We're looking for Senior and Lead Full Stack Software Engineers to join our team.

As a Software Engineer, you will join one of our small, fast-paced, agile delivery teams; using agile methodology and DevOps techniques to build backend systems, data processing pipelines, and progressive web apps for customers in the UK Government and Defence sector.

Main skills: Java, React, JS, AWS - SC clearable - £60k to 80k DOE - Remote across England

All applicants need to be eligible for a full UK SC security clearance.
To qualify for this, you must:

• Be a British Citizen
• lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years

JOB SPECIFICATION

The Software Engineering consists of a wide range of responsibilities, the list below gives a flavour of some of the tasks you may be asked to undertake:

• Implementing software solutions including design, development and testing.
• Use a wide range of technologies, specialising in the use of open-source libraries and components.
• Use tools such as GitLab to build continuous integration pipelines, which help monitor and ensure software quality and security.
• Deploy software systems to a mixture of environments including public (AWS and Azure) and private cloud.
• Full Software Lifecycle involvement: project concept formalisation; requirements analysis
• specification; software architecture design; software implementation and delivery; software training and support and software lifecycle and maintenance.

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION

Our Software Engineers enjoy working on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, so we want our team to have a proactive and can-do attitude to our work. We pride ourselves on keeping up with emerging technologies and delivering best-practice, so it is important that you enjoy learning and continuous improvement.

You will ideally have exposure to;

• Contemporary software engineering including selection and application of appropriate technology and patterns.
• Confidence developing full-stack solutions as a polyglot developer/engineer.
• DevOps and the techniques which enable it - including virtualisation, containerisation, continuous integration,
• continuous deployment and infrastructure as code.
• Working with high-level stakeholders - both internally and externally.
• Working in agile environments using methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Technologies you will be working with include but is not limited to:

Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Azure, Spring Boot, React, Angular, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, Kafka.

Ian at Henderson Scott is shortlisting candidates for interview, so please apply!