Senior Software Engineer — Public Services Platform

Civica UK Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Bank holidays off

Pension contributions 5%

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Dental insurance

Refer a friend bonus

Job summary

Civica UK Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our product teams in the public sector space. You will decompose business problems into robust system designs, craft production-grade software, and navigate both legacy and greenfield projects within the same product.

Emphasis on engineering judgement and scalable architectures. Expect to push for modern tooling, AI-assisted development, and strong collaboration with product, design, and other engineers to deliver impactful public

Qualifications

• Decompose ambiguous problems into clear system designs and architectures.
• Design, build, and ship production-ready software across full lifecycle.
• Comfort with modern tooling and AI-assisted development as part of workflow.
• Demonstrated ability to own significant components end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Decompose ambiguous problems into clear system designs and make architectural decisions.
• Design, build, and ship production-ready software across the full lifecycle from spec to deploy.
• Work across legacy and greenfield environments within the same product.
• Own technical decisions for complex components and trade-offs.

Skills

System design

Software architecture

Production-ready software

Cross-functional collaboration

Learning agility

Tools

Claude Code

Copilot

Cursor

Job description

Civica UK Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our product teams in the public sector space. You will decompose business problems into robust system designs, craft production-grade software, and navigate both legacy and greenfield projects within the same product.

Emphasis on engineering judgement and scalable architectures. Expect to push for modern tooling, AI-assisted development, and strong collaboration with product, design, and other engineers to deliver impactful public