46111 - Senior Software Developer

£48,353 - £78,448 (salary based on location)
1
12 Months
East Midlands, London, North East, Scotland, West Midlands
Birmingham , Glasgow , London, Nottingham , Sheffield
102 PETTY FRANCE (MOJ) LONDON, SW1H 9AJ, OPG NOTTINGHAM, NG1 6AZ, THE AXIS BIRMINGHAM, B1 1TG, NOMS DIGITAL STUDIO SHEFFIELD, Greenfield House, 32 Scotland Street, Sheffield, S3 7DQ, S3 7DQ, CICA Alexander Bain House, Glasgow, G2 8JQ
Grade 7, Grade 6
Ab
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
Digital

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice. To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity

Job Title: Senior Software Developer
Location: London, Sheffield, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow
Salary Range: £58,130 - £72,760 (London), £48,353 - £66,939 (National) depending on skills and experience
Closing Date: 3rd August 2021
Interviews: w/c 9th August 2021

We’re recruiting for a Senior Developer here at MoJ Digital & Technology, to be part of our warm and collaborative HMPPS team.

You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, write code and operate software in either our Prison or Probation service areas.

You will work with user researchers, product managers, designers, business analysts, delivery managers and content specialists who share a vision for making better government through smarter use of technology. You will innovate to radically transform public services for the better.

For more information on how HMPPS build software click here

Our community

We currently have over 40 experienced developers who make up the broader engineering community. You will give coaching and mentoring to your colleagues and take part in informal support networks with your peers. The senior developer role is as much about leadership as it is delivery.

Take a look at our developer blog and read about one of our developers talking about her experiences joining during lockdown.

To help picture your life at MoJ D&T please take a look at our blog and our Digital & Technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

As a senior developer at MoJ you will:

  • Build user-centred, open-source, RESTful web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
  • Be responsible for the development of large areas of projects, or small projects in their entirety
  • Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
  • Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developer.
  • Transform government into a more agile organisation by helping to embed modern development practice.
  • Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
  • Occasionally participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours
  • Have the potential to manage, coach and develop a small number of less experienced developers
  • Help with hiring, taking part in the recruitment of other developers

To learn more about what senior developers do in government please review the DDaT Capability Framework:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/software-developer#senior-developer

Our tech stack

We rely heavily on:

  • Ruby/Ruby on rails to write our services
  • Circle CI for deployment
  • Sentry/Prometheus for application monitoring
  • Application Insights for full observability into your applications, infrastructure and network
  • Elastic/Kibana for Data visualization
  • Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our service(read about our Cloud Platform)
  • AWS for most of our infrastructure
  • UK Design System for our web interfaces
  • Macs to do all of the above

About HMPPS Digital

HMPPS Digital is a part of MOJ Digital and Technology.

Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) is rapidly transforming and HMPPS Digital’s mission is to help rehabilitate and reduce reoffending by building world-class services that put the user first, overhauling the legacy technology that underpins our systems and making better use of data to improve our services.

HMPPS Digital has a diverse portfolio of products and services to suit a wide range of developer skills. We have a mature, in-house software development team, building services with both public and professional user interfaces, built on top of our APIs and Cloud Platform.

The product team you are placed on will be agreed closer to your start date but examples of products include:

Use of Force - A service to allow recording of Use of Force incidents.https://github.com/ministryofjustice/use-of-force

Prisoner API - An API for our prison custodial management service https://github.com/ministryofjustice/prison-api

Whereabouts API -  An API to manage the location of prisoners https://github.com/ministryofjustice/whereabouts-api/

Community API - An API for accessing and updating probation data https://github.com/ministryofjustice/community-api

Probation Offender Search - Probation offender search via Elastic Search https://github.com/ministryofjustice/probation-offender-search

For more information on how HMPPS build software click here 

About MoJ Digital and Technology

MOJ Digital and Technology have a clear vision - to develop a digitally-enabled justice system that works more simply for users - and we’re looking for talented people to help us achieve it.

We’re making things better by building adaptable, effective services and making systems that are simple to use for staff and citizens. It can be challenging but it’s also important and rewarding.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

This is an MoJ Grade Ab role with a salary of £58,130 - £72,760 (London), £48,353 - £66,939 (National) depending on skills and experience plus great benefits:

  • 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
  • We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning, GDS Academy, etc.
  • 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
  • Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
  • 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Queens’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
  • Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
  • Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
  • Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Careers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and
  • SPIRITBike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
  • Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
  • 5 days volunteering paid leave.
  • Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
  • Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential:

  • Experience in backend development in Typescript/Node, Kotlin
  • Evidence of mentoring, coaching or leading other developers (at work or in meetups etc)
  • Evidence of experience working with modern tools and techniques
  • Want to make a positive impact on the communities we serve
  • Are looking for new technical and leadership challenges
  • Thrive when you work as part of a team
  • Enjoy learning and helping others
  • Hold yourself and others to a high standard
  • Solve problems in a systematic way

You’ll value:

  • Continuous learning and development
  • Being inclusive, supportive, inquisitive and responsible (MoJ D&T core values)
  • Working with integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality (Civil Service core values)

We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you’re part of our team.

Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technology we use. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit an up to date CV and cover letter which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In D&T, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

  • Developing self and others
  • Making effective decisions
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Working together 

Your application will be reviewed and sifted against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to complete a tech test and if successful a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Further Information

Please review the following Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk 

03/08/2021, 23:55 hours.

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 46111.

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oCDbgfwq&s=Civil_Service_jobs.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

· UK nationals

· nationals of the Republic of Ireland

· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.