Senior Software Engineer, Digital Government Platforms

Cabinet Office; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cabinet Office Digital team seeks a Senior Software Developer to design, build, run, and improve secure, accessible digital services for UK government standards. You will work with multidisciplinary agile teams and architects to gather requirements and ensure reliability, security, and scalability of public-facing platforms.

You will champion CI/CD, write clean, tested code, and help shape deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, developing, and implementing customised solutions.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary agile teams and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build secure, scalable digital services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, run, and improve secure, accessible digital services aligned with government standards.
• Write clean, tested code with supporting documentation and clear commentary.
• Establish robust CI/CD pipelines for new and existing sites and services.
• Advise teams on software development standards and best practices.
• Deliver user-focused solutions across multiple teams and platforms.
• Maintain live production systems using modern diagnostic tools to troubleshoot faults.

Skills

CI/CD

Agile teams

Secure coding

Job description

The Cabinet Office Digital team seeks a Senior Software Developer to design, build, run, and improve secure, accessible digital services for UK government standards. You will work with multidisciplinary agile teams and architects to gather requirements and ensure reliability, security, and scalability of public-facing platforms.

You will champion CI/CD, write clean, tested code, and help shape deployment pipelines.