Software Developer

Homes England

Hybrid

Expires: Expiring in less than 2 weeks

Flexible

£41,517 - £48,064 per year

Job summary

The role of the Software Engineer is to undertake software engineering and production support on systems developed and operated by Homes England. This technical role requires experience in a range of skills.

Job description

As a Software Engineer you will have experience of developing and operating highly usable and accessible services that meet the needs of their users. You will be a full stack developer with technical experience across several domain areas: front end, back end, database, cloud infrastructure, on‐premise, systems integration, greenfield and legacy solutions. You will adapt to the needs of your multi‐disciplinary team, will be pragmatic, will have the experience needed to work on a variety of systems and to solve complex problems.

At Homes England we thrive on continuous improvement, seeking better ways of meeting the needs of our users and better processes and tools to help us achieve that. You will help by sharing your knowledge, contributing to standards and re‐use, and facilitating the evolution of best practice software engineering through the community of practice.

Person specification

As a Software Engineer you will deliver and integrate software to form complete services by:

Contributing to assuring the quality of development across teams
Contributing to the development of complex services
Being proficient in a range of technical systems
Being involved in identifying and assessing appropriate technology and approaches
Contributing to the developer community

Key qualifications, knowledge and experience:

Availability and capacity management: You can manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
Development process optimisation: You can explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised. You can support specific activities to improve development processes. You can spot or identify obvious deficiencies.
Information security: You can discuss information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
Modern standards approach: You can competently use a modern standards approach and guide others in so doing.
Programming and build (software engineering): You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
Prototyping: You see prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You establish design patterns and iterate them. You know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.
Service support: You can help fix faults following agreed procedures. You can carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
Systems design: You can translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs. You know how to document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. You can work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
Systems integration: You can build and test simple interfaces between systems, or work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
User focus: You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.

Key experience:

Experience contributing to software solutions and resolving complex issues within a large and complex digital transformation programme.
Experience of working with technical delivery within a multi‐disciplinary agile team.
Experience working within a culture of best practice within a community of practice.
Experience in the use of several of the following technologies: .NET Framework and .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, T‐SQL, Azure, Angular, Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerBI, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Flow, Dynamics 365.
Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with experience of building accessible, secure and scalable internet services that conform to WCAG.
Experience building and managing secure APIs and microservices that integrate with third‐party solutions and legacy systems
Experienced in the application of SOLID principles and the use of software design patterns that create sustainable solutions and support reuse
Experienced in best practice software development, Test Driven Development and with experience of using CI/CD pipelines and environments

Desirable education & qualifications:

Degree in a computing related subject or equivalent experience
Professional certifications in Azure or .NET development or Power Apps

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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)
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)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Salary range

£41,517 - £48,064 per year