UK seeks a Senior Developer to develop core technology components. In this hybrid role based in Croydon, Manchester, or Sheffield, you will write secure code and mentor junior engineers. The position offers a salary up to £66,229 plus a generous benefits package, including a civil service pension and flexible working options. This role is aimed at candidates with a passion for software development and a strong technical background.

Qualifications

• Passion for software development.
• Experience in software application design and maintenance.
• Ability to lead and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop core components of the solutions.
• Write clean and secure code following a test-driven approach.
• Mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks.

Skills

Software development

Complex software applications

Collaborative coding

Designing test cases

Technical expertise

Application support processes

Job description

Overview

Salary: £62,109 (National) or £66,229 (Croydon) plus skills allowance of up to £18,291 pending assessment.

Location: Croydon, Manchester or Sheffield on a hybrid basis

Advert Close: 11:55 pm Sunday 1st February 2026

Clearance: Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

What you’ll bring to the role

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.

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for software development, with the following skills or strong experience in:

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

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A - Z English (sfia-online.org).

What’s in it for you?

• A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
• Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
• Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
• Support for guardians and kinship carers.
• Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
• Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.

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