Senior Software Engineers

Scottish Government; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A public service organization in Glasgow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop software that supports the delivery of public services. The role requires experience in AWS and proficiency in programming languages like Java and React Native. Successful candidates will write clean, efficient code, manage service components, and ensure software security standards are met. Training on specific technologies will be provided. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful public services.

Qualifications

• Ability to write clean, efficient, secure, and well-tested code.
• Strong understanding of security vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop software to meet user needs and maintain operational services.
• Implement embedded security controls in solutions.
• Manage service components to meet business needs.
• Identify and fix faults in systems.
• Review system designs for efficiency and resource use.

Skills

Java

Node JS

Typescript

React Native

Kubernetes

AWS

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Would you like to help build and run the platforms underpinning public services in Scotland?

The Digital Directorate is building a mobile app and associated services to allow the people of Scotland to access public services via their mobile phones. The app will provide users with a convenient, accessible way to perform tasks, access personalised and interact with services directly their smartphones, making best use of inherent mobile phone capabilities such as push notifications.

The software engineering team that develops those services, and the companion web application, builds and runs applications on AWS using Kubernetes and Lambda. Backend services are written in Java, with Node JS and Typescript used for front-end applications. Persistence is provided by S3, DynamoDB, and Redis. We use Grafana/Prometheus for metrics and dash-boarding, and Gitlab for CI/CD. The apps themselves are built in React Native.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: develop software to meet user needs, writing clean, efficient, secure, documented and well tested code; operate the services you build and identify issues in production: observe best practises contribute to their improvement; and have awareness of common security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.

We welcome developers interested in working across both the front and back end (recognising you may be stronger in one of the areas, and will try to assign to teams accordingly).

We don’t require experience of our specific tech stack and will support you to learn it or refresh your skills. There will also be opportunities to work with additional technologies beyond those listed above.

Responsibilities

• Managing service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Participating in the information security process.
• Designing and implementing embedded security controls in solutions and services.
• Competently applying a modern standards approach and guiding others to do so.
• Using the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Establishing design patterns and iterating them.
• Identifying, locating and fixing faults.
• Designing systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
• Selecting appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensuring they are applied effectively.
• Reviewing the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Understanding how to undertake and support integration testing activities.