Senior Software Engineer - Hybrid & Flexible Hours

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off volunteering and charitable/g

Discounts and savings on shopping

Interest‑free loans for bike/season-t票

Professional development, coaching and

Job summary

Senior Software Engineer role at DWP Digital, the UK government’s digital arm, focusing on building secure, scalable cloud-based services using AWS, Kubernetes, Java and microservices. You’ll lead in multidisciplinary teams, drive architectural decisions, and embed DevOps and security practices across the platform.

You’ll work in a hybrid model, shaping digital services used by millions, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, automation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions.
• Leading multidisciplinary agile teams with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience designing complex distributed systems and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long‑term organisational needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within multidisciplinary agile teams.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable cloud-based services.
• Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practice.
• Collaborate with product managers, delivery professionals and stakeholders to shape technical direction.

Skills

Leadership in agile teams

Cloud-native architectures

Security and resilience

CI/CD and DevOps

Architectural decision making

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/CloudFormation

Job description

Senior Software Engineer role at DWP Digital, the UK government’s digital arm, focusing on building secure, scalable cloud-based services using AWS, Kubernetes, Java and microservices. You’ll lead in multidisciplinary teams, drive architectural decisions, and embed DevOps and security practices across the platform.

You’ll work in a hybrid model, shaping digital services used by millions, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, automation and continuous improvement.