Software Developer - HMRC - HEO

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Revenue & Customs is seeking a Developer to join the Valuation Office’s digital services team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality software within an Agile DevOps environment, contributing to transformation projects and building scalable microservices.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary delivery team under guidance from senior developers, applying TDD and best practices to meet user needs and HMRC standards.

Qualifications

• Experience building software in an agile team.
• Proficient in Scala for server-side and frontend.
• Experience with backend microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing and TDD.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
• Experience with Git and source control workflows.
• Knowledge of MVC frameworks (Spring, Play).
• Experience in agile software development with user-centred design.
• Awareness of observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, GTM).
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo).

Responsibilities

• Scala programming.
• Maintain legacy applications.
• Develop and maintain new applications with team technologies.
• Apply coding standards and internal guidelines.
• Write Unit Tests.
• Peer-review code and manage source control.
• Troubleshoot software with Live Services.
• Create documentation.
• Assist colleagues with technical expertise.
• Communicate with customers to ensure solutions meet business requirements.

Skills

Scala

Frontend

Backend microservices

Unit testing

TDD

CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

MVC frameworks

Agile development

Observability tools

Atlassian Suite

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Bamboo

Job description

Location

Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Portsmouth, Telford, Worthing

About The Job

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Job Description

This is an exciting and challenging role for those looking to deliver and inform technological change against a background of organisational transformation.

Valuation Office Customer Group provides digital services and IT support to the Valuation Office: drawing on HMRC’s digital expertise to ensure our customer (the Valuation Office) gets the right level of service as well as building and supporting specialist unique services.

There are some important attributes that we are looking for in anyone joining Chief Digital Product Office, Valuation Office. You must have a collaborative approach and a passion to communicate effectively. You will take accountability and ownership with the ability to coach, mentor, reflect and ability to give and take feedback. You will be flexible and adaptable, working with a sense of urgency and passionate about having ‘Customer’ at the heart of what you do.

The Valuation Office is currently in the process of a transformation project. This role will involve working with a multi disciplined team to deliver new services within multiple environments and working with wider stakeholders. The work will include coding and completing the process to enable the systems to go live.

As a Developer, you will work within a delivery team; building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. You will help to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating best practices and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions. You will work within your team under the guidance of your lead or senior developer, often pairing as you employ a test-driven approach to software development, helping your team to meet the needs of our users.

As a member of the Software Developer community, you will be working as part of a DevOps team using Agile best practices. You will work alongside other Developers producing test driven code and advising on software engineering best practices. Collaborating across disciplines within your team, you will help ensure the digital services being delivered help our stakeholders achieve their aims, meet HMRC standards and enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives.

Person specification

The candidate will have a proven record of being able work within a multi discipline team, contributing to discussions and seeking to resolve issues as they arise. They will be part of a development team where they be coding to standard and on time, while able to prioritise work on their own, picking up tickets as they are assigned to them.

As a Developer, you will work within a delivery team; building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. You will help to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating best practices and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions.

You will work within your team under the guidance of your lead or senior developer, often pairing as you employ a test-driven approach to software development, helping your team to meet the needs of our users.

As a member of the Software Developer community, you will be working as part of a DevOps team using Agile best practices. You will work alongside other Developers producing test driven code and advising on software engineering best practices. Collaborating across disciplines within your team, you will help ensure the digital services being delivered help our stakeholders achieve their aims, meet HMRC standards and enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives. There will be some monitoring of the services using platform tool to understand the health and stability of the services.

Role Responsibilities

• Scala programming.
• Maintain legacy applications.
• Develop andmaintain new applications using the team’s chosen technologies and tools.
• Apply agreed best practice and internal coding standards.
• Write Unit Tests.
• Peer-review code and ensure software is source controlled.
• Trouble-shoot software and work with Live Services to resolve issues.
• Create documentation.
• Assist colleagues with your technical expertise.
• Communicate with customers and colleagues to ensure solutions are well understood and optimally coded to deliver on business requirements.

Essential Criteria

• Working alongside other developers and professions to realise working software.
• Using Scala to build frontend (HTML/CSS/JS) and backend microservices.
• Continuous integration (unit testing, TDD, Jenkins, Git).
• Experience of MVC frameworks (Spring, Play, etc).
• Working in an agile software development role focussing on user-centred design.
• Problem solving and delivering a range ofpossible solutions, including through technical work and process improvement.
• Operating a live service, using observability tooling such as Kibana, Grafana and Google Tag Manager.
• Experience in using Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo) or equivalent tools.

Desirable Criteria

• Working within a GDS style delivery assurance framework and with a design system such as the GOV.UK Design System.