Software Developer (Full Stack/Front or Back End)

JACOBS; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Holiday Buy/Sell

Wellbeing Support

Pension Scheme

Job summary

Jacobs is hiring experienced Software Developers to design and deliver websites and services built to GDS and GOV.UK standards. You will work in multidisciplinary agile teams delivering accessible, secure, and scalable digital platforms used at national scale.

Join a hybrid, full‑time role in Bristol, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, code quality, and observability. Expect collaboration with designers and analysts to support content‑led user journeys and content discovery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering production‑grade digital services in agile teams.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience with modern front end frameworks.
• Experience building secure, scalable web applications with accessible UIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end to end features for a public sector digital platform.
• Deliver accessible, performant user interfaces using modern front end technologies.
• Build and integrate secure back end services and APIs.
• Collaborate with designers, content teams, and analysts on user journeys.
• Enhance search functionality for content discovery.
• Support authentication and SSO integrations.
• Ensure security, performance, scalability and accessibility requirements.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments and monitoring.
• Raise engineering standards through code quality and mentoring.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React/Next.js

HTML/CSS

Front-end testing

Node.js/Express

APIs authentication/authorization

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud/containers

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Grafana

Express.js

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Are you ready to shape the future of key digital services? At Jacobs, we are seeking experienced Software Developers, with full‑stack, front or back‑end capabilities, to join our growing team designing and delivering websites and services built in line with GDS and GOV.UK standards.

This is your opportunity to work on impactful projects that prioritise accessibility, security, and user centred design. As a Software Developer, you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary agile teams to create secure, scalable, and high quality digital platforms used at national scale.

What you’ll do:

• Design, build, and maintain end to end features for a public sector digital platform.
• Deliver accessible, performant user interfaces using modern front end technologies.
• Build and integrate secure back end services and APIs.
• Collaborate with designers, content teams, and analysts to support content led user journeys.
• Enhance search functionality to support effective content discovery.
• Support authentication and Single Sign On (SSO) integrations.
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance, scalability and accessibility requirements.
• Work in line with the GDS Service Manual, supporting iterative, user centred delivery.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments and service monitoring.
• Raise engineering standards through code quality, best practices and mentoring.

Here's what you'll need

Core requirements:

• Proven experience delivering production‑grade digital services in agile, multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience.
• Experience writing clean, well‑tested, maintainable code.
• Understanding of accessibility, security and quality in modern web applications.
• Comfortable working in regulated or high‑assurance environments.
• Collaborative, resilient, and pragmatic in your approach to problem‑solving.

Front‑end:

• Strong experience with React and Next.js.
• Excellent HTML, CSS and modern styling approaches (Tailwind beneficial).
• Proven experience translating Figma designs and design systems into high‑quality UI.
• Solid understanding of accessibility, usability and inclusive design.
• Front‑end testing experience (Jest or similar).

Back‑end:

• Strong experience building services using Node.js, including Express.
• Experience designing secure APIs, authentication and authorisation.
• Exposure to containerized environments (OpenShift and/or Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana).
• Experience with search services and/or identity solutions is a plus.

Security and Employment Details

This role is subject to UK Security Vetting at SC (security check) level. Applicants must be willing to undergo the appropriate security clearance process if not already cleared. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo the relevant vetting process to achieve SC clearance. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon satisfactory completion of the relevant clearance process.

This is a full time, permanent role, hybrid (2-3 days/week, Bristol). Full‑time employment at Jacobs is based on a 40‑hour working week. We place a strong emphasis on work‑life balance and flexibility, and flexi‑time is available.

As well as great opportunities for career progression and professional learning and development, we offer an excellent and wide range of employee benefits including comprehensive Health Cover, Life Assurance, Income Protection, holiday buy/sell scheme, and a variety of wellbeing, family, parental and fertility support offerings, along with an enhanced contribution pension scheme.

Equal Opportunity Statement

As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.