UK Home Office Careers Near Me – Full Stack Developer

About the job

Closing: Sunday 16th October 2023

Changes are happening at UK Home Office we are not just about entry gates at Airports or issuing passports. We have over 30 different agencies and public bodies, including Policing and Counter Terrorism and with everyone using digital device’s technology is changing massively, we are bringing services in house, and it’s a big challenge.

As a Senior Full Stack Developer you will be working with modern technologies in cloud -based environments with other skilled people, collaborating and making things work for our end users, in some cases that’s the public and in others our own people who work at the Borders, Immigration or protecting the public via the Police National Computer system.

🚀 You’ll spend your time 🚀

Working with design teams and contributing to design systems like Home Office, Gov.uk and other common component sets. You’ll also have the opportunity to lead and drive teamwork for design and delivery of frontend features to meet user needs.

As a Senior Developer you’ll be:

• Delivering secure, reliable and scalable software in your team; undertaking a breadth of development tasks
• Designing new software using appropriate tools and in line with standards, proving designs through prototyping
• Reporting on system performance and supporting test activities; keeping documentation up to date
• Supporting services, you have delivered through regular maintenance activities, balancing your work with your leadership
• Working with other engineers to deliver new capability, for instance improved CI/CD pipelines or test approaches
• Act as a digital ambassador, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for Home Office to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc.

You should apply if you have experience in:

You’ll be a developer who is confident developing applications, passionate about making a difference and want to be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, and prototyping to execution, and shipping whilst having experience with:

• frontend or full-stack with modern web technologies such as: Front end – HTML, CSS and JavaScript, react / Back end – Java Spring, NodeJS, SQL and no SQL databases for example
• working within an agile environment
• knowledge of full software delivery lifecycle
• knowledge and experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
• environment – cloud-based approach (AWS, Azure, Docker and Kubernetes)

Some of the benefits our developers love 💜

• one of the higher starting salaries across the Civil Service
• a Civil Service pension with employer contribution rates of between 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the Queen’s Birthday, rising further with service
• flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing
• training and development opportunities tailored to your role
• an in-year bonus scheme
• a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• season ticket loans and rental deposit loans
• cycle to work and payroll giving
• employee discounts – including a huge number of retailers (via the Edenred platform), Microsoft Home Use programme and gym membership
• a variety of staff recognition schemes including thank you vouchers
• health and wellbeing initiatives including monthly mindfulness sessions
• staff support networks
• maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
• maternity and adoption support leave (paternity leave) of 2 weeks full pay
• up to 5 days paid leave for volunteering
• study leave and support for studying for a qualification or other accredited development relevant to your role